Phase Power & Quad Core

[Oblivion]

Hi guys,

Back into the PC building game after a 4 year break

I recently bought a GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3 and it seems great, currently OC'ing a i7 2600k to 4.4 GHz without any voltage increase and seems stable. (Might go higher with a voltage increase but at the moment its very fast and 62c under load, which seems great).

However, recently I noticed other boards in a similar price bracket boast 16 phase power. Is Gigabyte's 12 phase power true, as the other boards give some details such as their's are actually 12+4 (12 for CPU and 4 for GPU)? I can't find anything detailed on Gigabyte's website.

Does this make a real world difference when overclocking a Quad core? I don't plan on going nuts with OC'ing, as i want to maintain fairly decent temps and stability overall. I've heard the 24 phase power gigabyte boards are overkill, unless you get into serious water cooling and really take the OC to the extreme...

So, in a nut shell - is 12 phase's plenty for OCing a Quad core?

Many thanks,

Tom

 

[muriel]

Yes 12 phases has plenty of juice to OC your CPU unless you wanna go over 4.8 GHz i believe that u will need a better Board with more Phase to insure a 24/7 Stability

Nb: some chip could oC well and go until 5GHz Stable with this board because they required less voltage than usual so if your lucky to have one of this Good!!!

 

[Meaker]

Number of phases is pointless without knowing the design and quality of components used in its production.

4 extremely well built phases is better than 16 rubbish ones.