Some interesting Motherboard Tests of VRM Stages

eeii said:
The only thing I would say is a lot of the reviewers test on open benches where the air flow is non existent so some of the temps are a tad high compared with in a half decent case with air flow.
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Fair point although the room was at a known temp.

Besty said:
yeah you do get what you pay for, worth keeping in mind that you can only test what is in front of you all these boards are mid-tier boards or in case of godlike mid-tier with bells, there are no OC class boards in this test from Asus, MSI or Asrock.
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The Asus Tuf is a £200 board, so reasonable budget for an X570. The Hero Vii is definitely what I regard as mid range, I didn't notice but isn't that AS Rock? Personally I won't be overclocking although I don't see any issues with the boards I mentioned.

Board choice has to be careful atm as there are issues with boost clock with many motherboards atm. There are vids on YT about this. I guess choice depends on where your priorities lie. However, in my experience, the item that fails on most MB's is the power caps. Unless you're going SLI, there's plenty of power on those boards for running even a gaming rig + 2080ti.
 
EsaT said:
Little airflow won't make those 100C running VRMs good.
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I agree. If anything an open bench with fans will be cooler as the room temp is a constant (which is why they test on an open bench), whereas in a case the temps can be hotter than ambient room temp and will potentially climb over time until the point at which the cooling and ventilation stabilise the case temp.

Michael, There's nothing wrong with replacing VRM thermal pads, but 1; who wants to do this on their brand new mb potentially voiding the warranty and damaging it if you get the seating and heat transfer wrong with the new thermal pads / paste, especially if it's an expensive one and 2. why would you do it when you can simply buy a better model in the 1st place? Another mid range board choice that didn't come out as well as the 2 I mentioned above is the Taichi. Cheaper than the Hero VII but more expensive and than the TUF. There are choices without modding boards and personally the last action I want to be making on a brand new motherboard is modifications.
 
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