ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer Motherboard
Voltage Regulator
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The CPU voltage regulator circuit of the ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer has four phases for the CPU main voltage (VDD a.k.a. Vcore) and two for the CPU VDDNB (integrated memory controller, HyperTransport interface controller, and L3 memory cache) voltage. Therefore, it uses a “4+2” configuration, using a digital design.
The voltage regulator is controlled by a Richtek RT8894A chip. Each phase is driven by one PSMN9R1-30YL (“9130AL”) and one PSMN5R8-30LL (“5830DL”) transistors.
The voltage regulator circuit is shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Voltage regulator circuit
The ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer uses solid electrolytic capacitors. All coils on this motherboard are ferrite-core models, which can provide up to 20% improvement in efficiency.
If you want to learn more about the voltage regulator circuit, please read our tutorial on the subject.