ASRock X58 Extreme6 Motherboard
Voltage Regulator
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The ASRock X58 Extreme6 comes with a 10-phase voltage regulator circuit. Of the 10 available phases, eight are used to generate the CPU main voltage (Vcc, a.k.a. Vcore), while the other two are used to generate the voltage required by the integrated memory controller, the QPI controller, and the L3 memory cache (VTT). Therefore, this motherboard has an “8+2” configuration.
The manufacturer added a passive heatsink on top of the transistors of the voltage regulator circuit, which is connected to the passive heatsink of the north bridge chip through a heatpipe.
Figure 9: Voltage regulator circuit
Figure 10: Voltage regulator circuit
All capacitors used on this motherboard are solid and the voltage regulator circuit uses ferrite chokes, which are better than iron chokes. Please read our Everything You Need to Know About the Motherboard Voltage Regulator tutorial for more information.