Comment on Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica

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AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s a 250W+ part running at around 1V, so it’s going to draw a lot of current. Power is supplied via many pins on the back of the CPU, and they’re connected to many traces, so it’s not putting all that current through just one. It still puts out a lot of heat anyway, which is why modern motherboards have large heat sinks, sometimes with fans, on their VRMs.

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