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What are the silver boxes that line both sides of the card? Huge Capacitors?
by randyrand 10y ago
What are the silver boxes that line both sides of the card? Huge Capacitors?
- smitty1110 10y agoFerrite chokes, part of the power delivery system.
- randyrand 10y agoWhy are they needed?
- 6d6b73 10y agoTo get rid of electrical noise.
- flamedoge 10y agoim assuming chip draws yuuge power
- Keyframe 10y agoYou're not wrong. 300W, holy shit.
- qb45 10y agoFor the same reason as around any other CPU or GPU and lots and lots of other chips: buck converter, i.e. 12V 20A DC in, 1.2V 200A DC out.
- hatsunearu 10y agoIt's part of a step down voltage regulator called a buck converter. The buck converter works by putting a pulse of energy into the inductor and stretching it out to lower the voltage. This creates the core voltage.
- hatsunearu 10y agoInductor, not chokes. Part of the buck converter to create Vcore.