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This seems dumb to me, it just moves parts of the power supply to the motherboard. Now if there's a power problem you have to replace the entire motherboard ins
by RedShift1 3y ago
This seems dumb to me, it just moves parts of the power supply to the motherboard. Now if there's a power problem you have to replace the entire motherboard instead of just the power supply. In a couple of years you'll have an old motherboard with no new replacement options, if it fails you basically need a new computer because newer motherboards aren't compatible with your current CPU/RAM...
- teraflop 3y agoMost of the motherboard's power consumption is dedicated to supplying the CPU, and that already relies on the motherboard to step down from 12V to ~1V at a very high current. The demands on the 3.3V and 5V rails are pretty small in comparison. This change is unlikely to make motherboards significantly more failure-prone than they are now.
- zx8080 3y ago> ...it just moves parts of the power supply to the motherboard. Intel produces motherboards, especially server-side, and has significant amount of profit from it, much less margin they get from PSUs. So it just increases profit for Intel. Consumers will likely to pay more for nothing.
- Saris 3y agoTo be fair the CPU voltage regulators are already there, all this would require is adding a small 5V and 3.3V stage on as well. Since most of the power goes to the CPU.