@tk @toast well why trust a psu over a motherboard then? They're both consumer electronics
the motherboard people have a great handle on advanced power delivery to design their VRMs and decoupling up to several hundred megahertz, they have to be good or the CPU plain doesn't work
so if I were to trust someone to do value engineering with the right tradeoffs it'd be the motherboard people really
the motherboard people have a great handle on advanced power delivery to design their VRMs and decoupling up to several hundred megahertz, they have to be good or the CPU plain doesn't work
so if I were to trust someone to do value engineering with the right tradeoffs it'd be the motherboard people really
@tk @toast but by far the most complex power supply in the system is already *on* the motherboard, that's what VRMs are!
Guaranteeing insanely low ripple specs at 1.1V and designing the PDN impedance up to several hundred megahertz to be <25mOhm is a very hard task, especially to a budget. A lot harder of a task than designing a 12V to 3.3V and 5V converter with an order of magnitude or two looser tolerances.
Guaranteeing insanely low ripple specs at 1.1V and designing the PDN impedance up to several hundred megahertz to be <25mOhm is a very hard task, especially to a budget. A lot harder of a task than designing a 12V to 3.3V and 5V converter with an order of magnitude or two looser tolerances.
