jmke

With the big focus on the environment and how much of a negative impact the 21st century society is having on it, it’s not surprising we are seeing things moving towards “green”. When we refer to green, we aren’t talking about the colour, we are taking about measures used to reduce the devastating impact we are having on the environment because of our industrialised society.

Computer companies are now starting to take the green initiative very seriously with new production methods to make them more environmentally sound. The first stages have already been implemented with the RoHS designs from GIGABYTE and ASUS, this is accomplished by moving from lead based solder to a totally lead free substitute, thus reducing the overall amount of lead required.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/13...ted/index.html

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jmke

Impressive differences between enabled/disabled modes. but the question is, if a system doesn't use all power phases even when under full load, why are they there? and could the cost not just be simply reduced by removing them completely? Or are the extra phases there to ensure future compatibility with more demanding CPUs?

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Kougar

12 phases have always been overkill, mostly used for marketing. It's really a dual 6 phase motherboard. Besides marketing purposes, OCed 65nm quads can draw up to 200watts from my experience.

wutske

Probably just-in-case and a nice extra for overclockers .