Can better cooling fix a TERRIBLE 3-phase VRM

Can you fix a terrible 3-phase motherboard VRM by adding better cooling? WIll a cooler power delivery result in better overclocking?

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[NextMerckx]

One day a Dawid experiment is going to work flawlessly and yield amazing results on the first try...and I’m not going to know how to react.

[arc]

I would definitely want to see this on a cheap b450 board with no heat sink overclocking a ryzen 9 add some heat sinks and some 5000 rpm fans and see what happens

[aisle]

"Maybe they're just turning tricks on the street or whatever."
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[raffaelelagattolla]

Never thought I’d hear the phrase 'Wankers cramp' being used in a YouTube tech video, but here we are. You have a way with words.

[EmTekTube]

Love the effort of trying to polish a turd with the little heat-sink, but that was literally the worst AM3/AM3+ motherboard back when it was released. Unfortunately all the heat-sinks in the world can't fix poor power delivery and a bad VRM design lol

[Revener]

OCZ Storage Solutions was dissolved on April 1, 2016 and absorbed into Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc, which later then became Kioxia.

[arnavjuneja]

It would be great to see a video on cooling the vrm on a b450 motherboard! I’m planning on building a pc soon with a b450m motherboard and I’m thinking of cooling the vrm with raspberry pi heatsinks I have lying around in my house. Great video Dawid!

[therantman]

Dawid's nightmares are in low frame rate and constantly buffering LMAO

[stefanzlatanovic]

The effort you put into it, just for a mere performance boost. I love your channel man. Keep doing this, I never skip a beat of your videos.

[AnnaDoes]

It was so smart of you to put that cute lil cooler on the VRM modules - or whatever they're called :D

[tomvd]

The second you said, "terrible wankers cramp" I smashed the thumbs up

[mtcoiner]

Yes. Please do another video on like a B450 ds3h or something!

Also, Cheapo A320 boards look like they could use some cooling.

[Johnny_Kanuk]

OCZ went the way of the Dinosaurs. I had that ram in my I7 870 rig back in the day.

[picnic]

One of tricks I learned while trying to minimise system temps on the cheap was to completely reverse the airflow in the system starting with the rear case fan. Initially I used a peice of card as a baffle to ensure air was being pushed onto, rather than over, the VRM section board but later I worked out I could get much the same effect simply by running the rear case fan at a higher speed than the (reversed) fans on my CPU HSF (which created enough turbulance to splash air back onto the board). That approach would work a treat with one of those heatpipe heatsinks you're using in this video.

Btw, I expected that reversed airflow setup to have a negative effect on CPU temps but was suprised find the opposite was true, and I was stunned at just how dramatically temps dropped across the board (pardon the pun, ) when I flipped my case upside down (which, after flipping it around to get easier access to the ports, left me with a reversed, reverse-ATX system with reversed airflow. 🤨) The things you do in poorly insulated houses during Australian summers...

[rebelwithoutaclue]

I was always interested in doing this on my b350 so I would love to see it done on a b450 but if you could find a better heat sink maybe or thermal glue stuff maybe?

[VeritasEtAequitas]

VRMs are usually rated closer to 150°C absolute max, 120 sustained long term, and absolutely good to go < 100°C. You'll probably hit stability problems on CPU first with 3 phase power before you hit heat limits.

[Mini-z]

If you got any dead motherboards sitting around for socket 775, am3, am2+ etc..
You might be able too move one of those vrm heatsinks too this motherboard too get some mounting pressure, but otherwise not worth it in general.

[greggreg]

You could try with thermal glue, i would like to see a vrm thermal fix on a more gaming board, a b450 would ne perfect.

[MJ-uklu]

Since last video I knew that something was wrong with motherboard. There are no boards for AM3+ CPUs, that support 125 watt chips and don't have heatsinked 3+1 phases or at least naked 4+1 phases. I looked at Giga's website and it seems that board doesn't even officially support anything FX. So, it's likely not supposed to work with FX CPUs and if it does, then it is already strained past its optimal limits. Either switch to Phenom II chip or swap that board, because it is a fire hazard now.

Note about AMD chips: Phenom II chips can actually consume more power than FX chips, but there might be difference in their amperages. Also FX chips have more aggressive Turbo modes and they contribute a lot to obnoxiously high power consumption. It might be a good idea to turn off Turbo.

[Revener]

You need more subcribers, "you have the best words" :)