remember this?? isn't there a 40 amp spec limit on them? correct?? #3 below has 8 VRMs and looks fine, the others pretty baked. So stop saying they werent needed.. perhaps not to power the chip but to regulate the power, yes
http://i.imgur.com/yDTHPNB.jpgAll 8 VRMs are not needed.
KnC shipped the first 4 VRM boards without knowing that they used 0.9V and over 50A.
Shipping the boards like this was an obvious mistake by KnC. Their production testing was not good enough to catch this. A bit of a noob mistake IMO. Measure the currents! Too high is bad, too low is bad!
But thanks to the overkill, expensive, components they have on the boards it could be fixed in the firmware.
This margin was a major part of the design to counter unpredictable problem like this,
the problem has been solved.
