Asus Does Super ML Caps for Overclocking

[Guest]

108% increase should be 8% increase. Although 108% increase would be pretty sweet...

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]PanSola[/nom]"these capacitors are not only low in cost"I hope that means the cards would be cheaper than the older ones[/citation]
Of course not. Manufacturers just increase their profit margins.

 

[ceteras]

When Atom was announced, they said it will be extremely low cost, but still you have to shell 300$ if you want a mainboard with the "cheap" cpu.
OLED was also supposed to be cheap... to produce or something.
So, low cost means just that, cheap to make; the price we pay for it will always be set by offer/demand ratio.

 

[apache_lives]

pitty the most common cause of death in video cards is memory or the gpu contacts breaking causing artifacting and eventually death

wonder how much $$$ ASUS paid to place there add here

 

[Guest]

"the default core is increased 108-percent before overclocking"
---is it just me or is this statement misleading? why not just say increased by 8%? oh wait, thats because 108% looks more impressive albeit misleading

marketing, marketing. i'd be happy if they stated that an actual price reduction will happen because of this

 

[I]

There are a few errors in this report, though I'm sure the marketing dept. is to blame rather than the author.

The advantage of Super ML caps is it's higher capacitance density while retaining very low ESR. That's pretty much it. Now dispelling the rest.

Ceramic caps also remain stable under regular and AC voltage, they do not significantly age within the lifespan of the product (or 5X it), and we don't see them cracking from high thermal shock in normal situations, in fact ceramic caps are put right on the CPU and GPU carrier, because it and chipsets on mainboards, and other areas where heat resistance is desired and liquid electrolytic wouldn't survive as well as behing too high in esr and impedance at high frequency.

There is no significant generation of piezoelectric voltage in the computer circuits they're used on, they are not timing caps needing exact values and it's a pulsed switching circuit in the first place. If the claims were true then Asus themselves wouldn't be using such *problematic* ceramic capacitors on almost everything they build, if not everything.

It's mostly gobbledegook, the high capacitance and low ESR in a flat form factor allows it to be placed closer to the powered part when that part has a heatsink, compared to the height of a solid or electrolytic capacitor, reducing impedance between capacitor and powered part. This is a desirable thing, this may improve overclocking, but they went off the deep end of the BS pool when they knocked ceramic capacitors trying to make it seem like this is revolutionary.

Anybody can make a short polymer capacitor. Give Asus engineers credit for seeing a good use for them, but their deceptive marketing is a stain on their honor.