Motherboard HWinfo questions

[Rumman]

Can someone explain what are they meant in motherboard section of HWinfo (Chipset, VRM MOS, VSOC MOS)? 

[Jae Tee]

What do you mean? It is telling you the temps of said parts. Am I missing something?

[Rumman]

1 minute ago, Jae Tee said:

What do you mean? It is telling you the temps of said parts. Am I missing something?

What are they means? I know the temp of some parts have been mentioned. But, what are they actually refer?

[Jae Tee]

2 minutes ago, Rumman said:

What are they means? I know the temp of some parts have been mentioned. But, what are they actually refer?

Well the chipset refers to the...chipset, In this case the B450 chipset AKA. X470. VRM MOS and VSOC MOS, are both responsible for power distribution within the mobo, I think.

[Jurrunio]

Chipset is the B450 chipset below the heatsink on the right of the PCIe slots

 

VRM MOS is what powers the CPU cores, on the left of the socket and ferrite blocks

 

VSOC MOS is what powers the CPU north bridge and iGPU (if it has one), on the top of the socket and ferrite blocks

[Rumman]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Chipset is the B450 chipset below the heatsink on the right of the PCIe slots

 

VRM MOS is what powers the CPU cores, on the left of the socket and ferrite blocks

 

VSOC MOS is what powers the CPU north bridge and iGPU (if it has one), on the top of the socket and ferrite blocks

Can I see VRAM's temp (which supply power to AMD processor) with that software?

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, Rumman said:

Can I see VRAM's temp (which supply power to AMD processor) with that software?

VRAM is the video memory and only the video memory, I dont know what you're talking about

[Jae Tee]

4 minutes ago, Rumman said:

Can I see VRAM's temp (which supply power to AMD processor) with that software?

That'll be on your gpu. And those are def. NOT for supplying power.

[Rumman]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

VRAM is the video memory and only the video memory, I dont know what you're talking about

Sorry!!!!!!!! I Mean power house that give power to CPU.

[Rumman]

What are those called which are responsible to deliver power to the cpu and mostly covered with heat sink beside the cpu socket?

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, Rumman said:

Sorry!!!!!!!! I Mean power house that give power to CPU.

Both that reads MOS are related to that. Note sometimes sensors are inaccurate and to different levels (that 14C reading? lol)

[Jurrunio]

Just now, Rumman said:

What are those called which are responsible to deliver power to the cpu and mostly covered with heat sink beside the cpu socket?

VRM

[mariushm]

VRM = voltage regulator module.

 

There's a vrm controller chip (under the text that says VSOC in the picture below) which controls multiple groups of components that convert voltage from 12v to some lower voltage... think of these groups like cylinders in a car.

Each group has at least one hi side mosfet, one lo-side mosfet, at least one inductor and at least one capacitor. They work together to create the power the processor needs.

 

Hi-side mosfets , Lo-side mosfets  (these can be combined into chips called power stages) , inductors (those gray/black squares) and capacitors (those round silver things closer to cpu socket)

Chipset creates more pci-e lanes, contains usb controllers and sata controller (System on chip part inside CPU also contains a sata controller and a usb controller for some usb ports that go on io shield)

Chipset also connects sound card, network card and other onboard stuff to the cpu.