VRM

[Gorge]

20 hours ago, mariushm said:

They're not "solid state" ... no such thing. They're polymer capacitors, which are better than regular (electrolytic) capacitors.

Pretty much everyone uses polymer capacitors these days because they prices for them went down.

 

The VRM is probably OK, for this type of motherboard it doesn't really matter.  There's minimal (if any) overclocking, and most of the processors it supports have 35w , 47w, 51w , 54w, 65w TDP ... they're basically processors which consume less than 50-70 watts of power. Even a vrm without heatsinks and with crappy mosfets would be capable of powering these processors without stress.

 

"ultra durable" is not something about reliability, it's a branding, like MSI's "military class" bullshit... it was Gigabyte's way of advertising at some point that they used circuit boards with thicker copper on them, and that they put more ESD protections  and other things that now are common from other manufacturers and pretty much standard everywhere else.

 So if it is thermally  equipment to last a long time how do you know 

[Xplo1t]

That motherboard was built to support a multi-gpu crypto-currency mining setup.  Typically with a low power Celeron or Pentium processor.  I used one myself for this purpose and would never build an actual desktop around it.