VRM on Gigabyte Z97X-SOC and SOC Force

Does anyone here have information about how many phases (true or virtual) the SOC and SOC Force boards use in their VRM for the CPU?

Their website is very vague about this and I would like to know more precisely which VR module they use from IR.

 

Thanks,

 

SOC = 4 Phases, SOC Force = 8 Phases, all true, none virtual

Soc is a 4 powerphase board with IR3465B, digi vrm, and IR3553 (4) mosfets. ferrite chokes

Soc force is a 8 powerphase board with IR3580, digi vrm and IR3553 (8) mosfets. ferrite chokes

Thanks for the info!

I recently purchased the SOC board on sale and I was wondering if the 4 power phase would be something I should worry about not being enough. I do believe the IR3553 are quite high-end mosfets however.

How would it compare to say that ASUS z97-A that uses an ASP1252 controller with 4 true phases and doublers to get 8 digi phases?

well  basicly 4 powerphase should be totaly fine, remember that in terms of overclocking, you need to be lucky with the haswell cpu,  vrm is inside the chip it self. so it depends more on the chip how high you could get mostly. Basicly every Z97 board will overclock.