In addition, they consume less power at idle and can transition between load states much more quickly. Modern CPUs pack more cores than their predecessors, and the latest instruction sets allow them to crunch computationally dense workloads at an incredible pace. Those benefits led to phase-doublers becoming universally accepted in the industry, and they are still used for similar purposes today. The board's VRM was lauded for elegantly overcoming the power handling capabilities of components that were available at the time while also reducing voltage ripple. ASUS became the first manufacturer to implement phase-doublers with the A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, back in 2005.
