lay-z-boy said:
Surely that's the VRM?
According to this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_Interconnect
It is for agp use.
I'm confused now. :/
wiki is partially correct, its just not been updated.
i spend a lot of time on other forums, especially nzone and xs, so thats where i found out about this chip and wanted to know more about it.
the interesting thing is a poll was done somewhere and depending on the location of this chip it effected overclocking. if the chip was closer to the bottom of the card then overclocking results would be consistanly higher than if the chip was located at the top of the cards.
from what it looks like to me its some kinf od control or timing chip, with these gfx cards doing over 600mhz these days i rekon its got something to do with pci-e timing or flow control or something.
hence why we need someone to desolder thier off the card and see what happens.
may pick up a cheapo 8 series card just to experiment with.