majestyk wrote on 2022-11-21, 19:21:

The Soyo SY-5TF is a very nice board otherwise. To my surprise I found the cooling of the VRMs - at least when a regular CPU cooler is used - to be far more effective than I expected. The build quality is flawless and everything is designed with care.

Probably they (product managers) thought it wasn´t worth adapting the layout for a few years to come before the next mainboard generation took over.
But technically it´s a kind of "Fake Cache". 512K L2 cache are being reported by BIOS, 512MB RAM are supported and the HX chipset was promoted as being capable of caching all that RAM. But in fact it was reduced to the FX/VX level.

ah yeah, the VRM did pretty good but keep some air flow going over it. They don't need much but they need something, they get very hot without any air flow.