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Beefier VRMs on the mainstream Intel platform has been more of a marketing feature than anything for the last couple generations since the chips are so power efficient. With the power draw of OCed Skylake-X it matters though, and the X299E-ITX/ac has such limited space for the VRM section that I doubt it will OC as well as anything other than the cheapest X299 ATX boards.


That said, if it's a proper SFF case you very well may run into thermal limits for a heavy OC before VRM limits.




In an dual-row 8-circuit wire-to-board configuration it's rated for 10A on 16 AWG wire and 8.5A on 18 AWG, at a maximum temperature delta of 30°C over ambient. http://www.molex.com/pdm_docs/ps/PS-45750-001.pdf (page 6)


Which works out to 480W and 408W respectively. So there's not quite as much leeway but should still be plenty, short of LN2 overclocking.