i have 3 antec truepower psu's here that I'm working on re-capping. I fixed a monitor last week that kind of got me in the mood. My budget is tight, and I have the time, so i figure spending 20-30$ rather than spending 150$~ on replacing 3 psu's isn't a bad idea, gives me something to do too.
I have a thread on another forum, its easier to just link, but this might give you guys an idea of what I have going on here. to be honest, I'm kind of disapointed with Antec now, though I've had these for quite some time, and they have treated me well, but I don't think I'll buy antec anymore.
here's the other thread anyhow
http://forum.pcstats.com/showthread.php?t=72170
and now my main question really is about the 480w Truepower that I have, I'm sure its 5years old, and its only giving me grief now, which isn't too bad. But basically, I can't find any 10mm 4700uf / 10v caps, only 12mm. I'm sure I could squeeze one, maybe two 12mm caps in there, but I'm not sure about all 4. So I was wondering about maybe using some 3300uf caps.
But I'm not sure how that would affect the psu's overall capabilities, I'm sure it may not handle as high an output overall, but I'm only using it in an old athlon 1.2 with a geforce3, and when it does get swapped around into something else, its nothing more than an old P3, P2, K6 even, so it doesn't really need to do much. Besides, its not an ATX2.0 compliant, so I can't really use it on anything newer anyway
now this stuff I somewhat new to me too, so I don't really know too much about what I'm doing, other than so far its working out ok. I have a friend who knows a little more, the main advice he gave me to to look for gold rated caps. I called the local shops around, they only have cheaper generic stuff for the most part, so its looking like I'll be buy from badcaps, there seems to be a pretty good user base here that puts faith in them, so I'm going to give it a go and order everything here
I have a thread on another forum, its easier to just link, but this might give you guys an idea of what I have going on here. to be honest, I'm kind of disapointed with Antec now, though I've had these for quite some time, and they have treated me well, but I don't think I'll buy antec anymore.
here's the other thread anyhow
http://forum.pcstats.com/showthread.php?t=72170
and now my main question really is about the 480w Truepower that I have, I'm sure its 5years old, and its only giving me grief now, which isn't too bad. But basically, I can't find any 10mm 4700uf / 10v caps, only 12mm. I'm sure I could squeeze one, maybe two 12mm caps in there, but I'm not sure about all 4. So I was wondering about maybe using some 3300uf caps.
But I'm not sure how that would affect the psu's overall capabilities, I'm sure it may not handle as high an output overall, but I'm only using it in an old athlon 1.2 with a geforce3, and when it does get swapped around into something else, its nothing more than an old P3, P2, K6 even, so it doesn't really need to do much. Besides, its not an ATX2.0 compliant, so I can't really use it on anything newer anyway
now this stuff I somewhat new to me too, so I don't really know too much about what I'm doing, other than so far its working out ok. I have a friend who knows a little more, the main advice he gave me to to look for gold rated caps. I called the local shops around, they only have cheaper generic stuff for the most part, so its looking like I'll be buy from badcaps, there seems to be a pretty good user base here that puts faith in them, so I'm going to give it a go and order everything here
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