Hi,
I'm about replacing the VRM lyte caps on my board with polies.
I'm quite limited in height since 8 of 10 caps are located under the CPU heat sink (LGA 775 board from MSI) which leaves just 12mm headroom. The old caps where 10mm in height but I couldn't get caps that small here around and thus have to go with 11.5mm.
My question now is if the polies would benefit from actually touching the CPU cooler to get cooled. I don't know how warm they'll get by themselves.
In the past (board is 2.5 years old) CPU mostly ran at 35°C and only went to about 45°C under load. On the other hand the CPU itself is no power beast (Pentium E2180, i.e. low end Core2Duo) and the Seasonic S-12 has a quite stable signal. Am I right in my assumption that this means not much to do for the caps and they won't heat up themselves?
On the other hand I wonder why the lytes (OST, ESR of 0.029 mO according datasheet) have failed then in the first place (all bulged though not vented through the roof but blasted the rubber plug at the bottom) - besides the reason of being utter crap.
The replace procedure itself is no biggie, already did that successfully some time ago on another board but that hadn't cap size constraints and I used normal caps.
Thanks,
Robert
I'm about replacing the VRM lyte caps on my board with polies.
I'm quite limited in height since 8 of 10 caps are located under the CPU heat sink (LGA 775 board from MSI) which leaves just 12mm headroom. The old caps where 10mm in height but I couldn't get caps that small here around and thus have to go with 11.5mm.
My question now is if the polies would benefit from actually touching the CPU cooler to get cooled. I don't know how warm they'll get by themselves.
In the past (board is 2.5 years old) CPU mostly ran at 35°C and only went to about 45°C under load. On the other hand the CPU itself is no power beast (Pentium E2180, i.e. low end Core2Duo) and the Seasonic S-12 has a quite stable signal. Am I right in my assumption that this means not much to do for the caps and they won't heat up themselves?
On the other hand I wonder why the lytes (OST, ESR of 0.029 mO according datasheet) have failed then in the first place (all bulged though not vented through the roof but blasted the rubber plug at the bottom) - besides the reason of being utter crap.
The replace procedure itself is no biggie, already did that successfully some time ago on another board but that hadn't cap size constraints and I used normal caps.
Thanks,
Robert
Comment