Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

[goodpsusearch]

Very bad design here. The caps are "Rifeking" and as you can see, 4 of them are touching the heatsink.

The card boots, but there are many little colour squares on the screen. Is it due to bad caps?

Is it going to be fixed after a recap?

And who is the maker of that card?

[kc8adu]

Re: Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

good chance a recap will fix it.artifacts are the most common result of bad caps on a gpu.
as for who made it?
best guess is hong kong flyapart video card inc.
yeah i know i stole sombodys quote.

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

I replaced the bulging caps but the artifacts remain.. So I should assume that the gpu or the ram is bad?

[brethin]

Re: Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

Best I can tell that is an older Club 3D (European company) card. And most likely the artifacts will be a memory or GPU issue. You could try underclocking it and see if the artifacts go away.

[shovenose]

Re: Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

what shape are the artifacts? screenshot?

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

They are little squares.

[stj]

Re: Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

may be gpu, if you push the ram you usually get a snowstorm.

[Agent24]

Re: Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

Is it just me or do the AGP contacts look corroded\extremely dirty?

Perhaps cleaning them will help.

I have had ethernet and other cards which wouldn't even detect in BIOS and their contacts were nowhere near as dirty as the ones on this card look.

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Unknown FX5200 Card with bad caps

It's because of the digital cam's flash.