Caps in my computer

[japlytic]

About two weeks ago, I decided to check the electrolytics in my system.

* An Asus A9600XT video card with Sanyo electrolytics. It once gave a false core voltage reading, and is now fixed - perhaps from reseating the card?

* An AVerMedia satellite tuner with CapXon electrolytics which were still good, used in the DC-DC step-up converter for the LNB voltages.

* A Twinhan digital TV card with "REC" brand capacitors (most likely to be general purpose, but were not causing any trouble at all.

* On the P4P800 Deluxe board, there were Nippon Chemi-Con capacitors near the CPU, with a few OST units, and a few GSC units (Fortunately not used near the CPU, but were used for bypassing, and probably used for audio as well).

The power supply (LC-B400ATX) is mentioned elsewhere.

How good are the capacitors in your computer?

[Chris1992]

Re: Caps in my computer

My system:
GeForce FX5200: Sanyo lytics, with one Skywell 510uF 4v.
Dell Dimension 8300 board: Rubycon, Nichicon, Chemicon, with a few Fujitsu RE.
Creative emu10k1: small G-Luxon.

Systems I'm responsible for:
4x HP Brio PC uATX: Chemicon and some other brand I don't remember.
2x Asus P4B533: Chemicon and Rubycon, with some OST.

[Topcat]

Re: Caps in my computer

OST's are crap, period. Shame on Asus for using them. I have a an Asus P4C800 (I think thats it) sitting at the shop packed with bad OST's.

My personal system:
Supermicro X5DAL-TG2 - All Sanyo/Nippon caps!
ATI 9800 AIW Retail - I never really looked at it, but the original ATI retails are well built.
Zippy Double redundant 800W PSU - Never had it apart, so I dont know. I'll make a note of it next time I dust out the system. Zippy makes a kick ass PSU, so they can't be too bad.

[Newbie2]

Re: Caps in my computer

About two weeks ago, I decided to check the electrolytics in my system.

* An Asus A9600XT video card with Sanyo electrolytics. It once gave a false core voltage reading, and is now fixed - perhaps from reseating the card?

* An AVerMedia satellite tuner with CapXon electrolytics which were still good, used in the DC-DC step-up converter for the LNB voltages.

* A Twinhan digital TV card with "REC" brand capacitors (most likely to be general purpose, but were not causing any trouble at all.

* On the P4P800 Deluxe board, there were Nippon Chemi-Con capacitors near the CPU, with a few OST units, and a few GSC units (Fortunately not used near the CPU, but were used for bypassing, and probably used for audio as well).

The power supply (LC-B400ATX) is mentioned elsewhere.

How good are the capacitors in your computer?

L&C LC-B400ATX? Those are bad 400W power supplies! Look at the very low-quality internals of one:



The capacitors in my system? Here they are:

PCCHIPS M955G Motherboard: All caps are made by OST, still not one bad!
Enermax 300W PSU: All caps are made by PCE-TUR, still not one bad!
XFX FX 5500 Video Card: One Sanyo OS-CON, rest Evercon caps, still not one bad!
5-Port USB 2.0 PCI Card: All caps are generic, still not one bad!

[Chris1992]

Re: Caps in my computer

Newbie2, can you post some pics of PCE-TUR caps? We don't have any on the forum IIRC.

[yanz]

Re: Caps in my computer

PCE-TUR?

i remember saw it on a monstrous PCp&C psu. i'll dig for some pics.

[yanz]

Re: Caps in my computer

here it is..

a user (Electron Chaser) on ocforums has modified this big wtx psu into atx psu..

full story: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=347137
the caps: http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php...1&postcount=96





perhaps 10000uF is more than enough

[kc8adu]

Re: Caps in my computer

looks like jpcon.

[Chris1992]

Re: Caps in my computer

looks like the P is a J and P stuck together.

[Newbie2]

Re: Caps in my computer

I now have two guys who use crappy PCE-TUR capacitors, Enermax and PC Power & Cooling! I have saw some PCE-TUR caps in a Bestec PSU, so that makes three!

[Rainbow]

Re: Caps in my computer

I've checked caps in my PC today:
Asus P2B board - Rubycon and Sanyo
PowerColor AR2L Radeon 9100 - Panasonic through-hole and unknown SMD caps
DTK PTP-3007 PSU - CapXon (the big ones), G-Luxon (outpout filtering) and those (J)PCE-TUR (some of the other) - no problems with any of them - I like these PSUs as the construction is good and fan quiet
(anyone seen bad (J)PCE-TUR cap?)

[Spacedye69]

Re: Caps in my computer

Compaq Asus Scket 462 mobo OST
MS6191 slot a Rubycon
EP8KTA3 GSC 6 are bulging-flaky mobo
A&V333 liitle OST and big Nichicon HM(M) in vrm- no post, beep, nothing
FX5200 GPU G-Luxor

[kc8adu]

Re: Caps in my computer

I've checked caps in my PC today:
Asus P2B board - Rubycon and Sanyo
PowerColor AR2L Radeon 9100 - Panasonic through-hole and unknown SMD caps
DTK PTP-3007 PSU - CapXon (the big ones), G-Luxon (outpout filtering) and those (J)PCE-TUR (some of the other) - no problems with any of them - I like these PSUs as the construction is good and fan quiet
(anyone seen bad (J)PCE-TUR cap?)

i have seen plenty.
found several exploded in an a power(crap) psu.
looks like the vent wasnt stamped right so they blew their bottoms out.

[incapacitance]

Re: Caps in my computer

PCE-TUR?

i remember saw it on a monstrous PCp&C psu. i'll dig for some pics.

Wait, so even PCP&C uses bad caps? This is insane...

[Chris1992]

Re: Caps in my computer

My secondary box:
Chemicon KZE 1200@16 for VRM input
Rubycon MBZ 3300@6.3 for VRM output
one GSC 680@6.3 for audio
Chemicon TMZ 1000@6.3 all over

[banimal]

Re: Caps in my computer

I have a xfx motherboard that was frying video cards right and left. I have looked at all the caps and I don't see any that look bad how can I test them , none of then are bloated or leaking.....

[toastygoodness]

Re: Caps in my computer

sounds like its your power supply rather than your motherboard.