ASUS P5P800 with bad caps

[NWArcher]

My board will be RMA'd for the second time very soon. The first time it went back it had about 8 swelled caps. Sorry I can't remember the brand. I received a recapped replacement board, but they did not recap the entire board, just the bad caps. I now have a board with Rubycons (the replacement caps) with a mix of Ltec (currently bad and swelling), and Ost and GSC caps (not swelling, but suspect). This is the first ASUS board I've ever had issues with. I'm considering not sending it back to them and recapping it myself. I don't solder very much though and I'm concerned I just may kill the board trying.

In the past few days, I've read a lot on these forums and learned a lot from many of you. Thanks! Any advice would be appreciated though...

[gonzo0815]

Re: ASUS P5P800 with bad caps

Until you don`t have a proper soldering iron (betwen 60 and 80w, depending onthe quality) and at least the basic soldering skill, i don`t advise an recap. If there is warranty, i would not bother to send it away, as long as it isn`t to expensive (shiping etc). This is very bad service from Asus, selling bad caps and then refuse to fix it right. Seems to me, that there are some people incharge by ASUS, wich want to ruine the brand for some fast bucks.

[UraBahn]

Re: ASUS P5P800 with bad caps

Maybe Topcat can help you if you're in the US?

If you're feeling brave though, try putting on some Rubycon MBZ or MCZ. Other good Japan-icons to try are Chemicon KZE (I wouldn't trust the KZG too much though recently), Panasonic FC and FM. Some have amazing results with Samxon GC, mainly in the overclocking department. (Only one Samxon fail that I can remember, and that was most likely due to excessive heat. But high heat can kill even Rubycons with disgusting ease.)

Total bummer for me though to hear that Asus is using GSC of all caps. And all this after I got through recommending ASUS to friends and family.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: ASUS P5P800 with bad caps

I can't recall seeing any GSCs on Asus motherboards.

[c_hegge]

Re: ASUS P5P800 with bad caps

I've seen a few small GSCs on ASUS motherboards

[PCBONEZ]

Re: ASUS P5P800 with bad caps

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...9&postcount=21

Asus has never had a problem with using GSC/Sacon/Evercon, they just prefer OST.

GSC went *poof* around 2003-2004[ish] and reappeared as Evercon and Sacon.
Evercon and Sacon [at least their site] went *poof* in late 2008/early 2009.

The owner of GSC/Sacon/Evercon isn't a manufacturing icon. [He owns distribution type businesses. That's what he does.]
Manufacturing of GSC/Sacon/Evercon caps was appearently outsourced to Capsun.
Capsun is a HUGE manufacturer of caps but you never hear about them because their primary business is building caps for other companies.
http://www.szcapsun.com/en/Products_pt.asp?id=1

I suspect some OST and some G-Luxon are also outsourced to Capsun.
[Which means at least some of the OST Asus uses might as well say GSC.]
I suspect that because I've seen a collection of boards with mixed Capsun, OST, GSC, Evercon, and G-Luxon caps in which all the caps [regardless of branding] had the same abnormality in the vent.
In that mix of manufacturing names Capsun is the only one that doesn't outsource, meaning they are the likely source.
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[brethin]

Re: ASUS P5P800 with bad caps

2 year old thread bump, but yes the caps should be fine on that P5P800. They used OST and Chemicon KZE on alot of P4C800 boards without issues as long as the heat wasn't a factor.

[trodas]

Re: ASUS P5P800 with bad caps

So I do wonder, is the Asus P5P800 using OST caps near the CPU (Vcore regulator)?
Or they are Chemi-con KZE or something else?

Since judging from this thread: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6944
It looks like they used Elite caps.

Now is not Elite making polymers these days?!

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