Only old boards have badcaps....Right? (Discussion)

[Chris1992]

mod note : this thread split of from the FAQ thread of the same name, in order to discuss the issue of recent boards with badcaps.

all well and good to see recent intel p4 boards w/ badcaps. would like to see
amd64 boards with them.

[willawake]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right?

chris can you pick out some more threads for recent photos. esp amd cos i am not familiar with the board model names. just post here

[Chris1992]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right?

Actually I haven't seen any AMD64 mainboards with badcaps on this forum.

[willawake]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right?

we have no recent (in range of p4 socket 478 or later) amd boards with badcaps on the forum?

[Chris1992]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right?

I was just about to post that. You beat me by a few seconds. Stupid dialup... anyway that Medion board is made by MSI.

EDIT: No, AFAIK we do not have recent AMD boards with badcaps.

[Fatal0E]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right?

See p4 boards all the time with badcaps, have not yet seen a64 boards with blown caps, but its just a matter of time. My theory is the p4 which uses so much power puts more load on the caps? Not an engineering person so I don't know this for fact.

[Chris1992]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right?

Interesting theory Fatal0E.

[Rainbow]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right?

P4 also produces much heat. And many new boards use very cheap components.

[Newbie2]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right?

P4 also produces much heat. And many new boards use very cheap components.

I'm guessing the cheap components are there because the manufacturer wants to save some cash and make the overall product cheaper and plus have lower quality.

[arneson]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right? (Discussion)

The trend for many companies is cheap cheaper cheapest.
Consider the user, theres grandma who turns on her computer for twenty minutes everyday to read some mail and get a recipy, and theres that mail server pounding away 24/7, who's going to have bad caps?

[willawake]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right? (Discussion)

have not yet seen a64 boards with blown caps, but its just a matter of time

this is correct. i wanna see how these LGA775 and A64 boards are doing in a few years. we are only seeing the real trash like those ost on the ASUS P5GDC-V at present.

one of the other probs is that we only see a fraction of what is actually out there, from the people who actually seek assistance to recap. i see a lot of posts on forums where they are just pitching it into the trash and buying a whole new platform.

[willawake]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right? (Discussion)

posted by newbie2 on the other thread

You got a lot of good pics willawake. Hope they keep on coming. Mainly these are Socket 478 boards we're seeing have bad caps.
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[Rainbow]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right? (Discussion)

The trend for many companies is cheap cheaper cheapest.
Consider the user, theres grandma who turns on her computer for twenty minutes everyday to read some mail and get a recipy, and theres that mail server pounding away 24/7, who's going to have bad caps?

At (previous) work, we had 2 machines with Abit SA6R boards - a server and a workstation. The workstation was almost never used (a couple of hours per week), the server was running 24/7. Caps failed in both, first in the workstation, then in the server.

[willawake]

Re: Only old boards have badcaps....Right? (Discussion)

thats really interesting.

possible chemical reaction occuring over time not so dependent on use?