are these caps bad?

[dood]

Okay, looking at an old Gigabyte 7ixe4 motherboard, which is still running completely stable after all these years. I purchased the board used from a friend, used it myself for two years with an Athlon 800 running at 920mhz, then dropped it back down to 800 and gave it to my sister, who has been using it for another two years.

This board is FULL of caps... I count 16 "K" vent 1200uf Sanyos, and 16 "+" vent 330uf GSC caps. They are all very short caps. My question is... do these GSC caps look like they're pushed up at all?



The one that is completely reflected out is totally flat on top. The other three that didn't reflect the flash seem to be domed up on each panel of the vent. But again... this board is probably 5 years old, and still working just fine. I'm just wondering if GSC were always crappy caps?

As long as it keeps running 'til my sister's birthday in May, we should be alright. I think we're all going to go together and build her a new machine then.

[willawake]

Re: are these caps bad?

they might be, they might not, sometimes the stamping of the vents makes it look like that from new. GSC is a pretty godawful brand though. but the board has been running for quite a few years now. i would have expected fails earlier.

since you have the majors as sanyo it will probably remain stable. keep an eye on it though. i think it will last until the birthday.