Having a little difficulty making up my mind about this one. Completely new with this badcaps business as well.
The patient is an about 1 year old Aopen XC cube EZ-18 -110.
Slight stability problems with hangs, reportedly using google picasa. Getting a fairly good impression using the machine, snappy performer in XP, no "thinking pauses", error messages in the event viewer and the crashes need not be related. Box maybe run a little hot, and the cpu cooler fan which these are stacked around was I'd say 50 when opening the box. Maybe up to 60 there but cooling is working and there is a fan pointing down there, I actually figger temps are mostly all right and more like 40-ish. It is overclocked from 333 to 390, but the box is specified at running ddr400 with the correct (socket A) proc. Not overvolting any part of the computer. Stable (tested) oc. I don't think there is a good way of measuring voltage or temps reliably from windows with this, but they seem reasonably stable in bios.
No smell or visible goo. No bulging, but quite heavy bending on all of this type in the hot zone and sligth bending on another besides the ram.
Small ones are rubycons, there are a few big green ones that seem ok, and then the bent ones are identical to the chemicon in the end of the badcaps photo thread, if they are fake they are darn similar.
Writings horizontally:
6.3 V
2200 uf
rectangle-ish symbol and kzg
And vertically (90 on the board)
(m) 105[degree symbol] C
3171
NK
Kzg
Logo is similar to the kzg, and top.
I have some other images although not very excellent ones in a gallery:
here
Now the tricky part is that it is possible they were bent when I got them from the heat sink being loose, which it was on one of two of these I built. I don't remember them being that bent though. I mean I don't remember them being bent at all, then I wasn't looking for it.
What do you think, have they crapped themselfes? Or could they be fine? I understand they are not badcaps, but how un-badcaps are they?
Would I have noticed more significant symptoms if they were as bent from bad caps? And can I diagnose it without the electronic equipement?
I should say that I read this site fairly extensively, searched and read the rules as well, so I have the base concepts.
Very grateful for all input!
The patient is an about 1 year old Aopen XC cube EZ-18 -110.
Slight stability problems with hangs, reportedly using google picasa. Getting a fairly good impression using the machine, snappy performer in XP, no "thinking pauses", error messages in the event viewer and the crashes need not be related. Box maybe run a little hot, and the cpu cooler fan which these are stacked around was I'd say 50 when opening the box. Maybe up to 60 there but cooling is working and there is a fan pointing down there, I actually figger temps are mostly all right and more like 40-ish. It is overclocked from 333 to 390, but the box is specified at running ddr400 with the correct (socket A) proc. Not overvolting any part of the computer. Stable (tested) oc. I don't think there is a good way of measuring voltage or temps reliably from windows with this, but they seem reasonably stable in bios.
No smell or visible goo. No bulging, but quite heavy bending on all of this type in the hot zone and sligth bending on another besides the ram.
Small ones are rubycons, there are a few big green ones that seem ok, and then the bent ones are identical to the chemicon in the end of the badcaps photo thread, if they are fake they are darn similar.
Writings horizontally:
6.3 V
2200 uf
rectangle-ish symbol and kzg
And vertically (90 on the board)
(m) 105[degree symbol] C
3171
NK
Kzg
Logo is similar to the kzg, and top.
I have some other images although not very excellent ones in a gallery:
here
Now the tricky part is that it is possible they were bent when I got them from the heat sink being loose, which it was on one of two of these I built. I don't remember them being that bent though. I mean I don't remember them being bent at all, then I wasn't looking for it.
What do you think, have they crapped themselfes? Or could they be fine? I understand they are not badcaps, but how un-badcaps are they?
Would I have noticed more significant symptoms if they were as bent from bad caps? And can I diagnose it without the electronic equipement?
I should say that I read this site fairly extensively, searched and read the rules as well, so I have the base concepts.
Very grateful for all input!
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