My sound card is a "Sound Blaster Live" and has some "wincap" capacitors i don't know that brand...is it good?!
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Re: Sound Blaster Live
Welcome WhizOriginally posted by whiz
Capacitors on a sound card, in general, aren't particularly likely to fail. As you will have noticed, the vast majority of all the "bad cap" cases reported on this site involve the VRM sections of motherboards or the secondary side of PSUs. So realistically, you're probably OK.
Still, Wincap is not a good brand as far as I can see. They're not very common - searching this forum turns up only a single hit, on this post - it's a mention of possibly failed Wincaps and Jamicons on, indeed, a Creative sound card:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showth...ghlight=wincap
A quick search in Google turns up a couple of references to failed Wincaps, in association with Lelon too - a notoriously poor brand.
Still, if sound card isn't giving problems, and the caps haven't obviously blown/expanded, I wouldn't worry. -
Re: Sound Blaster Live
Thank you Tiresia!
The first thing i did before posting...it was a search for "wincap" and i only found the thread you mentioned too...
i was very curious with this brand.Comment
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