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  • keiichi77
    New Member
    • May 2004
    • 4
    #1

    Adding new caps/mosfet question

    I noticed that my motherboard has several empty cap holes on it and i was wondering what would happen if I filled them with caps, and of course what size caps to use. Specifically the ones arround the CPU socket. Here is a pic of my board.

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    Any ideas?

    Also I heard older Giga-byte boards had bad power mosfets on them, any info on this, where to get new ones?
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    • kc8adu
      Super Moderator
      • Nov 2003
      • 8832
      • U.S.A!
      #2
      the extra cap spots are to give the mfr an option of using several lower value caps or fewer high value.
      when vrm's fail it usually caps that cause it.
      looks like that board has crap caps.

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        • keiichi77
          New Member
          • May 2004
          • 4
          #3
          Yah they are crappy GSC caps, I have a GA-7VRX, and 2 GA-7VT600-P-L with bad caps (all GSC). And people keep telling me Giga-byte fixed the problem...HAHA
          I wish I knew about the cap issue before I bought my GA-7VAXP.

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