Samxon on Mac Pro

[dogbait129]

When the Mac Pro first came out last year it came with Rubycon caps on the motherboard here .

You can seem them on the left. However I noticed that mine which is a week old, has Samxon GD(M) 16v 680uF caps instead of the Rubycon ones. Need I worry about this? I would have thought that a Xeon board would use Sanyo or Nichicon throughout like my beloved Supermicro X5DAL-TG2 does (now that was a quality board).

There've been quite a few articles about Apple's standards falling - or is this a case of Samxon being a rising star in the capacitor world?

[Spacedye69]

Re: Samxon on Mac Pro

Samxon are sold here at Badcaps!!! Nuff said.

[willawake]

Re: Samxon on Mac Pro

samxon looks like the rising star. we are yet to see complaints about quality and hope that they dont let quality slip. presently i would say not to worry at all about your machine. from what i have seen apple uses known quality brands and typically a suprisingly large amount of caps. Still at the high prices they charge it could be commented that they should use polymer caps.

[Big Pope]

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In my situation, i am nice to hear Apple knows Samxon caps.

[Topcat]

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Failing apples tend to have Nichicon HM or HN series caps, I see them from time to time. I've been running samxon's in test systems and selling them for quite some time, they hold up well.

As for the X5DAL-TG2, I have one myself. Great boards!

[dogbait129]

Re: Samxon on Mac Pro

willawake, too right apple should use more expensive caps! It reminds me of a story I read about how mainboard manufacturers determine how many capacitors to put on their boards - they'll test them until they have just enough capacitors to cause the board to fail. And then add an extra cap.

Don't know if it's true or not, but market theory would suggest they'll do what they can get away with!

Topcat, I'm surprised to hear that Nichicon were the culprits. Was the HM/HN series made by a 3rd party or counterfeit?