USB Linux & successful recap!

[bigbeark]

My PCI USB card arrived today from HK. It uses the NEC chip. Installed it and it worked!
Unlike the VIA device I was attempting to use.

This is for my Dual-370 Asus CUR-DLS board, that I totally recapped, but the onboard USB ports were dead.

I can't believe how responsive this board is after a recap - like night and day! I used Rubycons throughout.

[shovenose]

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am i understanding that youre getting a performance increase from a recap. didnt know it was possbile...ok well glad it works well

[yyonline]

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am i understanding that youre getting a performance increase from a recap. didnt know it was possbile...ok well glad it works well

It's possible if the board was malfunctioning due to bad caps. Replacing the caps restores the board to its original performance level.

[ratdude747]

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if overclocking, new caps have been known in some cases to stabilize core voltages, resulting in a better overclock... so yes, recapping can boost a board's performance past when it was new (not all the time)

[shovenose]

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Via sh!t suckw

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

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Thought you had more useful things to say after your 3-day vacation.

Sure VIA might not be the best thing since sliced bread but for some types of systems they are the only choice. Intel clobbered the i815 to only take 512MB SDRAM maximum so that the POS Pentium 4 can sell. Otherwise it had all the goodies, USB 2.0, ATA133, AGP 4x. Well, at that time, VIA made chipsets with all that AND support for 4GB.

[PCBONEZ]

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It would be a rare i815 board that had USB 2.0 on-board.
I'm not even aware of any.
.

[Agent24]

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Only VIA thing I have ever had issues with was Ethernet controllers.

[Wizard]

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There are many problems when there's high bandwidth devices in use and VIA cannot cope with it due to internal design not designed properly.

That what happens very often with creative audio cards.

Cheers, Wizard

[shovenose]

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My first lga775 system was a core2 e6600, which is nice (better thsn usually what i have), but it was bottlenecked by VIA SHITSET(oops i meant chipset),...

I have used via stuff sccessfully. But i still prfer not to

[stj]

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i'v never had a problem, maybe it's drivers.
what i DONT like is Intel chipsets.

and most dead boards i see are intel chipset p4 junk.

[PCBONEZ]

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and most dead boards i see are intel chipset p4 junk.

Height of the bad caps era.
Imagine that...

I've never had -significant- problems with Intel or VIA chipsets.
Maybe a minor annoyance here or there I had to work around, but nothing major.

I don't trust SIS or nVidia at all. I don't consider them keepers.
If one shows up that works I flip it on to someone else. [Sell it.]
.

[mockingbird]

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CUR-DLS...

I saw a guy running 2 x Tualatins on that with some modified slotkets. He used thin but highly dense copper heatsinks so that the first slot would fit. I wonder if his page is still on the net. 2 x 1.7ghz Tualatins.... Drool. I bet it would show my Prescott a thing or two.

[PCBONEZ]

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A Pentium M is basically a Tualatin reworked for laptops.
Plenty of MODT boards take them and you get up to 2.16GHz, native USB 2.0, 400 or 533 FSB, DDR or DDR2, and low power use.
[And it will show your Prescott a thing or two.]
Most of them [Pentium-M MODT boards] use i855GM, i855GME or variants of the i915 chipset.
.

[stj]

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yep, SiS is bin material, i just desolder the battery holder, fets & any other interesting stuff like sata sockets & bin them.

same with PC-Chips crap.

i dont mind Nvidia as long as they arent cooked, i just put a big copper sink & fan on them and they seem o.k.
although i noticed within seconds the first time i got one that you burn your damned fingers on the original laughable sink.

[Agent24]

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SiS are lame\slow chipsets, but they do work. I mean, forget overclocking etc I guess but for the most part they are just fine.

I reckon most people hate them because they are cheap, and thus go on cheap boards with cheap capacitors etc which is not the fault of SiS.

[stevo1210]

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It would be a rare i815 board that had USB 2.0 on-board.
I'm not even aware of any.
.

it was the i845 with the ICH4 southbridge that started off with USB 2.0. an i845 with say an ICH2 southbridge did not have USB 2.0 support.

[shovenose]

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my hp thin client 1ghz "geode" amd cpu, fanless pc has a sis chipset. the chipset runs far hotter than the cpu. wierd huh?

[ratdude747]

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that has more to do with heatsinks... chipset heatsinks tend to run hot... i have fan modded them before...

ps- YAY! post #4500

[shovenose]

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yay! post 932

edit: notice something odd about my post count numbers in the following screen shot?

edit2: its a jpeg btw