New Motherboard?

[genosmm]

Would like to get a new motherboard, but do not want it to fail just out of warrenty like my old one. Have been thinking how to test a new PC motherboard so it will fail as soon as possible if it has bad or marginal capacitors. You would think the board mfr would have been doing this all along!

So far have only thought of using the standard PC test apps but do not think the load will be high enough and/or long enough.

Appreciate any tips from anyone who has been able to achieve this seperation of good and bad cap motherboards.

Thanks

Gene OHara

[genosmm]

Re: New Motherboard?

Am wondering what you think of this burnin app? http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm and if it will put enough stress on the PS and Mobo to cause either to fail if has bad or marginal caps.

Gene

[willawake]

Re: New Motherboard?

forget it.

just inspect the motherboards in the shop to see if they have caps from rubycon, sanyo, united chemicon, nichicon etc. Another reason to support mom+pop stores rather than buying online.

we have seen some of the latest boards from ABIT, DFI, Gigabyte to have good caps. It is not guaranteed though, better to inspect first. Intel original boards usually have good caps if we exclude the problems with nichicon HN HM series that they had like Dell, Apple.

[Rainbow]

Re: New Motherboard?

No, you can't detect crappy caps when they're new. As they're new, they're good. The problem is that they became bad in a year (or half or two years - you never know).