Another poorly done recap job

[Dan81]

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Nah...I forgot about that old card.It has just 64mb VRAM,and I don't think it is supported under Windows 7.

Also,no,it's not Nichicon.The name of that cap is made of three words.

[ben7]

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...(I let you all guess what company made the 1500uf 6.3v caps on it.The name starts with N and ends with -on)...

Also,no,it's not Nichicon. The name of that cap is made of three words.

Nippon Chemi-Con

[Dan81]

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Right.
All the small 1500uf 6.3v caps were Chemicon KZGs.Now I use 3 caps for that ASUS A7V8X-X recap,all with the same specs:Sanyo WG,Nichicon HD (2000 datecode,safe) and some S.W caps from a Slot 1 board that was shot.

[c_hegge]

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Nichicon HD was never affected by the HM/HN disaster. All Nichicon HDs are safe.

That said, though, they are NOT a suitable replacement for KZG, as they have a higher ESR. The Sanyo WG caps are fine, though.

[Dan81]

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That dais, though, they are NOT a suitable replacement for KZG, as they have a higher ESR. The Sanyo WG caps are fine, though.

ASUS used them on the CUSL2-C,so I don't see anything bad in using them.All are of the same ratings.Same uF and same voltage.

I noticed that a PS2 50W PSU was posted on the PSU build pictorial.I got the same PSU and a Matushita built PS2 PSU,and I was surprised that on the Matushita,there wasn't any Panasonic cap,but all caps were Nippon Chemicon.

[c_hegge]

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Pentium 3 boards generally had much lower power requirements for the CPUs, and thus didn't require the caps to be as low ESR as subsequent boards. HD might might be perfectly fine for a P3 board, but I wouldn't use them for anything later.

[momaka]

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HD might might be perfectly fine for a P3 board, but I wouldn't use them for anything later.

Generally yes, but it also depends on the motherboard, too. For example, I have an ECS P4IBMS motherboard - that thing has IIRC either 8 or 10 cap spots on CPU VRM low side - all meant for 10 mm caps. The original caps in there were G-Luxon LZ, 6.3V 3300uF, and I believe there were only 6 or 8 of them on the board originally. A 6.3V 2700uF Chemicon KY in 10 mm diameter can already exceeds the specs of those G-Luxon LZs by a decent amount (0.031 Ohms ESR and 1910 mA ripple for the KY vs. 0.043 Ohms and 1400 mA for the LZ). So technically, I could have used just Chemicon KY (but of course, I used used 4x Nichicon HZ 6.3V 2200uF and 4x Rubycon MFZ 6.3V 2700uF instead because I have too many. Overkill for a 60-80W TDP Willamate/Northwood P4 CPU... maybe ).

[Dan81]

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Well,that's all I have.
When I'll have time I'll add the last 2 caps on the board,and see if it boots.
Also,is it good to replace a Teapo with a Rubycon YXG?

[c_hegge]

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It depends on what series the Teapo was. Ruby YXG are on par with Nichicon HE and Chemi-con KY.

[Dan81]

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I couldn't find any series written on that TEAPO.Anyways,I couldn't solder the cap to the video card.Strange thing is,the card still works!
Anyways,I scrapped on recapping the A7V8X-X and bought a complete pack consisting of a P4P800-VM (T-Systems OEM,caps are Rubycon and Panny everywhere!),a 2.4GHz Celeron D,and 4x 256MB DDR400 Kingston RAM.
I reinstalled 7 on the old 10GB HDD,as it wouldn't boot on the new system.Also,reflashed the BIOS to the latest retail BIOS(original was reading T-Systems BIOS 1015 LHM),but that after having a hard time installing 98 that didn't work on my 8GB old HDD,and ended up installing XP SP2 on FAT32 so I could access the drive from DOS.
Still,the CPU runs INSANELY HOT(81-85*C)yet it doesn't die at all.

[momaka]

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Still,the CPU runs INSANELY HOT(81-85*C)yet it doesn't die at all.

Sounds like either sensor error (if you are absolutely sure the heatsink is on the right way and there is thermal compound under it) or something is wrong with the heatsink installation and the CPU is thermal-throttling.

[Dan81]

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I am very sure I installed thermal compound under the heatsink and it is placed correctly.
It gets very hot,along with the northbridge heatsink,but I think the NB heatsink gets hot because it's very close to the HSF.