Gigabyte with bad Chemicon

[pfrcom]

Chemicon KZG don't like heat, judging by these 8 x 20 next to the heat sink

[pfrcom]

Re: Gigabyte with bad Chemicon

Replaced by salvaged Nichicon HM (I know, I know, undesirable, plus they are in the suspect date range) - missing one populated as well

Underside shows discolouration beneath the processor - strange seeing this GA-8ST800 is not supposed to support a hot running Prescott or Celeron-D

[ratdude747]

Re: Gigabyte with bad Chemicon

one word- overclocking. some dweeb must have been oc'ing that thing, and had too small a cooler.

those kz_ series chemicons are VERY heat sensitive.

[weirdlookinguy]

Re: Gigabyte with bad Chemicon

Hmmm, not always ratdude. We've seen these KZG's pop inside stock emachines.

[ratdude747]

Re: Gigabyte with bad Chemicon

well... emachines can have shit cooling. mine did... until i fixed it.

also, i was referring to the discoloration.

[weirdlookinguy]

Re: Gigabyte with bad Chemicon

In this particular case (because of the discoloration) it looks like either some pretty heavy duty OCing or a heatsink that was only making partial contact or perhaps a dead heatsink fan that went unnoticed or maybe a bad combination of more than one of those, but what I'm saying is that overclocking is only one of many reasons for why KZG would fail. We can't really generalize and blame it on OCing. OCing isn't bad when done properly, just ask acstech.

[ratdude747]

Re: Gigabyte with bad Chemicon

i know. i used to oc a p3 using a crap cooler, but my fan setup was good so it worked.