I have 5 8K7A's and had them all in for cap replacement, when they were past warrenty. Epox seems to do this, as long as you send them a check for $14.00 or so for return shipping. I bought 2 8RDA+'s when the 8K7A's were out being replaced, so I wouldn't be totally offline, but even they eventually started having cap problems. I used my reserve 8K7A to keep all my computers on while getting the caps replaced on the 8RDA+'s.
Now today I check them again, and sure enough, they are all developing buldges again. It seems Epox just replaced bad caps with more of the same crappy brand that is destined to fail again.
Is it even worth me paying UPS/fedex to ship these things back and forth for a second time? Does any motherboard maker actually claim to use caps that are known not to have any issues? Honestly it seems as if Epox is the best of all the motherboard manufacturers, even given what I said above. Every other brand is worse somehow - either more bad cap problems or just a low quality manufacturer to begin with.
Now today I check them again, and sure enough, they are all developing buldges again. It seems Epox just replaced bad caps with more of the same crappy brand that is destined to fail again.
Is it even worth me paying UPS/fedex to ship these things back and forth for a second time? Does any motherboard maker actually claim to use caps that are known not to have any issues? Honestly it seems as if Epox is the best of all the motherboard manufacturers, even given what I said above. Every other brand is worse somehow - either more bad cap problems or just a low quality manufacturer to begin with.
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