Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme

**Newbie2** · 08-08-2011, 11:17 AM

Was looking around DealExtreme (online store from HK) today and saw these interesting caps, which they advertise are for motherboard use:

3300uF 16V Motherboard Electrolytic Capacitors (20-Piece)

16V 2200uf Motherboard Capacitors for Computer (20-Piece Pack)

1500uF 6.3V Motherboard Electrolytic Capacitors (20-Piece)

Two of the three fake Nichicons feature Teapo-style vents. I wonder how well these fakes will hold up on an actual motherboard...

**mockingbird** · 08-08-2011, 02:30 PM

The top ones look like resleeved Teapos (Judging by the vent).

**PCBONEZ** · 08-08-2011, 03:27 PM

Agree, those are re-sleeved Teapo.

Other than fakes the only other brand I've ever seen with that vent was Tayeh who *I believe* were a totally OEM brand. - Meaning *I think* Tayeh caps were made by Teapo for some other entity named Tayeh.
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**severach** · 08-08-2011, 10:23 PM

Genuine Nichicon RS aren't motherboard grade. These counterfeit Nichicon RS 3300uf 16v don't look 18x16 either.

**ratdude747** · 08-08-2011, 10:51 PM

WOW.

Now you know why I don't shop at dealextreme... Besides, for a lot of stuff geeks.com was a hell of a lot cheaper anyway... ebay is one thing, but this takes the cake.

**kc8adu** · 08-11-2011, 06:17 AM

i have seen boards come in with those fakes!
they had been somewhere else and were never stable.
and many were blown up again.never did find out who did these boards.
ahh dx!second to none as far as fakes and pure junk.even takes first place from ebay.

**Newbie2** · 08-11-2011, 06:47 PM

Funny how the 3300uf 16V fake Nichicon caps appeared on DealExtreme's "Gadgets of the Week" listing at the current time of this post:

[img]http://img842.**************/img842/4733/fakecapsdx.png[/img]

**Ami Sapphire** · 08-11-2011, 08:22 PM

@Newbie2
Wow. Just... wow.

@ratdude747
I don't shop at DealExtreme for the same reason.

**ratdude747** · 08-14-2013, 02:03 PM

Moved and stickied as these are still available from dx.

**shovenose** · 08-14-2013, 06:21 PM

wow that is a teapo

Good for PSU use maybe?

**Pentium4** · 08-14-2013, 07:39 PM

I would never install those Teapo in a PSU, Japanese or go home

**shovenose** · 08-14-2013, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pentium4

I would never install those Teapo in a PSU, Japanese or go home

But they're such a good price? And Teapo is fine for PSU

Like this Enhance 1U power supply I just took apart.

**japlytic** · 08-26-2013, 06:51 PM

The bung is a dead giveaway...

**ratdude747** · 08-26-2013, 06:57 PM

Probably fake teapo's... I doubt teapo would be that low or somebody that desperate to re-sleeve.

**cheapie** · 09-09-2013, 11:35 AM

Still better than a resleeved Fuhjyyu or whatever.

**Gianni** · 01-22-2014, 01:08 AM

A stupid question: but Nichicon can tollerate that someone sells fake caps with his brand?

**Per Hansson** · 01-22-2014, 02:19 AM

Try sending them a mail alerting them about the fact that DealExtreme sells these caps.
They (DX) are afterall a large reseller so maybe they will care...

**ReeceyBurger123** · 05-22-2014, 10:10 AM

Thanks for the post, I was looking on the site and I was suspicious but thanks for confirming this, has someone complained to the site ?

**kevin!** · 05-23-2016, 03:37 PM

Good copy of Nichicon

Now out jokes, it seems incredible that ridiculous copies are still sold on websites known :S.
Thanks for the warning!

kangmaz · 01-31-2017, 04:46 AM

Good for PSU use maybe?

08-08-2011, 11:17 AM	#1
Newbie2 Badcaps Veteran Join Date: Sep 2005 City & State: Halifax, NS My Country: Canada Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Complete Noob! Posts: 862	Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Was looking around DealExtreme (online store from HK) today and saw these interesting caps, which they advertise are for motherboard use: 3300uF 16V Motherboard Electrolytic Capacitors (20-Piece) 16V 2200uf Motherboard Capacitors for Computer (20-Piece Pack) 1500uF 6.3V Motherboard Electrolytic Capacitors (20-Piece) Two of the three fake Nichicons feature Teapo-style vents. I wonder how well these fakes will hold up on an actual motherboard... __________________ My gaming PC: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition 3.3GHz Six-Core CPU (Socket AM3) ASUS M4A77TD AMD 770 AM3 Motherboard PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB GDDR5 PCI-Express x16 3.0 Graphics Card G.SKILL Value Series 16GB DDR3-1333 RAM (4x4GB dual channel) TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 2TB 3.5" SATA HDD (x2) WD Caviar Green WD20EARX 2TB 3.5" SATA HDD ASUS Xonar DG 5.1 Channel PCI sound card Antec HCG-750M 750W ATX12V v2.32 80 PLUS BRONZE Power Supply Antec Three Hundred Mid-Tower Case Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit

08-08-2011, 02:30 PM	#2
mockingbird Badcaps Veteran Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,391	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme The top ones look like resleeved Teapos (Judging by the vent). __________________ "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them." -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

08-08-2011, 03:27 PM	#3
PCBONEZ Grumpy Old Fart Join Date: Aug 2005 City & State: Phoenix, AZ My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120V 60Hz I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 10,630	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Agree, those are re-sleeved Teapo. Other than fakes the only other brand I've ever seen with that vent was Tayeh who I believe were a totally OEM brand. - Meaning I think Tayeh caps were made by Teapo for some other entity named Tayeh. . . __________________ Mann-Made Global Warming. - We should be more concerned about the Intellectual Climate. - Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr Seuss - You can teach a man to fish and feed him for life, but if he can't handle sushi you must also teach him to cook. -

08-08-2011, 10:23 PM	#4
severach Badcaps Veteran Join Date: Aug 2007 City & State: Michigan My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Hobbyist Tech Posts: 982	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Genuine Nichicon RS aren't motherboard grade. These counterfeit Nichicon RS 3300uf 16v don't look 18x16 either.

08-08-2011, 10:51 PM	#5
ratdude747 Black Sheep Join Date: Nov 2008 City & State: Madison, IN My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 16,690	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme WOW. Now you know why I don't shop at dealextreme... Besides, for a lot of stuff geeks.com was a hell of a lot cheaper anyway... ebay is one thing, but this takes the cake. __________________ (Insert witty quote here)

08-11-2011, 06:17 AM	#6
kc8adu Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 City & State: dayton ohio My Country: U.S.A! Line Voltage: 12vdc,120/240vac,480vac 3ph on my bench I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 8,298	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme i have seen boards come in with those fakes! they had been somewhere else and were never stable. and many were blown up again.never did find out who did these boards. ahh dx!second to none as far as fakes and pure junk.even takes first place from ebay.

08-11-2011, 06:47 PM	#7
Newbie2 Badcaps Veteran Join Date: Sep 2005 City & State: Halifax, NS My Country: Canada Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Complete Noob! Posts: 862	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Funny how the 3300uf 16V fake Nichicon caps appeared on DealExtreme's "Gadgets of the Week" listing at the current time of this post: [img]http://img842.**************/img842/4733/fakecapsdx.png[/img]

08-11-2011, 08:22 PM	#8
Ami Sapphire Extreme Lurker Join Date: Sep 2010 City & State: Detroit, MI My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Hobbyist Tech Posts: 177	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme @Newbie2 Wow. Just... wow. @ratdude747 I don't shop at DealExtreme for the same reason. __________________ Recovering a BEFSR41 v1 and v2 router from solid red DIAG Light I have two v2s and one v1. I am still looking at these boards nearly every day. What I'm doing: Planning an upgrade of my mining setup from Block Erupters to Red Furys. Though, if the Block Erupters don't sell, I will keep using them for a while.

08-14-2013, 02:03 PM	#9
ratdude747 Black Sheep Join Date: Nov 2008 City & State: Madison, IN My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 16,690	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Moved and stickied as these are still available from dx.

08-14-2013, 06:21 PM	#10
shovenose Send Doge Memes Join Date: Aug 2010 City & State: Napa, CA. My Country: USA I'm a: Forum Junkie Posts: 6,418	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme wow that is a teapo Good for PSU use maybe?

08-14-2013, 07:39 PM	#11
Pentium4 CapXon Be Gone Join Date: Sep 2011 City & State: Idaho My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Hobbyist Tech Posts: 3,227	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme I would never install those Teapo in a PSU, Japanese or go home

08-26-2013, 06:51 PM	#13
japlytic Badcaps Veteran Join Date: Oct 2005 City & State: Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia My Country: Australia Line Voltage: 240VAC 50Hz I'm a: Hobbyist Posts: 2,011	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme The bung is a dead giveaway... __________________ My first choice in quality Japanese electrolytics is Nippon Chemi-Con, which has been in business since 1931... the quality of electronics is dependent on the quality of the electrolytics.

08-26-2013, 06:57 PM	#14
ratdude747 Black Sheep Join Date: Nov 2008 City & State: Madison, IN My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 16,690	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Probably fake teapo's... I doubt teapo would be that low or somebody that desperate to re-sleeve.

09-09-2013, 11:35 AM	#15
cheapie null Join Date: Jul 2010 City & State: Walcott, IA My Country: USA Line Voltage: 124VAC 59Hz I'm a: Hobbyist Tech Posts: 842	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Still better than a resleeved Fuhjyyu or whatever.

01-22-2014, 01:08 AM	#16
Gianni Badcaps Veteran Join Date: Jul 2008 City & State: Como, Italy My Country: Italy Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz I'm a: Knowledge Seeker Posts: 569	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme A stupid question: but Nichicon can tollerate that someone sells fake caps with his brand? __________________ "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins...Not through strength, but through persistence." H. J. Brown

01-22-2014, 02:19 AM	#17
Per Hansson Super Moderator Join Date: Jul 2005 City & State: ---- My Country: Sweden Line Voltage: 230v 50Hz I'm a: Knowledge Seeker Posts: 5,523	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Try sending them a mail alerting them about the fact that DealExtreme sells these caps. They (DX) are afterall a large reseller so maybe they will care... __________________ "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

05-22-2014, 10:10 AM	#18
ReeceyBurger123 Never Give Up ! Join Date: May 2014 City & State: Telford My Country: Britain Line Voltage: 240 VAC 50Hz I'm a: Student Tech Posts: 7,248	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Thanks for the post, I was looking on the site and I was suspicious but thanks for confirming this, has someone complained to the site ?

05-23-2016, 03:37 PM	#19
kevin! recapping PCB. Join Date: Jul 2013 City & State: Gerona My Country: España Line Voltage: 230VAC 49Hz, 2 Ph I'm a: Hobbyist Tech Posts: 186	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Good copy of Nichicon Now out jokes, it seems incredible that ridiculous copies are still sold on websites known :S. Thanks for the warning! __________________ Gaming pc: nVidia RTX 3080 TI, Corsair RM750I. Workshop PC: Intel core i5 8400, Intel SSD 256GB, nvidia gt1030, asus b365-a. Server: Last edited by kevin!; 05-23-2016 at 03:42 PM..

01-31-2017, 04:46 AM	#20
kangmaz New Member Join Date: Jan 2017 City & State: JEMBER My Country: Indonesia I'm a: Knowledge Seeker Posts: 6	Re: Fake Nichicons being sold at DealExtreme Good for PSU use maybe?

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