Hi everyone,
I have some DFI nF4 boards coming in to try and relieve some nostalgic times. A few of the boards have bulging caps and I'd like to just recap the entire boards to make a fun project of several weekends.
I am not entirely new to this replacing caps thing, having swapped out some bad caps on original Xbox motherboards while completing my EE undergrad.
I am curious if there are any electrical issues (yes my undergrad is EE but I mostly work in CPU logic design and OS/firmware now so... it's been a while hah) with replacing all caps on DFI nF4 motherboards with equivalent polymers (cost isn't really a concern, but availability might be I suppose)?
From what I recall, I should match capacitance and voltage spec, along with similar ESR (or lower). It looks like the circuits around the CPU are already polymers on these motherboards so I won't be replacing those if I don't have to.
Am I missing anything? Is this really dumb ?
I have some DFI nF4 boards coming in to try and relieve some nostalgic times. A few of the boards have bulging caps and I'd like to just recap the entire boards to make a fun project of several weekends.
I am not entirely new to this replacing caps thing, having swapped out some bad caps on original Xbox motherboards while completing my EE undergrad.
I am curious if there are any electrical issues (yes my undergrad is EE but I mostly work in CPU logic design and OS/firmware now so... it's been a while hah) with replacing all caps on DFI nF4 motherboards with equivalent polymers (cost isn't really a concern, but availability might be I suppose)?
From what I recall, I should match capacitance and voltage spec, along with similar ESR (or lower). It looks like the circuits around the CPU are already polymers on these motherboards so I won't be replacing those if I don't have to.
Am I missing anything? Is this really dumb ?
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