Hi all,
This will be my thirst thread over here!
I have an Asus P3V4X motherboard. After 10 years of use i thought to give it some service. The caps used on this motherboard are:
Rubycon ZL for regulators for AGP and CPU.
Sanyo SE for other filtering and stuff.
I know that these capacitors are good, but After 10 years of use they are getting old and some get warm to.
I replaced the capacitors by the Yageo SY series. (low esr, low impedance)
The system is more stable now, so that's a good thing!
The problem I noticed that some regulators get hotter then before and the capacitors arround it to
http://www.pothasttechnologies.com/e...SUS_P3V_4x.JPG
On the photo (from the internet, they use other capacitors) its the regulator on the right side of the printer port, between the two coils and the 3 capacitors down under the right coil. This is what is getting hot.
Has this something to do with the ripple current?
Also I raised the capacitance of the Vcore from 1200uF to 1500uF beqause I'm using a Pentium III-S 1400Mhz processor with a slot-T adaptor.
Most motherboards (socket370) have much more capacitance for filtering so I thought it could do no harm.
Anyway, what's up with the hotter regulators?
Thanx!
[EDIT] I meant low impedance.
This will be my thirst thread over here!
I have an Asus P3V4X motherboard. After 10 years of use i thought to give it some service. The caps used on this motherboard are:
Rubycon ZL for regulators for AGP and CPU.
Sanyo SE for other filtering and stuff.
I know that these capacitors are good, but After 10 years of use they are getting old and some get warm to.
I replaced the capacitors by the Yageo SY series. (low esr, low impedance)
The system is more stable now, so that's a good thing!
The problem I noticed that some regulators get hotter then before and the capacitors arround it to
http://www.pothasttechnologies.com/e...SUS_P3V_4x.JPG
On the photo (from the internet, they use other capacitors) its the regulator on the right side of the printer port, between the two coils and the 3 capacitors down under the right coil. This is what is getting hot.
Has this something to do with the ripple current?
Also I raised the capacitance of the Vcore from 1200uF to 1500uF beqause I'm using a Pentium III-S 1400Mhz processor with a slot-T adaptor.
Most motherboards (socket370) have much more capacitance for filtering so I thought it could do no harm.
Anyway, what's up with the hotter regulators?
Thanx!
[EDIT] I meant low impedance.
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