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    Asus 8400GS

    Started acting funny. 26,849 running hours. The original caps were two TK ATWY 820uF 6.3V and a TK ATWT 330uF 6.3V. The 330uF failed without bulging. Replaced the 820uF 6.3V ATWY with nichicon HN and replaced the 330uF 6.3V ATWT with 470uF 6.3V Chemi-con KZH, and added those little heatsinks to the RAM chips, and replaced the crappy stock thermal paste with MX2



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    Re: Asus 8400GS

    I'd stick a fan on it too. The 8400GS has the substrate defect, and should never be allowed to get warm.
    I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

    No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

    Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

    Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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      #3
      Re: Asus 8400GS

      I think I'll leave it as it is. The computer it's going in will be on 24/7 and has good cooling. I will say, that thermal paste helped a lot. The stock stuff was that terrible bubble gum stuff

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        Re: Asus 8400GS

        Originally posted by Pentium4 View Post
        I think I'll leave it as it is. The computer it's going in will be on 24/7 and has good cooling. I will say, that thermal paste helped a lot. The stock stuff was that terrible bubble gum stuff
        If this were a AGP card It might be worth caring about as they are much harder to find. Since it is PCI-E and such a low end card you could replace it with something twice as good for like $20 so why bother repairing it except for fun.

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          #5
          Re: Asus 8400GS

          I did it for fun of course, and I got it for free. The heatsinks were from a junk chinese PSU. Plus, why not make use of hardware that has already been manufactured?

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