Hi all,
I have a Leadtek GF4 Ti4600 and its never been stable, ever. I have always presumed it was iverheating but cant find a reason why it would! Anyway, i recently did a quick swap with a mate for an hour or so and for him it not only froze every 5 minutes whilst playing games it actually completely corrupted, his ti4200was rock solid in my system.
anyway, with the graphics card the definate culprit, I have replaced the thermal gunk, lapped he HS, improved the air flow over it etc etc all to no end.
Anyway, on closer inspction a cap towards the abck of the board is bulging at the top!
Could this cause the perhaps some components to be over volted and as such heat up to much? Or just generally cause its instability?
anyway, im trying to fix it, SO I have just ordered some replacemment caps.
problem is, ive been looking round the site and u say they must be low ESR. Now, I dont have a clue if what i bought is! None of the sites mentioned it!
The cap on the card is a GSC 1000uF 6.3v, so I have bought some Rubycon 6.3v 1000uF, i thought this would be fine, but am i going to blow the card up completely by replacing it with these new caps, as i dont know if they r low ESR!
im a bit of a n00b to all this
cheers guys
I have a Leadtek GF4 Ti4600 and its never been stable, ever. I have always presumed it was iverheating but cant find a reason why it would! Anyway, i recently did a quick swap with a mate for an hour or so and for him it not only froze every 5 minutes whilst playing games it actually completely corrupted, his ti4200was rock solid in my system.
anyway, with the graphics card the definate culprit, I have replaced the thermal gunk, lapped he HS, improved the air flow over it etc etc all to no end.
Anyway, on closer inspction a cap towards the abck of the board is bulging at the top!
Could this cause the perhaps some components to be over volted and as such heat up to much? Or just generally cause its instability?
anyway, im trying to fix it, SO I have just ordered some replacemment caps.
problem is, ive been looking round the site and u say they must be low ESR. Now, I dont have a clue if what i bought is! None of the sites mentioned it!
The cap on the card is a GSC 1000uF 6.3v, so I have bought some Rubycon 6.3v 1000uF, i thought this would be fine, but am i going to blow the card up completely by replacing it with these new caps, as i dont know if they r low ESR!
im a bit of a n00b to all this
cheers guys
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