Purchased 4PEA in March this year, to replace 4G4A with bad caps. Today discovered bad caps in the 4PEA ... GSC again.
No more Epox for me.
Tim
No more Epox for me.
Tim
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Re: Another bad Epox
can you get a pic of the board. we are collecting pics of recent boards with badcaps. it is a pity the 478 boards last around 1 year when they have crap caps.
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Re: Another bad Epox
I've attached pix to this message.Originally posted by willawake
I plan to return under warranty for repair or replacement.
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Re: Another bad Epox
We have Epox P4 board with some kind of 845 chipset in a server @work. I've never seen it so it can be anything. There are no stability problems yet - but looks like we need to buy new board, no Epox this time. I've always said that Epox is crap brand but people don't listen...Comment
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Re: Epox 4PEA with Badcaps
This is a close-up picture of the caps on an EPOX EP-8KRAI Pro motherboard that was taken by TigerDirect. You see, there are Rubycon caps. I guess Epox has realized that some of the boards being RMA'ed to them have bad caps, so they now put high-quality caps on their boards.
Attached FilesMy 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-bitComment
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Re: Epox 4PEA with Badcaps
Nice find Newbie2!
But are all the caps Rubycon or just some of them?
I always smile when I look at my rev 1.2 Abit NF7-S mainboard, it is populated with only Rubycon capacitors, it is just such a pita that it is dead
(it kills BIOS chips if I install them so something is seriously wrong with it, this board was one I got on warranty because my other NF7-S also died, can't recall why though, and I never got around to sending back the DOA RMA board...)
"The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."Comment
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Re: Epox 4PEA with Badcaps
I guess that the first boards (for tests and reviews) have good caps and then they change to GSC to lower the price...Comment
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Re: Epox 4PEA with Badcaps
I have done some more research about this and found out that EPOX now uses Rubycon and Sanyo caps but they still use Teapo, but they have improved a little, by my opinion.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-bitComment
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