Ga-6vtxe

[Rainbow]

Bad all 4 GSC 3300uF/6.3V and all 2 GSC 1200uF/6.3V. Luckily, the 330uF/25V caps are not Choyo but G-Luxon so they're not bad. There are free spaces so I'll use more 2200uF caps instead of those 3300uF.
BTW. Yes, the CPU socket is blue The camera is not that bad.

[Rainbow]

Re: Ga-6vtxe

Replaced 4 3300uF with 6 2200uF/16V and 2 1200uF with 2 2200uF/16V. The free spaces for caps were not all connected to VCore - one is for 5V line - I left that free and used all other - 6 2200uF caps are exact fit for the same capacitance - the board was probably designed for that.

[Rainbow]

Re: Ga-6vtxe

New caps - perfect fit. You can also see one free cap-space for the 5V line. I've already upgraded two 1200uF to 2200uF so I left this one free.
The VRM runs really hot because there are only two mosfets (measured 72 degC on the upper mosfet!). The heat might be a problem for the new caps. Fortunately, most of them are away from the mosfets.

[linuxguru]

Re: Ga-6vtxe

Blue Socket-370 sockets generally denote Tualatin support, although there's no change to the pinout. The Northbridge (Via 8601T) confirms the Tualatin support. With a careful choice of low-ESR caps, it might be possible to do a 'golden overclock' on Tualerons with this board - 100->133 FSB with no other mods. Perhaps a good application for those Samxon ultra-low ESR caps that Big Pope is promoting?

[Per Hansson]

Re: Ga-6vtxe

Rainbow; slap a small heatsink on the VRM's

So they get additional cooling from the CPU and case fans... It always helps... Never good to run components at high temps

And the board does support Tualatins just as linuxguru says
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Motherboa...t_GA-6VTXE.htm

[Rainbow]

Re: Ga-6vtxe

I know that it's Tualatin board - tested it with Celeron 1.3GHz.

[kc8adu]

Re: Ga-6vtxe

the g-luxons are bad.you just dont know it yet.
you can use 1000@6.3 to replace them.do it now or wish you had later.