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    xfx 9600gt capacitor blown - plz help

    hello guys, my xfx9600gt capacitor got blown . I came to know its sacon brand
    the specs are
    fz82
    1000uf
    6.3volt

    The card is two years old which is out of warranty and had been working fine so far. One fine day, i got a white screen when my staff pulled the drawer of the table which lead to a slight shake and the screen went white. The pc hung and even the ctrl alt del keys and the numlock keys failed to work. So i had to cold restart the pc by pressing the reset button and everything ran normal for the following 2 days. Then when i unplugged the stereo cable from my sound card (which is age old yamaha 724 series) the same white screen showed up. So i suspected there might be a problem with the sound card which might have become loose from the pci slot but didnt take any action.

    The next day while i was working with Tally , the screen blacked out and PC froze. So had to push reset button as keyb keys failed to work as before. After restarting i didnt get any display. So i removed the gfx card and the sound card the PC had been working fine till now.

    I noticed that one of the card's capacitor with the above rating had gone blown up. Could this be a problem ?. Now i have replaced that blown cap with a taicon capacitor with the same rating. But i have no idea about the ESR or ripple rating and replaced it. Will this damage the card and/or the motherboard/other components ?. Replaced it just half an hour back and the card seems to work normal but have to observe it atleast for a couple of days .

    I was shocked to see the Taicon brand enlisted under the bad capacitor mfrs list. Now i am very much worried. I was searching for panasonic ones and they arent available in my locality. Those which are available here are taicon, capxon, samxon, etc. I came to know that the samxon is a good unit and should have replaced it with that. I was told that the gfx cards with fz series are cheap seacon capacitors. I was under the wrong impression that the samxon and the seacon capacitors are deceptively similar and opted for the taicon brand.

    Now what to do ?. Should i replace the TAICON with the SAMXON or use it until it dies and get the samxon thereafter ?.

    Moreover when i mailed XFX, singapore (from where the card is purchased) they told that this issue can even be a result of failing GPU due to its age !!!???. Its only 2 yrs old . OMG . They ask 40SGD for diagonising this issue. I cannot afford this much just for diagonising this card and they didnt tell anything about the service charge.
    Instead i can invest some extra bucks and buy a new card itself...

    So guys please help...

    thanx in advance
    Last edited by jafutter; 09-07-2011, 10:18 AM.

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    Re: xfx 9600gt capacitor blown - plz help

    Originally posted by jafutter View Post
    hello guys, my xfx9600gt capacitor got blown . I came to know its sacon brand

    fz

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      Re: xfx 9600gt capacitor blown - plz help

      Sounds to me like you have several failures. You have no location listed so that isnt going to help as far as options go. Starting with the video card I would replace the cap with a better cap ESR as low or lower and Ripple as high or higher than what the orginal was, (If it was purchased in the USA you could have got the XFX double lifetime warranty but it wasnt so lets forget that and repair it). Second I think you might want to check you PSU and motherboard for badcaps.

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        Re: xfx 9600gt capacitor blown - plz help

        IMO it cannot be an issue either witht he PSU or mobo. Because my PC works fine after removing the graphics card. But there may be an issue witht he sound card (its old) . Now i am running my pc with that graphics card (with the replaced taicon capacitor) but without the sound card. No issues so far. But i was told that i should have replaced with higher voltage like 10v. And is samxon a reliable brand ?. In my locality in cannot get panasonic. Only cheap ones are retailed here and mine is an underdeveloped country so the possibility of getting good components here is low.

        So what do you think about the Taicon one ?. It is HD(M) series. If you want i cant post the specs of this capacitor

        My PSU is corsair and mobo is asus m3n78em

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          Re: xfx 9600gt capacitor blown - plz help

          The specs for FZ are posted in the forum in several places.
          https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...88&postcount=2
          It's doubtful that an HD is adequate.

          The higher end Samxon and RS are reliable.
          GD, GC, GA and RS are well tested and good.
          Some of the others have had problems but I forget which.
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