MSI 694D Master-S recap success

[killjoy]

Hi!

Just wanted to show what I did last night (till 3am). The board has been now running stabile for about 10 hours with both cpus and 768MB of memory. Before recap it crashed in a hour and detected random amounts of memory each reboot. Now it detects correctly every single time.

Caps:
5xChhsi 1000uF 6.3V -> Nichicon HD 1200uF 10V
3xChhsi 470uF 16V -> Nichicon PL 330uF 50V (not best suited)
2xChhsi 100uF 16V -> Nichicon PL 120uF 25V
3xChhsi 100uF 25V -> Nichicon PL 120uF 25V
1xTayeh 1500uF 6.3V -> Nichicon PM 2200uF 6.3V
8xTayeh 2700uF 6.3V (vrm out) -> Nichicon PM 2200uF 6.3V
4xNippon chemi-con KZE 4700uF 6.3V (vrm in) -> left alone

As you can see I had to use 2200uF in place of 2700uF because I didn't have bigger uF in small enough physical size. I hope those smaller caps can handle the extra strain at least for a couple years.

The small heatsink for other cpu in pictures was just for a quick test as I had misplaced other M1. M1s are enough to run 650MHz coppermines fanless in a case with good airflow. I dont want any extra noise since this will become my astaro firewall box.

BTW it's not easy to find quality low ESR caps in Finland. I had to order my Nichicons from USA :/

[yanz]

Re: MSI 694D Master-S recap success

good work and nice dolls there what a joy to hear another success story.

2700uF to 2200uF and 1500uF to 2200uF replacement are fine, if it works then it works. there are some room for tolerance in the design of the mobo and in the spec of cap it self.