ABIT boards seem good these days

[RoadKill]

I know this obvious, but I thought I'd post anyhow.

The last two AI7 boards I've had, one of them was United chemi-con & Rubycon, and the newest was all Rubycon.

It seems they've kept good to their word still, which is good. It'll only do them well in the long run!

[MD Willington]

Cheaper to do it right the first time...RMA and class action lawsuits will drive down the earnings of the company and make the shareholders VERY mad!

MD

[scorpionro]

Re: ABIT boards seem good these days

Not so sure about how "good" they really are. Got a cheapo KN8 Ultra (kind of a temporary measure because I needed a mobo with PCI-Express 16x slot) and it is full of TEAPOs and OSTs; the mobo is the revision 1.1 and it seems that they've really cheaped out - the picture on abit.com.tw seems to be from revision 1.1 which had better caps; while googling I found other users who bought this mobo or KN8 SLI and found it full of OSTs and TEAPOs;

PIC :

[Shroomie]

Re: ABIT boards seem good these days

Well, the VRM caps are either Panasonic or Samxon, anyway. And it could be a lot worse that Teapo (getting better) or OST (not great, but OK).

[scorpionro]

Re: ABIT boards seem good these days

That's exactly what I wanted to ask ... I couldn't identify the VRM caps and I don't have the pics with them on this PC

[Shroomie]

Re: ABIT boards seem good these days

They've got T-vents, so they're made by or for Panasonic. Some Samxon caps have these too. Panasonic (Matsushita) are good caps, Samxon are in evaluation but also seem to be. The logo on them is most likely an M in a square?

[scorpionro]

Re: ABIT boards seem good these days

From what I can rember they do have an M in a rectangle/square logo; hopefully the mobo will be ok with my passive cooling

[Hagis2k]

Re: ABIT boards seem good these days

Hehe that is what i call a chipset cooler damn !

[scorpionro]

Re: ABIT boards seem good these days

I found a pic where the caps from the VRM can be seen


To view the full-sized pic (~2.2MB / 2500 x 2000) : full sized pic

It seems that it is writtend 5DIIGA on them. I don't have another one to show the other side of the caps as well

So, anyone know what caps are those ?

[tiresias]

Re: ABIT boards seem good these days

So, anyone know what caps are those ?

They appear to be Matsushita (Panasonic)... which would be good.