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Reminds me of my old 350W CWT I had when I first bought it. (second hand) I found a dangling around 2200uF 16v UCC KY cap that was connected with wires.Main rig:
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Re: how NOT to do a recap
Reminds me of this guy:
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic...caps-on-a-psu/
Using GP caps instead of low impedance. And fan controlled by the Motherboard...
Is there anything more you can do wrong?Comment
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but what pisses me off is that people look on guys like that as experts - just because they post video's!!Comment
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Good posts guys, I've been using Antec PSU's for PC Replacments for the last 4-5 years, only ever had one come back under warrenty, whats your take on Antec branded PSU's, They are a very solid build, and were recommended to me by another Technician, I've never had to do a recap so i dont even know if they use quality Caps in the build or not, must check it out when i get time, tanx guysComment
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totally agree stj, sites such as Youtube are great but for every good video posted there are 100's of particularly bad and some even very dangerous ones as we've seen.Comment
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Antec, when they work, they are good.
but the soldering is not always good and the caps are crap - atleast on the older ones.
i'v not seen in any recent ones.Comment
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Recent ones sadly seem to be mostly Seasonic. With full Japanese caps. In General all High Current ones and the Edge and True Power Classics come with 'All japanese caps', though Edge and TPC are just seasonic G-Series. And really interesting are only the (expansive) High Current Pro Platinum ones -> made by Delta.
Don't know much about the lower end ones though. Some are made by Delta and use non japanese caps...Comment
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Tanx for that guys, good to knowComment
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Heard of Dunning Kruger?
You need to be competent to know if the other one is competent.
If you are incompetent, you don't/can't know if the other is incompetent.
Though sometimes you may want/need to use your brain to see if it is sensible what's done...
Sometimes you can see that the one is incompetent -> PCB of PSU looks clean...Comment
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i watched a "tech guy" on utube the other day spend over a min pressing F2 on a keyboard only to declair that the motherboard could be faulty because he couldnt enter the bios.
it clearly said at the bottom of his monitor "press DEL to enter"
what a dickhead!Comment
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The last ones I can confirm being CWT-based, are the 2005s.
Mostly 2000-2005.
Fuhjyyu caps appear to be the worst in 2003, 2004 and 2005...
I think my 2005 Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W got a bulging Fuhjyyu cap on the +5 VSB rail, because it had a lower-pitched squeal when the PC was off and the house was quiet... (Back in 2011, right before I stopped using it.)Last edited by RJARRRPCGP; 05-23-2017, 06:25 PM.ASRock B550 PG Velocita
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Here’s another motherboard that needed a full recap: an ASUS P5GC-MX.
This one was gifted to me some years ago by user Pentium 4, along with a few other goodies. It actually came in working order with no bulging or leaking caps. However, I noted there were United Chemicon KZG caps everywhere on the motherboard. The CPU VRM output (CPU V_core) was the only exception: it had only 2x KZG. The rest was 6x UCC TMV 4V 680 uF caps… which aren’t any good news either.
So here is what the motherboard looked like with its original caps:
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I've been seeing a lot of cheap-looking (but not always so cheap) no-name AGP video cards on eBay for a while. They started popping up quite a bit when the market for AGP cards became more alive all of a sudden due to interest in “retro” PCs. One thing that struck me about these cheapo cards is that they almost always seem to come with garbage caps - including the abominable Sacon FZ. That aside, though, I've been wondering about the rest of the quality (or lack of?) on these cards. So I decided to satisfy my curiosity yet again.
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Hi all
Hope this is in the correct place.
I'm planning on recapping both motherboards. I actually already ordered recplament caps for them, where I will be changing out most for poly's.
Could use some double checking to see if I'm not doing something stupid
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Pictures of the boards are attached.
What I will be replacing with what : (planned)
Soltek Golden ::
4 1500µF 16V 10mm (5mmL) KZG => APSG160ELL152MJ16S (Chemi-Con 1500µF 16V)
6 3300µF 6.3V 10mm (5mmL) KZG => APSG160ELL272MJ20S (Chemi-Con 2700µF 16V)... -
Got 4 CCFL 16/10 monitors for free.
The resolution is almost Full HD (1680x1050)
VGA Input only is a bummer though.
Uses cheap TN panel with terrible viewing angles.
Even though this is not 17" 5:4 screen, still has very low resell value here. Can be found for 15-20 euros.
All the 4 monitors were not working and needed psu recap. Used mix of mediocre / junk caps to recap them, then donated 3 of them to friends/relatives and kept 1 for myself. Also like to install extra caps on empty spaces to help them last longer.
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The more time passes, the more nostalgic I get with old hardware. Video cards and motherboards tend to be my weak spot. As such, I often scavenge eBay for old PC hardware, especially anything with bad caps or in need of similar minor repair.
For today's consideration, I have a popular low-end card from back in the early 2000's: an nVidia GeForce FX5200. This one is the BFG Tech. Asylum take on the card, with 256 MB of DDR RAM running at 400 MHz and 128-bit bus (vs. 64-128 MB and 64-bit bus on many of the cheaper versions.)
I think it's easy...
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