Re: Testament to GIGABYTE reliability

Considering "the four visibly bad ones" DOES constitute all of the Choyo's, we're on the same page

The other ones are Rubycon, Sanyo, and Panasonic.

I've had the Gigabyte GA-7VAX mobo for some time now in a workstation machine, and recently discovered the fact that several caps were dying.

Being the techie I am, I swapped out the mobo with another -7VAX and it was all good.

Upon further inspection of the hurting motherboard, I made a shocking discovery: 2 caps had bulged (all 6.3v 3300uF Choyo, they're on the cap-blacklist), but 2 others had failed. Quite spectacularily. Both had pushed their rubber caps clean out with electrolyte flowing down the board, and one was only hanging on by a lead. Here's the kicker:...

Re: Help! New guy recapping ASUS A8V-E mobos

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Re: Help! New guy recapping ASUS A8V-E mobos

Here's a pic of the area with the failed cap(s) on the board. On this board, the failed on is the one closest to the NB heatsink and CPU fan mount. The other larger caps in the photo are the same type.

The second board in question is identical, except that it has a second (also failed) cap beside the failed one (On this board it's just a printed symbol), and is also of the same type....

Hey guys

Noobie here , and have a few questions.

I'm recapping a pair of ASUS A8V-E mobos - both had the same caps go (I think they were the Vcore rail, but not sure). Upon inspection of the caps, I can tell that they are Nippon-Chemicon KZG's rated at 820uF and 6.3V.

Further research indicates that the KZG line is, well *ka-put*.

Obviously I didn't want to replace the caps with the same ones and have them explode 9 months down the road when my child starts trying to do my work for me, so I looked on digikey, and found some caps...