Not sure if there were fake Nichicons or the wrong type were use or simply that Nichicon had lost the plot.

All but one of these have failed on the mainboard (this is the third board I've seen) at least the warranty returns come with other brands (Chemicon? and I remember seeing a Samoxon).

I refuse to fix these myself and send them all back to Intel regardless on how old they are i.e. out of warranty, it's their responsibility for an inherent fault and so far there has been no issues getting them warranted.

And slightly off topic, Gigabyte are a totally...

Re: The Great Capacitor Showdown - Rubycon vs Panasonic vs Samxon

Hey Guys,

I tought you might be intrested to know that Intel have started to use Samxon CAP, just rec. some Intel boards (DQ965GF) this afternoon and they have Samxon GD(M) 3300uF6.3v caps on them, I frikken hope Samxon turn out to be good quality or I'm going to be a very unhappy chappy in a few years.

And I just tought of something as I was writing this, damn it would have been good to also test some know crap capacitors for refrence sake, oh well to late now.

Cheers...