Re: K7T266 Pro2 (MSI MS-6380), damaged caps!

"So for that, I recommend you get a temperature-controlled station with T12 -type tips"

Yes, actually the soldering iron I had was an ERSA TIP260, 16 Watt ;-)

But this week I made a good deal on a Weller we1010. Not a fancy thing, just an entry level soldering station. But it‘s an improvement over the 16 Watt iron;-) I also got different tips in various sizes....

Re: K7T266 Pro2 (MSI MS-6380), damaged caps!



I tried to make a picture of the damaged ones but it's nearly impossible for me to get a close up when the heatsink/chipset cooler is installed. The board is currently installed in the case. But I hear what you say, maybe I worry too much.

Nevertheless, I will install some Pany FR and a view polys to see what happens. For me it will be a tryout and my first recap. Maybe a good idea before I take hands on other boards...

Anyway, I want to thank all of you for answering my question.
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Re: K7T266 Pro2 (MSI MS-6380), damaged caps!

Yes, the caps are still fine. At least what I can tell visually. However, at least two of the RUBYCON MBZ seem to be "depressed". I assume because it has some scratch marks on it it is due to removal/installation of the heatsink.

@zunasthegreat: When you say strain on the VRM, do you mean I should stick to a similar capacity as ChaosLegionnaire stated and buy some high quality caps or switch to polys to meet or exced the original ESR/Ripple values...I wonder if that would work?

Re: K7T266 Pro2 (MSI MS-6380), damaged caps!

Thanks for the reply, you are absolutly right, it is a Universal AGP. Most of the time I will run a Voodoo5 5500 on it. That‘s why I was only focused on 3.3V support.

Please allow me to ask, you are talking about the VRM design of Intel P3 and the less importance of esr. In my case it‘s an AMD Socket A, so this rule of thumb works regardles of AMD of Intel as long as I can find coils in the CPU area with several turnes?

Maybe in this case a stupid question, but I should in this case also not be worried...

Hi Guys!

For my retro machine I was looking for a mainboard with 3.3V AGP support. Luckily I found several being one a K7T266 Pro2 from MSI. The board runs fine, but after a brief visual inspection I could find physically damaged caps around the socket area. My guess is that during the installation of the CPU cooler they got damaged. To be on the save side I want to replace them.
My main concern are the five RUBYCON MBZ 2200uf, 6.3V. But if I start the process I am also looking on the other ones around the socket area.

In total there are

8x...

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Hey guys,

My name is Florian, I am from Bavaria/Germany. Yes, that's the beer drinking place where people wear leather pants…but besides that we are also quite tech-savvy ;-) Remembering my childhood, I decided to build up a retro pc for Win98 gaming. Over the last month I collected parts to build up a suitable platform for my beloved 3dfx parts. However, I figured out that it`s more than just throwing old parts into a computer case. Many of the old components need a “refresh” to be prepared for the next...