Re: AsRock P4i65G polycap/polymod advice?

Ah awesome thanks for the info It's a Prescott CPU its running, although it is overclocked currently also (3.0Ghz OC to 3.3 at the moment)

I'll have to pull it back out and look at the sanyo caps to see. so replace these with Panasonic FRs?

and where you're referring to the capacitors for the CPU VRM, that s where the 5 OST caps are and the blank spot yes? Should I fill that 6th spot?

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I have a Pentium 4 motherboard, a AsRock P4i65G that I'm wondering whether it would be worthwhile doing a polycap upgrade on? The existing capacitors look fine to me, none are bulging or leaking that I've noticed. I was approaching it more from an 'upgrade' perspective, as to whether there would be any benefit to do such a mod even if the existing capacitors look fine?

I believe that if I do go down this route, for the Voltage Regulation circuits that I should be sticking to the same capacitance and voltage, and that a higher ripple voltage and lower ESR can...

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I'm Erroneous, from NSW Australia. I've recently started getting into retro gaming, repairing and restoring (and retromodding) consoles, retro pc builds, stuff like that. Growing up in the mid to late 80s I had a Commodore 64 during my childhood which I loved to game on with my Dad. It eventually clapped out, and despite not really having much money my parents managed to pick up a Nintendo, followed by a Super Nintendo which I spent much of my gaming youth on.

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