Re: Chemicon or not?
thanks guys
rawgerz
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Chemicon or not?
Checking out a ballast I have, can't figure out what make this cap is. If it's Chemicon, it's the first I've seen to date without a name on it. It does have the traditional CC gray band on the side, but so do fakes. 350V 20-40uf.... -
Opinions of new Gigabyte boards?
I'm starting to really like what they're doing with their new boards. Sure beats the status quo
[url]http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/WebPage/mb_080924_ud3/data/tech_080924_ud3_overview.htm[/url]
Heck, even their power supplies look well built (but expensive!)
[url]http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/atx-psu9_10.html[/url]https://I'm starting to really like .../> Heck, even -
Re: Dead board with no obvious signs
I already tried clearing the cmos the day it died. I left the battery out all night.
I also took all the heatsinks off for to check for any scorch marks, nothing.
When it went dead it had
2x1GB and 2x512MB of corsair value ram, Opteron 145/8?, 8800GTS, and a 1yr old PC power 610W. It has to be the board because the same PSU, VGA, DVD, HDD, and PCI cards are in the new machine.
I even tried my old 6600GT card and another 410W PS in it after leaving the battery out, and no ram at all. Just blank screens...Leave a comment:
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Re: Dead board with no obvious signs
It's not the stock heat sink.
I had to clip some pins to make room for the newer video card, but it never went over 90F. CPU fan didn't die either.Leave a comment:
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Dead board with no obvious signs
This is my once usable, Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI board.Within 15 minutes it was completely dead. It was on almost constantly for 3 years and 3 months.
It started out by doing a hard shut down from XP, and would do that several times, even during POST until it eventually showed no POST at all and the USB ports had no power.
I thought maybe the power supply was bad, but I checked inside it and found nothing obvious.
Best guess I have is a VRM went bad, but maybe someone can see something I didn't (sorry about pic size, don't have PS installed). I changed out the ram, PSU, video... -
Re: In need of a reliable PSU
Thanks for the help.
I went with a 610W PC power and Cooling PS.
The speed fan reports the same crazy +5V on this one too, I guess it must be the program.
any idea on who makes the caps in it? KY?
I've seen the same style on a power regulator board proprietary to my motherboard....Leave a comment:
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Re: Seagate - RMA questions
I would recommend you go with a new 7200.10 or 7200.11 drive.
It seems the model number you gave was of a 7200.8 drive, I had two of those (gosh must of been 3 or 4 years ago) and sent them back because their writes were way too noisy and hot compared to earlier Barracuda generations.
I own a 160GB and 320GB backup drive, both Seagate. And it's the only manufacture that I would ever recommend up till I see otherwise. I think one is 2 years old, and the other about a year.
My 320GB drive gets a daily mirror of my main drive...Leave a comment:
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Re: Seagate - RMA questions
This drive wouldn't happen to be a ST3160812AS, would it? That's my main drive. And a ST3320620AS as my backup.
I have had 5 Seagates. Not one died on me. I even have a working 40GB barracuda that had a 5-6 year run time I believe.
I've had two 80GB SATA Samsung drives 2 years ago for raid 0. Both slowed down, corrupted, etc. They were [I]silent[/I] but not reliable.
I can't wait for solid state disks to become affordable and fast.Re: Seagate - RMA questions
This drive wouldn't happen to be aLast edited by rawgerz; 11-11-2007, 04:19 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: In need of a reliable PSU
I probably could manage to do it myself, I just don't have the tools or the experience. It's kind of like soldering copper pipe, you can screw up on pipe and cut off the bad ends easy, but not with a circuit board.
If it was a motherboard I would at least try, but I would have lots of trouble with a PS with how cramped they are and all the wires in the way with hands my size.
My motherboard seems to have done it right, although it is made in Japan. Rubycoon, Sanyo, and I think I saw something called HHW or something.
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Re: In need of a reliable PSU
I think I will order one of the PC power supply's.
So even if I do have problems, they look to be more honest about their warranty. The act high and mighty in their "power supply myths exposed" article, when they don't even use high end caps? That makes no sense to me.
It's a shame these days that no PS company is using quality caps. I wonder if that day will ever come, or even a day when they use solid capacitors.
thanks for helpLeave a comment:
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In need of a reliable PSU
Hi guys, I'm looking for help on choosing my next Power supply. My 1 1/2 year old Rosewill has one or two bad Koshin caps and it can't handle a new graphics card load even with 34A, and makes nasty bug zapper sounds from just the load my 6600GT puts on it.
Could someone point me to brands with known high quality caps and are tested well?
Thanks!
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