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Foetuss replied to Gigabyte GA-6OXT :: caps question

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02-28-2025, 06:29 AM
Yea, already have a small cap collection now .
Actually repaired my Soltek golden board also, which was a real b**** to get caps out off, huge grounding pane or because of that coating layer

I actually have 4.. I bought a box of "broken cpu's" for 80 EUR which ended up being around 70x Pentium MMX / 20x Celeron (Mendocino) and 15 P3's / Celeron 3's. Including Tualatin's 1000 / 1133-S / 1266-S / 1400-S.
Spend about 4 weeks correcting pins 🤐. The P3 Celerons (also Tualatins) especially just had the tendency to snap pins like it was their job....

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Foetuss replied to Gigabyte GA-6OXT :: caps question

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02-22-2025, 03:45 AM
Thanks for all the feedback guys. And the very detailed info momaka!
Yea, the naming scheme was choosen quite poorly.. Maybe another one of the reasons its hard to find 😅.

The caps came in, I ordered Ruby's ZLQ / ZLG & ZLH's - including some spares for other boards. So i'll see if I can recap this weekend succesfully. Ended up spending way too much again

The board does indeed support Tualatin's. I tested it with the 700Mhz CPU it came with, and a 1200-S / 1400-S I have laying around. Worked fine for a quick test at least.
One of the reasons I wanted...

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Foetuss replied to Gigabyte GA-6OXT :: caps question

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02-13-2025, 05:34 PM
Thanks for the tips! I'll check out if I can order ZLQ series instead.

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Foetuss replied to Gigabyte GA-6OXT :: caps question

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02-11-2025, 12:23 PM
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Foetuss started a topic Gigabyte GA-6OXT :: caps question

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02-11-2025, 12:22 PM
Gigabyte GA-6OXT :: caps question

Good evening

I recently aquired a rev 1.1 Gigabyte 60XT, and was suprised of the amount of leaking caps for a motherboard of the P3 era. Especially the way the 330µf caps seems like the housing discolored even.
Now, there are some 3300µF 6.3V KZG series around the CPU. Would it be OK to replace them with something like EEUFR1A332 ? (Panasonic FR 3300µF 10V). Or was this board designed around [B]very [/B]low ESR caps?

But I was also suprised about the bigger boys, which are 330µF [B]25V[/B].
Could it be they used 25V caps because they were cheaper / available...

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Foetuss replied to Recap motherboards :: Abit KG7-LITE and Soltek SL-75FRN2-L

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02-11-2025, 11:43 AM
Thanks for the update guys. I recapped the Abit board with succes. And will check to order some caps to replace those around the memory and near the cored coils as suggested.
The Golden board was already sold dead, and i hoped recapping is would bring back some life. But it stays .. dead . Completely dead. I do have another one that actually lives (a later revision) that I will recap. And on that board all caps around the memory modules are indeed leaking.

Thanks for all the input....

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Foetuss replied to Recap motherboards :: Abit KG7-LITE and Soltek SL-75FRN2-L

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01-18-2025, 04:00 PM
Thanks for the reply!

So for the Soltek the Chemi-cons should be fine, if a bit overkill for the 16V ones.
Regarding the ceramic, its not visible on this picture. But the other side somehow has a huge deep scratch on it at the top. Its the only 'damage' on the board. So I rather just replace it.
Kept the original one, have not measured it. I figured to just replace it for the couple of cents it costs to purchase a new one....

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Foetuss started a topic Recap motherboards :: Abit KG7-LITE and Soltek SL-75FRN2-L

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01-18-2025, 11:44 AM
Recap motherboards :: Abit KG7-LITE and Soltek SL-75FRN2-L

Hi all

Hope this is in the correct place.

I'm planning on recapping both motherboards. I actually already ordered recplament caps for them, where I will be changing out most for poly's.
Could use some double checking to see if I'm not doing something stupid .

Pictures of the boards are attached.
What I will be replacing with what : (planned)

Soltek Golden ::
4 1500µF 16V 10mm (5mmL) KZG => APSG160ELL152MJ16S (Chemi-Con 1500µF 16V)
6 3300µF 6.3V 10mm (5mmL) KZG => APSG160ELL272MJ20S (Chemi-Con 2700µF 16V)...

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Foetuss replied to New Members - please post your introductions here

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01-18-2025, 11:29 AM
Been lurking for a while, so time came to register and participate a bit .

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