Re: Wintek and ASROCK MotherBoard

The ASRock board, interestingly, has Rubicon Caps around the CPU and they are (look) in perfect condition, no swelling. Same with a brand called TEAPO.
The brand that has swelled are around the ram slots and the AGP slot, away from the heat, and they are TAICON caps, green plastic sleeve, all 1000mfd/6.3v.
Rubicon caps, I'm pretty sure have been around even before I was a radio apprentice 37 years ago, so maybe they kept their integrity intact. The Johnny come latelies?...well that's another story

I had two Wintek/Winfast not sure which name is right (identical boards) over two years (I messed up the first one when I tried to update the Bios and it was, prior to that, working fine. Also needed a working computer straight away.) Anyway, the 2nd board lasted a year and then developed the faults mentioned on this site, noticed the caps were swollen so dug out the 1st board and swapped the cmos chip. Got a year out of that one too till the caps started swelling.I thought it was poor design, with the caps right next to the CPU heatsink!
Didn't know about this site until today otherwise...