NO 16v caps on board?

Shodan486 · 05-17-2010, 11:53 PM

I'm going to bed after the nightshift here, you west guys still asleep, the eastern part living up the day...but before getting to my bed I wondered : I've seen a few boards with socket 370 (462 maybe too, can't recall for sure) which had no additional +12v 4pin rail with ONLY 6.3v lytic capacitors, various capacitance values, but the peak voltage, no 16v caps...so it is possible to build/use a board without necessarily using 16v caps, right?

I'm gonna dream about this, I'll tell you later of the nonsense I will have to face!

Scenic · 05-18-2010, 10:15 AM

old boards up to the Athlon XP era used the 5V rail to power the cpu. the last board doing that was the Asus A7N8X series IIRC.

the pentium 4 roomheaters were the first to use the 12V rail instead.. and everyone else shifted over from 5V to 12V later on.. (which is also why old PSUs have a lot more oomph on the 3,3 and 5V rails.. as those were used for the CPU and basically everything else..)

c_hegge · 05-18-2010, 04:18 PM

I have an ASUS A7V600-X (KT600 chipset) and it uses the 5v rail for the CPU and has no 16v caps.

05-17-2010, 11:53 PM	#1
Shodan486 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 188	NO 16v caps on board? I'm going to bed after the nightshift here, you west guys still asleep, the eastern part living up the day...but before getting to my bed I wondered : I've seen a few boards with socket 370 (462 maybe too, can't recall for sure) which had no additional +12v 4pin rail with ONLY 6.3v lytic capacitors, various capacitance values, but the peak voltage, no 16v caps...so it is possible to build/use a board without necessarily using 16v caps, right? I'm gonna dream about this, I'll tell you later of the nonsense I will have to face! __________________ Mobo: MSI K8N Master2-FAR CPU: 2x Opteron 265 OC'd @ 2,25GHz RAM: 2x2GB Crucial DDR400 CL3 ECC/Buff. (ECC OFF), VGA: ASUS HD6950 2GB Reference edition FLASHED TO HD6970 HDD: 80GB ATA133 Seagate ,OnBoard: 2xGLAN, 8-Ch. Realtek audio, USB2.0/Firewire, PCIe Physx card PSU: 850W Corsair AX Case: Cooler Master HAF932 + NZXT 5 Fan Controller.

05-18-2010, 10:15 AM	#2
Scenic o.O Join Date: Sep 2007 City & State: Duisburg My Country: Germany Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz Posts: 2,616	Re: NO 16v caps on board? old boards up to the Athlon XP era used the 5V rail to power the cpu. the last board doing that was the Asus A7N8X series IIRC. the pentium 4 roomheaters were the first to use the 12V rail instead.. and everyone else shifted over from 5V to 12V later on.. (which is also why old PSUs have a lot more oomph on the 3,3 and 5V rails.. as those were used for the CPU and basically everything else..) __________________ The USA have Barack Obama, Bob Hope, Stevie Wonder and Jonny Cash. We have Angela Merkel, no hope, no wonder, no cash.

05-18-2010, 04:18 PM	#3
c_hegge Unknown Join Date: Sep 2009 City & State: North Coast, NSW My Country: Australia Line Voltage: 240V 50Hz I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 3,371	Re: NO 16v caps on board? I have an ASUS A7V600-X (KT600 chipset) and it uses the 5v rail for the CPU and has no 16v caps. __________________ I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!! Main PC: Core i5 660 3.33GHz, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R, 4GB Kingston DDR3 1333, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, nVidia GTX295 1760MB, Antec 1200 Case, Delta DPS-750CB 750W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows XP Pro. Main Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad T60: Core 2 T2500 2GHz, 2GB DDR2, 80GB HDD, DVD RW, Intel Graphics, Windows XP Pro. 2nd Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A200: Core Duo 1.73GHz, 2GB DDR2, 60GB HDD, DVD RW, nVidia GF Go 7300 Graphics, OpenSUSE 12.2, Fan Mod

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