HP 533 w/Trigem

[jarobi]

I've run across a couple of these, the Trigems are always horrible. The bad caps are TMS; note the Rubycons sitting pretty beside the leakers in the photos.

I read this thread:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showth...highlight=533w

According to HP, the "Echo" is an Asus-built board. The two Trigem-equipped models I've seen were purchased at Wal-Mart.

[Chris1992]

Re: HP 533 w/Trigem

TMS are some of the sh*ttiest caps around. It has been joked that TMS stands for Total Monkey Sh*t.

[BluBlur]

Re: HP 533 w/Trigem

Have never seen such gross looking caps. TMS gets my vote for dubious honour in bad caps list.

[Newbie2]

Re: HP 533 w/Trigem

Those TMS caps are the caps which in my list leak the most. I have a Trigem board in an anti-static bag. I checked its caps and it doesn't have TMS caps. It has United Chemi-Con caps in the place of the TMS caps go on the Trigem boards seen here. And those United Chemi-Con caps came original on that board, really! That thing was from an HP Pavilion 514n system.

[PeteS in CA]

Re: HP 533 w/Trigem

Wouldn't be surprised if HP arm-twisted the MB mfr into using UCC.

[Newbie2]

Re: HP 533 w/Trigem

I have done a cap inspection on the Trigem motherboard I got. Here are the caps on this board I got:

4x Rubycon 1500uf 16v MBZ capacitors (Low-ESR, 105°C)
10x United Chemi-Con 1500uf 6.3v KZG capacitors (Low-ESR, 105°C)
7x Sam-Young 470uf 16v SHL capacitors (General-Purpose, 85°C)
3x G-Luxon 1000uf 16v GR capacitors (General-Purpose, 85°C)


And the rest are small and very small Sam-Young General-Purpose 85°C capacitors. I can't understand why the majority of the caps are general-purpose 85°C caps on this Trigem board I have.

I have also took a picture of the United-Chemicon caps on the board. Picture below.