G-Luxon on GA-6VXC7-4X

[stevo1210]

I found a computer on the street yesterday.... It has a Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X motherboard in it and also bundled with a PIII 800EB Coppermine CPU.
It boots fine and loads Windows without a problem etc. But when I opened the case up to take a look, it had a bad cap next to the IDE connector. The cap is a G-Luxon 330uf 25V. The rest of the board has Sanyo caps and they are OK, there are other G-Luxon used in between PCI sots and thats about it.
So I looked through my cap stash yesterday and I found a Hitano 470uf 25V cap in there that fits the position as well, because the diameter is also 10mm. Anyway, can I use this 470uf cap to replace the bulging 330uf cap?? I noticed that from 330uf to 470uf, there's over a 20% difference so I'm not sure about this move.

Thanks.

[stevo1210]

Re: G-Luxon on GA-6VXC7-4X

Never mind.... I went out and bought some Samxon GF(M) series, 470uf 25V caps because they were ultra low ESR and it seems to have done the job.

Thanks.

[linuxguru]

Re: G-Luxon on GA-6VXC7-4X

Most, if not all, of the 330/25 caps on Gigabyte mobos don't have a voltage greater than 5v across them - they can be replaced by 6.3v caps. If you want to be really safe, you can use 16v caps. The capacitance doesn't really matter - I've used 1000/10 without any problems.