What motherboard brands have good caps?

[Tbonejr]

I just found that I have some bads caps on my board. Im going to try and repair the board but I want to buy another board for a new computer. What brands are out there that I can be fairly certain will have good caps ?

Thanks for any help in this matter

[hkivan]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Biostar T series

[icemon]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Gigabit is hyping a line of boards with solid caps only.

[tazwegion]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Yes, I must say those Gigabyte 965(chipset) boards look impressive

[toastygoodness]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

yes, impressively, Biostar is using better caps than their owner, MSI, who is also much more expensive. Gigabyte is also starting to use all solid caps, and the normal lytic caps are usually nichicons, panasonics, or rubycons. Shuttle also is starting to use some good caps, but remains using OST for like maybe 5/32 caps. they are the small caps though. Supermicro and Intel definitely have good caps, but those are workstation or server-class motherboards.

[MD Willington]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Yep my Biostar T series is alive and kicking for running almost 24/7 for over a year, my wife like to leave it on all the time...

[Shroomie]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Biostar's doing well nowadays then? My M7VIG-400 (KM266Pro) has all OST and G-Luxon. Good to hear that they've improved!

Intel boards in general, that I've seen, have had good caps, aside from the bad run of Nichicon HM/HNs, which weren't Intel's fault.

[toastygoodness]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Bad news, folks. I got a TForce 6100 and it has all-solid caps + UCC for the caps next to the CPU, but OST and RLP in a lot of the other places. all small ones and mixed with UCC KZE/KZG though. still better than the ASUS i would have gotten, just checked that out in the store and it is like, 100% OST.

[RoadKill]

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abit, which solely use Rubycon

[Super Nade]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Most expensive MB's these days have good caps.

ASUS-Sanyo/Oscon, Nichion, UCC
Intel/Foxconn-Nichion (and some Rubycon on Xeon boards)
DFI-Nichion, UCC, Sanyo/Oscon
Gigabyte- Sanyo/Oscon

[bgavin]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Intel boards in general, that I've seen, have had good caps, aside from the bad run of Nichicon HM/HNs, which weren't Intel's fault.

I have an Intel D915GAG board that came from a customer's Gateway 500GR. It is populated with the classic Nichicon HM/HN that have spewed out their guts.

The client left the whole machine (3.0 GHz, 1gb DDR, 200 SATA), so I recapped what I had in stock. Topcat is sending me a handful of 1500/16v/10mm to finish the VRM caps that I didn't have stock to do.

The board works pretty well, partially capped. It has a freeze in both CMOS setup and W2000AS. Hopefully capping the VRM will do the trick.

[Jor3llBR]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

I just got a cheap C2D system and the ASRock 4coredual-vsta has these caps:

- Near CPU: TK's (atwy) and OST's (rlx).
- Near DDR slots: fat Nichicon's (hm) and these that I could not find a brand:
What are those?

More pics all around:
CPU
All around

So what you guys think about this cheap mobo caps (US$38.00)?

[Super Nade]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Those OST's are in the worst possible spot for a cheap crappy cap...

[Jor3llBR]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

Those OST's are in the worst possible spot for a cheap crappy cap...

Agreed!

[toastygoodness]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

abit, which solely use Rubycon

wrong. after they got bought by Universal and became Universal abit, they now use G-Luxon and OSTs, but with solid caps sometimes.

[gastorgrab]

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What are those?

They look like the GSC's i've pulled out ........... ....but the tops of yours are flat for some reason.
.

[Newbie2]

Re: What motherboard brands have good caps?

I one time upgraded my cousin's video card in his HP Pavilion a1700n PC before. The motherboard was some ASUS motherboard, and all it had that I could see were Panasonic caps (navy blue caps with Panasonic T vent). He didn't recap it, those Panasonic caps came with that ASUS board.

I don't know if this applies to regular ASUS boards, since this one was made for HP.