Re: Anything worse than GSC???
It sounds like CapXon are as bad as GSC and Fuhjyyu. I was hoping they'd at least do okay on primary capacitors in PSUs. I was also hoping that CapXons would do okay in audio equipment, or at least on sound cards, though I don't condone the idea of using potentially bad capacitors in any hardware to begin with, of course. I know it was said in this thread that Fuhjyyus aren't that bad and I think for certain purposes that are lightweight enough, they may not be, but I honestly don't think they can take long term stress and heat on any echelon. I know the ones in my old FSP300-60BTV couldn't, since they were leaking on the secondary after a few years (and boot issues denoted that) and that particular PSU had nice heatsinks and a nice fan as well, and never felt hot at the back of the PSU. I honestly don't think that PSU was stressed that much, either.
But again, I agree on some level. Part of me would rather use the bad caps until they go and then replace them (not in a PSU but on other components like a motherboard or add-in card), since it kind of feels like a squandering to me otherwise. ^^; I used KZGs for 20,000 hours in a now-defunct eMachine T6536 (that computer had a MSI-7207/K8NGM2L) I used to have and they were never trouble for me until last year, though they would rarely cause me to have to power cycle twice to POST and boot without locking up at a black screen. But that was very, very rare (maybe once or twice every year?) until a couple days before it died, where I had to power cycle 5 or 6 times for it to POST/boot and reboot. I know it was the KZGs because there was a foul smell in the case after it died.
But that said, no, I don't think there are many capacitors worse than GSC.
It sounds like CapXon are as bad as GSC and Fuhjyyu. I was hoping they'd at least do okay on primary capacitors in PSUs. I was also hoping that CapXons would do okay in audio equipment, or at least on sound cards, though I don't condone the idea of using potentially bad capacitors in any hardware to begin with, of course. I know it was said in this thread that Fuhjyyus aren't that bad and I think for certain purposes that are lightweight enough, they may not be, but I honestly don't think they can take long term stress and heat on any echelon. I know the ones in my old FSP300-60BTV couldn't, since they were leaking on the secondary after a few years (and boot issues denoted that) and that particular PSU had nice heatsinks and a nice fan as well, and never felt hot at the back of the PSU. I honestly don't think that PSU was stressed that much, either.
But again, I agree on some level. Part of me would rather use the bad caps until they go and then replace them (not in a PSU but on other components like a motherboard or add-in card), since it kind of feels like a squandering to me otherwise. ^^; I used KZGs for 20,000 hours in a now-defunct eMachine T6536 (that computer had a MSI-7207/K8NGM2L) I used to have and they were never trouble for me until last year, though they would rarely cause me to have to power cycle twice to POST and boot without locking up at a black screen. But that was very, very rare (maybe once or twice every year?) until a couple days before it died, where I had to power cycle 5 or 6 times for it to POST/boot and reboot. I know it was the KZGs because there was a foul smell in the case after it died.
But that said, no, I don't think there are many capacitors worse than GSC.
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