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How to avoid motherboard with bad caps? Go with Albatron?
This may be old news to many of you. In considering a new motherboard, I remembered an article I stumbled upon a few days ago talking about bad capacitors in motherboards manufactured in the last two years. I just Googled the topic and found some scary information. I have built three computers since 2002. One with a Tyan Trinity 510, and two others with socket A, KT266a and KT333a chipset, MSI motherboards. One was for a guy I worked with last summer. He says it still runs fine. Hope it continues to run fine. Anyway, the impression I got from the articles and postings I read was that even highly regarded motherboard manufacturers fell into this problem of using faulty caps. I won't name any of them, I'll leave that to Google. But I will name one that claims to have avoided the faulty capacitor issue, by insuring that they used the best capacitors made in Japan, Albatron. I would never have thought. I saw how cheap they where while searching on Pricewatch (I never really heard of Albatron until I searched Pricewatch), and automaticaly considered them a stability risk. I may take another look at what they have to offer. Also in my reading, Intel was not mentioned as a manufacturer that may have used faulty capacitors. Is this a non-issue with recent dual channel Pentium boards, and Athlon64/FX boards? Ed |
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