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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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75475,451 wrote: 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 ISTR it was one bad batch of parts from a company using materials they may have known were bogus. One way or another, the mobo assembly lines found a source of good parts quickly. The inventory pipline from the parts manufacturers to the board manufacturers, to the dealer is very lean these days. Nobody keeps warehouses full of stuff anymore. The bad boards were flushed long ago. The machines you built more than a year ago may be at risk, but I wouldn't worry about capacitors in stuff you buy today. And remember, only a percentage of the boards made with these capacitors acutually fails. Today's news is that the motherboards in some Dell servers sold last fall may catch fire. It's not the last problem that bites, it's the one you haven't found yet (or hasn't found you.) -- Al Dykes ----------- |
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I think that this was an issue with some 440LX boards. A looooog
time ago, using PC time. "75475,451" wrote in message ... 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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"75475,451" wrote in message ... 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. Albatron are pretty new to the scene but the m/b's are very good, the people behind the company are ex Gigabyte. Eddy. |
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Mobo manufacturers quickly correct problems with their product, if not they
wouldn't be selling any. Forget about the capicator issue, it's long gone. Dashi "Ed" wrote in message ... "75475,451" wrote in message ... 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. Albatron are pretty new to the scene but the m/b's are very good, the people behind the company are ex Gigabyte. Eddy. |
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