[ale] Who's Your Mother...

[Dow Hurst]

I read about the capacitors too.  Seems to be mainly in really lowend 
cheapo mobo's from what the article stated.  Thanks for the info on the 
temps.  I have the XP1800 and it runs about 60C all the time.  My 
airflow isn't the best but definitely it is a hot chip!
Dow


Van L. Loggins wrote:

> I just recently built myself a new computer at home. I used an Epox 
> 8RDA+ Nforce2 based MB in it.
>
> this is my first Motherboard from Epox but I am very impressed with 
> it, with the AMD Athlon XP 2400 t'bred Revision B core cpu I have 
> paired with this MB along with the Volcano 9 Heatsink and fan I am 
> getting very cool cpu temps, even when I overclock the chip by 
> dropping the multiplier and raising the frontside bus to 166 MHz from 
> the stock 133 MHz. cpu temps on this unit just barely break 30 Celsius 
> unless I overclock it.
>
> my System at work is running an Abit KR7A-133 with an AMD Athlon XP 
> 1800 Palomino core that has always ran fairly hot. I have it paired 
> with a volcano 6cu+ and have never been able to get this system's cpu 
> to stay cooler than the mid 40's (celsius)
>
> No major problems out of either systems, however I have had problems 
> recently with a MSI motherboard that I bought less than a year ago 
> that has popped 4 capacitors. and believe me MSI has been giving me 
> the run around about replacing it. If I had been overclocking the 
> system (which I wasn't) then I wouldn't have even attempted to get the 
> motherboard replaced. but if I buy something that has a 1 year 
> warranty and it craps and dies on me less than 8 months from when I 
> bought it I expect the company to replace it.
>
> Maximum PC magazine has a small article in this months issue about the 
> bursting capacitor problem, it seems a inferior lot of capacitors got 
> dispersed throught the electronics manufacturers of the world and we 
> will be seeing the effects for a long time to come.
>
> any thoughts on this one guys?
>
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 19:44:07 +0900
>> From: Keith Hopkins <hne at hopnet.net>
>> Organization: Hopkins Network Engineering
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: [ale] Who's Your Mother...
>> Reply-To: ale at ale.org
>>
>> In order of preference:
>>
>> For servers:
>>   Tyan, SuperMicro, Asus, Gigabyte
>>
>> For desktops:
>>   Asus, Gigabyte, ABit, MSI, IWill
>>
>> For small-footprint application specific designs using a generic 
>> mobo....
>>   Via Epia, Shuttle
>>
>>  
>>
>
>

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