All Solid Caps- FYI!

[Wizzard1]

They DO blow. I have a graphic card, returned by a cusomter, which was sold as and built with "High Durability All-Solid Caps"... They went off like firecrackers!!

Of the 6 caps on the board, 1 of 3 16v/1F caps blew, and 2 of 2 6.3V/1F caps blew.

And of course, now it's out of warranty.

I dont think I can justify buying all solid caps again!

[Cobracon]

Sounds like the video card was zapped with a power surge. The caps will go off like popcorn.

You may have already read this about solid caps, but here goes anyway:

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/gigabytes-solid-core-capacitor-gimmick/

I'm in a 'wee-wee' contest with Giga-B***h right now with an 11 month old GA-P35-DS3R motherboard. About 2 months ago my 3DMark03/05/06 and Super Pi scores went BAAAD slow. O/S load times increased to minutes from seconds. As an example, the 1M calculation in Super Pi went from less than 14 seconds to over 50 seconds.

I moved the CPU - RAM - PSU - GPU & 'C' drive to another computer with a GA-P35-S3G motherboard and all of the speed returned.

I sent the board back to Gigabyte under their 3 year warranty. They updated the BIOS, said they could find nothing wrong, and sent it back. Upon reinstallation of said hardware, the *&^%$#@! board was still as slow as ever.

Been waiting 4 working days for the new RMA# and 'cross-ship' form to arrive via email. They're ignoring my email status requests, too. Imagine that.............

[Wizzard1]

Oh, no, I know mine was well aged. The bottom of the caps had slowly leaked on some, and one had exploded. And everything else, including the motherboards caps, were all fine.