Thanks for this, will be trying it out with several cards this fall! (Specifically, AWE64/CT4520, ES1868F, CS4236B and ALS100+.)

Besides making sure you choose the right capacity, voltage (can be higher than original) and dimensions, ideally you recap the board with capacitors that have the same or lower ESR as the original capacitors. You can look up the ESR of capacitors in the datasheet of each series. Electrolytic …

Quick update: caps and recap job seem fine - been fighting with the other board (MSI 694T Pro) for more than the past day (far more hours than I'd like - I'll blame being an aspie) to try and get it working properly. It posts now, which is more than it did when I last tried it, but when using a 1200 …

Panasonic FR, Nichicon HV, and Rubycon ZLH are all pretty much the same specs, at least in that 1500uF 6.3V 8x20mm size. What's the difference between the Nichicon HV and UHV series? Tried looking through the spec sheets, maybe I'm missing something? The "U" is in front of the part number but it's …

shamino wrote on 2020-09-06, 23:51: Panasonic FR, Nichicon HV, and Rubycon ZLH are all pretty much the same specs, at least in that 1500uF 6.3V 8x20mm size. What's the difference between the Nichicon HV and UHV series? Tried looking through the spec sheets, maybe I'm missing something?

Tried a 100MHz bus speed (6.5x multiplier, and 2/3 AGP ofc), with no luck there either. :( It's frustrating to not get any video signal at all anymore, considering I got one when booting it up the first time. The AGP overclock is of some concern, I had thought that at least one of my cards would …

Update: Tried removing everything, checking for any visible damage whatsoever (there's none on the motherboard, the CPU, the PSU, the RAM or any of the two graphics cards I've been using), and I thought I'd try to set the settings manually via the board's DIP switches. (6.5x133, AGP at 2/3 of bus …

Looking at the other thread, it seemed everything worked perfectly fine on their system except getting into the BIOS, until they tried another cpu and it miraculously worked. Is that true for yours too? As others in that thread stated, wouldn't it be odd for a capacitor issue to block getting into …

I unfortunately lack a decent multimeter (I know, I really should get one ^^), my PSU tester shows good output on all rails though. :) Sure, that's without any load, but it's practically a brand new Seasonic unit (I'd ballpark it at around a hundred or so hours of usage in a P4 build, and it worked …

I just got myself a good deal on a Abit BX133-RAID, a 866MHz P3 (SL4CB) and a 256MB PC133 SDRAM stick - seller claims they were working fine when he tested them. Along with an otherwise good config (Seasonic S12II 520W - good 3.3V and 5V rails on it, along with a Connect3D Radeon 9250), I get a …

Got a few compact ones directly inserted into the IDE port of the motherboard, and a couple with rear bracket mounts - pros and cons to both. 😀

No luck on the PC/PCI connector, and old-school computer shops in the area are sadly quite rare. Know of a few out in the countryside, might try to check them. (For either a YMF724/744 or an Aureal Vortex 2 - might get lucky, but feels like the chance is slim.) Hmm... if looking at SB16/SBPro …

Sadly, shipping to Sweden is $20-22 on top of the item price for those. 😒 Haven't been able to find any options with cheaper shipping either. But if the cards are good enough, might just be worth it. Any other of the options seem decent, or are the Vortex 2 cards my best bet?

So, I know this question has been asked before (spent hours searching for a good answer to it), but I can't seem to find anything conclusive or recent enough. I hope it's ok for me to ask the question (yay, first post), and I hope someone has good input! So, I recently bought a Compaq Deskpro EN ( …