Reply 20 of 28, by BitWrangler
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iraito wrote on 2024-06-17, 16:59:I still don't understand the randomness of life expectancy for caps, i have an amiga 1200 with old caps (i checked myself during repairs) 30+ old caps and they are still working, no bulging no nothing, then you check something way newer with so called high quality caps and they are plagued.
IMO there's a design factor... if you design in a lot of latitude, it can use any caps, whatever is cheapest that month, which is why PC Chips and ECS still often work with bulgy caps and anything you can scrape up to put on them works fine... others are finely tuned tight tolerance engineering with no margin for error, needing highest spec caps in perfect condition... Asus seems to be like this... if the takeoffs from the ASUS are still +/- 20%, not leaking, throw them on an ECS.
Also PSU are a factor, if your PSU is putting out spiky shit, it will hammer the motherboard caps, maximisalating the deathalisation.
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