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First post, by Rikintosh

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I mean, has anyone ever gone to the trouble of putting quality parts on a motherboard with crappy components?

Today I was remembering that in mid 2006, I had an AMD K6-2 550mhz computer on an M748lmrt Xcell 2000 board that was extremely unstable. That was my everyday computer, and it gave me a lot of problems, until one day, I found in a forum a guy who made a tutorial on how to "fix" the motherboard, basically he discovered that in addition to bad quality capacitors, there were some components undersized for the work they were supposed to do, and that caused instability. I decided to follow the tutorial and changed the components, and the board magically became stable and with a much better performance.

Nowadays, it's hard to find some things like socket 7 AT motherboards, and sometimes I see low quality things like PC Chips, ECS, and other less prestigious brands. I was thinking, maybe it's useful these days, this knowledge on how to make low cost boards reliable and stable

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Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

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Yes good idea. Like many have recapped boards due to faulty caps, some from age and some just because they were crappy to begin with. ECS K7S5A comes to mind, recapped one long ago before it would have failed and still works great,
wish I would have recapped the other one at same time as it's caps failed recently 🙁

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Reply 2 of 2, by Repo Man11

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I recapped an Amptron/PCChips M930LMR board that I got for free just because I enjoy doing things like that. It's proven to be a reliable and stable Windows 98 machine in spite of both Amptron and SiS being considered second rate.

After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?