Solid State Capacitors (Caps)

[Parker]

Originally Posted by garetjax

Here's food for thought. When the hell is EVGA going to produce an nVidia based motherboard that uses solid capacitors? For the amount of money that they charge for their 680i and 780i enthusiast boards, you would think they'd have gone with solid caps on them. It's a bit annoying to see people shelling out $250-$300 for a 780i motherboard by EVGA that still uses the old school capacitors, where ASUS has been using solid caps in nearly all their motherboard offerings for a very long time.

Thats exactly what I asked in another thread.
EVGA is just slow at these things thats all...

[One4yu2c]

Originally Posted by garetjax

Granted, EVGA will be releasing the 780i FTW which promises solid capacitors, but, of course, you will also be paying extra to have that privilege. Bah.

And there's the rub. Before Intel burst onto the scene with the Core 2 architecture, one of the big draws with AMD was the enthusiast oriented NVIDIA chipsets. Not only were AMD's processors kicking ass, but investing in an enthusiast level motherboard wouldn't break the bank. The same couldn't be said when hopping over to Intel. It was tough to argue against a $100ish Barton 2500+ coupled with a $100ish Asus A7N8X or Abit NF-S rev2.

Now it's a different ballgame. NVIDIA chipsets are no longer primarily an AMD based solution, and they're seeing that enthusiasts have deeper pockets than the AMD glory days may have let on. Instead of $150-$175 for a high end board, you're now looking at $350+, and one way to get to that price point is to tout solid state caps, 8-phase power designs, and other enticements. They're nice to have, and can help when going for that record breaking overclock, but it's hard to say that any board is worth that kind of money.

[theburan]

I do love how my 100 dollar gigabyte board is largely solid state caps... not 100%, but it's not one of their d series p965 boards either.

[Lead Head]

When I hear solid state capacitor, I think the SMD capacitors, the one on the bottom left. When I hear solid capacitor, I think like what was posted here earlier, the aluminum ones

[Parker]

Originally Posted by theburan

I do love how my 100 dollar gigabyte board is largely solid state caps... not 100%, but it's not one of their d series p965 boards either.

Thats one thing I like about gigabyte, most of there boards have solid caps.

Great info BTW Paul and Lead Head.

[Yellowhello]

I know Abit had problems with caps leaking before, but now a days how much of a problem is caps leaking? I mean, why would you use solid caps over regular caps today? Peace of mind?

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Yellowhello

....I mean, why would you use solid caps over regular caps today? Peace of mind?

If you read through this thread you can find your answer!

[Yellowhello]

Originally Posted by Parker

If you read through this thread you can find your answer!

Um, so I guess they're more efficient? I'm not sure how the temperature of the caps matter...:dontknow: please enlighten me!

[RangerXLT8]

Heh on OCForums this guy has pics of a Asus P5K Premium with 2 caps that busted when he was running DICE, the two caps closest to the 12V CPU Power plug. And the P5K Premium has Solid State Caps.

[garetjax]

Originally Posted by Yellowhello

I mean, why would you use solid caps over regular caps today? Peace of mind?

Regular capacitors are cheaper to make would be my guess, manufacturing process and/or tech that goes into making one...