High failure rates on msi motherboards

[Galdorf]

I have been getting ALOT of failures of caps under the heatsinks on 775 msi motherboards.

They have been changed from electrolytic capacitors to solid the electrolytic fail so often its not funny.

Only way i could see it was to remove the stock cpu heatsink.

 

[angry_geek]

Just one of the many reasons I haven't used MSI in the last 5 years.

 

[dhrandy]

I've did several MSI build without problems. I haven't used any cheap MSI boards though.

 

[NYJimbo]

They have been changed from electrolytic capacitors to solid the electrolytic fail so often its not funny.

I have been using MSI, gigabyte and other boards with the new solid caps for a while now and not had any problems. Maybe you have seen a bad batch. Your photo looks like stock stuff, do you have a picture of a solid cap showing signs of fail ?

For example, check this:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/NewTech/2006_motherboard_newtech/article_02_all_solid.htm