Please note the capacitor explosion of P5K-E

[celemine1Gig]

so much for the solid cap hype

Great conclusion.

The solid caps are indeed better and you could argue as long as you wanted. This wouldn't change. It's the circuit design that makes the difference. I doubt that Asus designed this particular board for someone running his CPU at 4.6GHz with 1.65V VCore. That's the point.

Edit: Sorry, of course I meant 4.5Ghz with 1.65V VCore.

[NewBeetle]

Thank you for your comment, friedchips-san, G H Z-san, TTmodder-san, eva2000-san, El Snorro-san, stealthbomber-san, ineedaname-san, White B-san, ziddey-san, celemine1Gig-san

That looks pretty bad NewBeetle

Well if something is going to blow up, it's better a cap than something else like a CPU. Thats an interesting bug with CPU-Z, I have not seen it report falsely for quite some time.

It seems not CPU-Z's bug but P5K-E's BIOS bug.
Because CPU-Z is OK for P4-631 with P5B-D or P5K or P965-S.

NewBeetle you need to bench with safety googles/glasses

As I am a chemist, I always do benches putting on safety glasses and experiment wear.

I thougt aluminium caps did not explode/leak that easy?
What was the vcore you were running at the time of the explosion?

Vcore was 1.65V and system was not running bench but idle.

So much for solid caps

Shouldn't you have replaced the exploded cap with something slightly better higher rated max voltage/capacitance just for good measure?

As 1000μＦ/16V capacitors are used with P5B-D's EATX-12V line, I used it.
And it seems OK because I can get WR with this repaired board.

yea he should bench behind some ballistic glass. :P

Always I put it.

no kidding!

That was a very nice repair job though

It's OK because I like joke.

Great conclusion.

The solid caps are indeed better and you could argue as long as you wanted. This wouldn't change. It's the circuit design that makes the difference. I doubt that Asus designed this particular board for someone running his CPU at 4.6GHz with 1.65V VCore. That's the point.

Edit: Sorry, of course I meant 4.5Ghz with 1.65V VCore.

It is as you say.
ASUS produces good boards.
I think the defect of the capacitor caused this accident.

DEWA DEWA ～
NewBeetle

[celemine1Gig]

It is as you say.
ASUS produces good boards.
I think the defect of the capacitor caused this accident.

DEWA DEWA ～
NewBeetle

Hi NewBeetle,

I don't even think that the capacitor was defective to begin with. I rather think that it was just not rated high enough to withstand the extreme current draw of your CPU at 4.5GHz with 1.65V. It seems that this cap is filtering the 12V-EPS 8-pin power connector that is located right next to it. The CPU draws it's main power from there.
As I said, I think the ripple current just got too big for the cap, thus it exploded. If there would've been two of the these solid caps in parallel, I think they would still be OK. But the single one was just not up to the extreme task. Perhaps your replacement cap has got a higher ripple current rating, or it's just the larger physical size that let's it withstand more strain and that's why it's still OK.