MarkC1970 Posted February 23, 2022 Report Share Posted February 23, 2022 I am just getting to know the Xbox. Obviously the clock caps leak on the Xbox and I am assuming from my experience that the large 3300uF and 1500uF caps don't age well but what are the smaller ones like? Can you leave them in or is it best to swap the lot? What do people with more experience think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolofski Posted February 24, 2022 Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 ive had a few 1.6's with the 3300 caps bulging by the power connector, theres 5 of them. apart from that ive never had much issue with the others (apart from the clock cap of course) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lina_Inverse_ Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 (edited) I've never really had problems with the 1500uF capacitors, same has been for the smaller ones. It's always been the 3300uF which was a bad batch from Nichicon, not helped by being right next to the heatsink. The 1.0/1.1 which mostly had 1500s for the main motherboard caps, even near the heatsink never seem to fail either. Edited April 30, 2022 by Lina_Inverse_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnie-Burger Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 There's not many big caps on motherboard and the replacement caps are super cheap so might as well replace all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted May 1, 2022 Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 7 hours ago, Donnie-Burger said: There's not many big caps on motherboard and the replacement caps are super cheap so might as well replace all of them. I concur. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackedLynx Posted July 25, 2022 Report Share Posted July 25, 2022 On 2/23/2022 at 1:46 PM, MarkC1970 said: I am just getting to know the Xbox. Obviously the clock caps leak on the Xbox and I am assuming from my experience that the large 3300uF and 1500uF caps don't age well but what are the smaller ones like? Can you leave them in or is it best to swap the lot? What do people with more experience think... I've had quite a lot of experience changing caps on xboxes & i've only seen bad clock caps/ CPU caps never not once have i seen any other cap go bad. All caps will fail eventually though, but those particular ones are the culprit for a lot of issues one might have with an xbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.