My EVGA 133-K8-NF41 has leaky/buldgeing cap.

[tbogstad]

Motherboard has a single leaky cap i can see near the 24 pin PSU connector.

Thats how i noticed it, I was gonna upgrade the PSU form a Antec EA-430 to a new Enhance 500WATT PSU.

I hope EVGA will honor there lifetime warranty, which is what they said it had when purchased with the 7800GT combo deal about 3 1/2 years ago at NEWEGG.

This sucks, I really have not noticed any problems with the computer crashing or anything, as i did on my Epox and Abit boards that had leaky caps.

Anybody RMA a motherboard to EVGA before????

I have RMA'ed several video card before and got free upgrades each time, but never a motherboard.

[Meaker]

If you said that was the problem they will likely just solder a new cap on [yes]

[LuckyNV]

Lifetime warranty is only available if you registered the product within 30 days of purchase, otherwise its just 1 year.

Given its extreme age I doubt they have any spare hanging around and may give you something more recent forcing you to upgrade.

[tbogstad]

yeah back in 2005 you did not have to register for the lifetime warranty to be good, so I checked and it is under lifetime warranty.

I applied for a RMA, should be approved in a day or 2.

RMA approved, I have to ship it in now.

[LuckyNV]

Ok cool, these days you need to reg for the life time warranty, let us know how you get on.

Like I mentioned earlier, be prepared for non-availability for a direct replacement.

EVGA only make Nvidia based Intel boards and they aren't really a recommended option unless you're desperate for SLI on a core2 platform.

Try and get a 750i at least (650 and 680 are a big no-no)

[Thresher]

Probably cheaper to buy a new cap and solder it on than shipping will cost you. [rofl]

[tbogstad]

Probably cheaper to buy a new cap and solder it on than shipping will cost you. [rofl]

I know but i want to keep my lifetime warrranty intact, so hopefully i will get a New board for free, gotta love free upgrades.

I can sell my X2 3800+ 939 socket cpu on ebay for about what a new E5200 goes for. so a nice free upgrade would be sweet, or AM3/AM3 board would be nice too.

Not to mention SLI 939 boards go for good money on Ebay too, like $70.00 to $100.00, I love selling old gear for a profit on Ebay.

I shipped the board out yesterday USPS Parcel Post, in the original Plastic shell, should be there in a week, weighed over 4lbs and cost me $10.13 with tracking.

Hopefully I will get the non-availability for a direct replacement email and get a free upgrade.

[tbogstad]

got board back from RMA about a week ago.

it was a newer version 2.3 looks new, but cant be sure, is nice and clean, no dust or anything on it.

just finish putting it all together right now.

X2 v3800+ at 2.33ghz right now

2 x 9600GSO 768mb
4 x 1gb pc3200 ram

am about to bench in 06

any predections???

no problems installing Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP1

8587 in 06 same as with 1x 8800gs 384mb, seems about right, i figured sli would do nothing till maybe 3ghz cpu speed, if I ever get there.

[LuckyNV]

judging by the RAM amount the 9600GSO is just a renamed 8800GS.

You should have higher score with SLI, make sure it really is enabled.

[tbogstad]

judging by the RAM amount the 9600GSO is just a renamed 8800GS.

You should have higher score with SLI, make sure it really is enabled.

how do i do that???