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Power Supply question

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NateCooke

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Not sure if I'm in the right forum, but I never noticed this problem until I started OCing.

I had a MSI K7-Master (AMD760) for about a year and a half, and when I was replacing it with my new mobo, I noticed that the caps around the CPU socket had expanded a bit. The board ran fine still but it sure looked like it was near the end. I thought "crappy mobo, never buy MSI again" and replaced the board.

My new board is a Leadtek Winfast K7NCR18D Pro (nForce2). I ran this (non-OCed) for about 4 or 5 months, then the same thing started happening with this board as well. The caps around the CPU were expanding.

Initially I thought "bad Power Supply", and I just recently replaced it, but I'm now having all kinds of trouble OCing. I'm trying to get a new Barton 2500+ to run at 190FSB and even at 1.8v, the machine will spontaneously reboot. Heat isn't the issue, I have my BIOS set to sound an alarm as soon as I hit 50C, and it hasn't gone off. My ram is Kingston PC3200.

I'm going to try hooking this PC up to a different outlet when I get home, but has anyone seen this before? Am I getting dirty power from my outlet?
 
If you have a digital camera post some pics of those capacitors. I'd like to see what you deem as expanding. I've personally had to replace caps on my m/b before, and may be able to help you.
 
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