On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:18:34 +0100, Kris Steenhaut wrote:

>I bought 3 of them in about the same time.
>
>The first died after 2 years and 2 months.
>The second died after 2 years and 7 months.
>The third died after 2 years and 11 months.

My records were 2 years and 11.5 months with 8KHA+, and 2 years and
11.75 months (oops!) with 4BDA2+.

>Looks to me very much like inbuild wear.

In my case, degrading capacitors were the cause - this is not something
that only affects Epox (although it seems that the rather featureless
Shuttle mainboards from 2002 stood well through this test).

>>What else do you want to know?
>>
>Never Epox anymore.

I always reserve an option to reassess them a few years later.
Otherwise, "brandophobia" would be just as pointless as the bigoted
"brandophilia".




 
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