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Old 02-03-2010, 01:21 PM   #3
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Default Re: And Dell managed to get on my nerves today...

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Originally Posted by Volt View Post
Gotta agree, before I swap out 50 caps (I am an electronics type) on a PC MOBO, I'm dropping $270 for a new box. My time is worth more than what it would take to swap out the caps. Especially on a MOBO that is a few years old already. And your correct, once you replace the obvious one, you have to replace the rest. There is no way of know if they were damaged, going to fail soon as they are crap as well, etc.
All depends really.... to me.. I'd replace them, but that's cus I don't have 400$ coin to drop on a new motherboard. And we're not talking 270$ boxes for dual Xeon. Server grade stuff carries a higher price tag.

With a solder sucker and some flux, I could do 50 replacements in a few hours. Most tedious part would be recording polarity.
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