[sdiy] "Boutique" capacitors

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
>On Friday 04 February 2005 10:59 pm, Heitor Alves wrote:
>> I've been reparing computers for about 10 years... since the Pentium 2
>> hit the market, its very usual to motherboards have theyr 2200uF caps
>> blown... not only from VIA FDI but even from Intel boards. 80% of the
>> mainboards problems derive from that problem... even my own board had
>> 2 times some caps substituted with sucsess... its a market thing i
>> believe... no mainboard is made to live for more than 1.5 to 2 years
>> of intense use (24hrs on).
>
>Uh oh.    :-(
>
>Looking at my uptime on this machine,  it's sitting at 184 days plus.

Gee, I've got 4 machines that have been on 24x7 for more than 5 years. 
Another one has been running over 7 years also powered on 24x7.  I buy
mainboards from the computer swap meet, they were all brand new.  I've
never heard of such a specification, official or otherwise as 1.5 to 2
years max, and I've not seen that in practice either.



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