Quote Originally Posted by ozzy214 View Post
I just did 100 pc's from a charity. These were given to them by various gov agencies like Careerlink, hospitals etc. I processed them up. 99% had blown caps. Now I dont think it was ****ty engineering or parts. I do think being left on 24/7 was the culprit. But yet who knows. Knock on wood. I built a pc in 2007 out of used parts on Ebay for my moms bday. I was ona budget and not working at the time. Specifically msi board socket 939 and a 3500+ cpu. System still runs after 6 years of being on pretty much non stop. No signs of caps blowing. Most I did is a couple windows reinstalls over the years. So maybe it is inferior parts in the dells, hps. You tell me...
Last summer I picked up a load of misc, computers, lcd monitors, etc. that came from an office environment. They had all suffered a power surge and was showing blown cap's all over the place. Sometimes it's not mfg. error.