Subj : Capacitors in older machines
To   : All
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Sep 24 2026 02:10 pm


BH> SD> But my particular GX620 was a very good computer and I got
BH> SD> my $10 out of i many times over.  Its power supply was
BH> SD> rather iffy but again, Dell's proprietary power supplies of
BH> SD> that era tended to have the bleeding caps issues also. 
BH> SD>
BH> Well, by then computers were well into the "churn out crap"
BH> days for the  masses :(

Don't all capacitors eventually leak or pop, or do they actually make "higher 
quality" ones that don't?

Mike

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