Hello everyone, my name is Jeremy and I've been hangin out here for the past few day just taking it all in. I just can't believe these little caps have caused such havock in modern electronics, quite interesting though. Although my problem is not of the same nature this site covers I'm hopeful you gentalmen will have some words of wisdom to offer up.
So heres my problem...


This is a P5N32-SLI Deluxe I just puchased on ebay, it is a factory refurb RMA from ASUS and came with no warranty of any kind. I have not fired it up yet as I do not have all the components necessary to do so but I'm fairly confident it is still functional. The part that burns my ass is that there was this "red dot" sticker over top of it as seen in the following photo...I assume to cover up the evidnece but by who? It was in a sealed electrostatic bag and RMA box supposidly from the manufacturer.

In any case I would like your opinions about this. I will be overclocking a Pentium D with this MOBO and I don't want a shorted cap to destroy anything. Based on information found on this excelent site I know its a Fujitsu FPCAP RE series L8 type I need to get my hands on but holy shit what a challange! So far my only options seem to be one os-con mismatch at roughly $20.00 or a matched set at $150.00...thats twice what I paid for the board! Any thoughts?
Jeremy
So heres my problem...
This is a P5N32-SLI Deluxe I just puchased on ebay, it is a factory refurb RMA from ASUS and came with no warranty of any kind. I have not fired it up yet as I do not have all the components necessary to do so but I'm fairly confident it is still functional. The part that burns my ass is that there was this "red dot" sticker over top of it as seen in the following photo...I assume to cover up the evidnece but by who? It was in a sealed electrostatic bag and RMA box supposidly from the manufacturer.
In any case I would like your opinions about this. I will be overclocking a Pentium D with this MOBO and I don't want a shorted cap to destroy anything. Based on information found on this excelent site I know its a Fujitsu FPCAP RE series L8 type I need to get my hands on but holy shit what a challange! So far my only options seem to be one os-con mismatch at roughly $20.00 or a matched set at $150.00...thats twice what I paid for the board! Any thoughts?
Jeremy
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