Core 2 Duo E7500, 6GB DDR2
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P, 640GB WD Caviar Black
XFX Radeon 4850 (with one six-pin PCI-E connector)
Delta DPS-400RB PSU
I built this as my main rig a bit over a year ago and plan to keep this bad girl in service for a good ten years or possibly more. She usually sees 12 hours or more of on-time per day.
The only thing that concerns me is that my Delta PSU has CapXon, Taicon, and Ltec caps. 370forlife did an awesome writeup of it (he is the one who recommended this PSU to me) here:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...19&postcount=3
Although it's a Delta and I'm sure it will run forever as-is, I would like to recap it. While I'm in there I would like to add a standby LED, like some of the older Bestecs have. A small LED next to the power plug that lights whenever the PSU is plugged into power. I would imagine I can achieve this by hooking the LED to +5vstandby and using a resistor to bring down the voltage for the LED.
I will get a full list of the caps in there tomorrow.
The CapXon primaries look awful small. Would putting in some primaries with a bit higher uF hurt in any way?
The fan is a temperature-controlled Yate Loon. I think it will be fine as-is.
Thoughts and advice?
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P, 640GB WD Caviar Black
XFX Radeon 4850 (with one six-pin PCI-E connector)
Delta DPS-400RB PSU
I built this as my main rig a bit over a year ago and plan to keep this bad girl in service for a good ten years or possibly more. She usually sees 12 hours or more of on-time per day.
The only thing that concerns me is that my Delta PSU has CapXon, Taicon, and Ltec caps. 370forlife did an awesome writeup of it (he is the one who recommended this PSU to me) here:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...19&postcount=3
Although it's a Delta and I'm sure it will run forever as-is, I would like to recap it. While I'm in there I would like to add a standby LED, like some of the older Bestecs have. A small LED next to the power plug that lights whenever the PSU is plugged into power. I would imagine I can achieve this by hooking the LED to +5vstandby and using a resistor to bring down the voltage for the LED.
I will get a full list of the caps in there tomorrow.
The CapXon primaries look awful small. Would putting in some primaries with a bit higher uF hurt in any way?
The fan is a temperature-controlled Yate Loon. I think it will be fine as-is.
Thoughts and advice?
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