I have a Dell Optiplex SX 280, with several blown and leaking caps.

I'm not an electrician and never did any board work, but figured ... what the heck, I've got nothing really to lose.

I was about to purchase the recommended polymer cap package (because of the higher thermal rating) but then noticed that the values (uF) for serveral of the poly caps were significanlty lower than the original and replacment lytic caps.

This gave me pause because I seem to remember that a replacment cap's value should be as close a possible to the original, and the...

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Hi, Been around computers all my life. My dad worked at IBM for over 30 years and was on the final test line for the 1401, 360, and 370 mainframes. When I was kid I remember him coming home with tubes and wire guns-before IC. I think we actually owned the very first model IBM PC, even before it went retail. Now, I seem to spend most of my free time keeping our home PC operating, and remember next to nothing about electroinics (actually, I'm an ecologist!). So now I've got a couple old computers that have blown caps, and figured...