[Eeyore]

dizzy wrote:

jamesgangnc top-posted:

Who would care about the life expectancy of a capcitor in a motherboard?
They are obsolete in a couple years and in the scrape pile before they are 5
years old in most cases.

Nonsense. My home PC, a Core 2 Duo running at 2.66 GHz, is 2.5 years
old now, and hardly "obsolete". In fact, there's nothing out there
today that is significantly faster. (Quad cores only help in certain
applications.)

My daughter is also quite satisfied with the performance of her (5
year old) Pentium 4 (Northwood) 3.0 GHz.

Neither of these machines was fastest available when I built them,
either.

Very wise. NEVER buy the fastest. They're the fastest for about 3 months max.

Besides, the application can make far more difference.

Graham