On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:16:14 UTC, Tim S wrote:

Talking of which, slashdot's been carrying various articles about Gigabyte
boasting about using solid capacitors on some of their mobos for longevity.
Apparantly, the people were having grief with electrolytics blowing after
3-4 years - which seemed strange as I've had 20 year old hot running
electronics (amplifiers and TVs for example) which managed to not exhibit
that problem. More likely some berk bought a load of cheap crap caps for
some production runs and got the electrolytics a bad name, so maketing
stepped in and made a "feature" of the whole debacle.

There was a well known capacitor fiasco a few years ago, wheer (AFAIR)
there was some faulty 'cloning' of a manufacturer's products. The faulty
items went into *many* motherboards. They may or may not have been
electrolytic, but 'faulty caps' is probably a good bit of propaganda
now.
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