Harvey wrote:
Probably because you can buy a new motherboard cheaper than a set of new
capacitors for the older one.

That's nonsense. A handfull capacitors will cost between 10 and 25
dollars, a motherboard will cost between 30 and 150 dollars.

And then there's the added issue of the faulty capacitors over-stressing the
regulators making them go thermally intermittent too, resulting in hours of
wasted time spent changing the capacitors only to find the mobo is no better
or even worse than it was before you started.

It happens, but reparing a motherboard does not take 'hours'. You put in
the electrolytics, if it does not work, take them out and throw the
board in the parts bin. Have you ever noticed the name of this
newsgroup?

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Maarten Bakker.