And Dell managed to get on my nerves today...

[Volt]

Originally Posted by JE3146

All depends really.... to me.. I'd replace them, but that's cus I don't have 400$ coin to drop on a new motherboard. And we're not talking 270$ boxes for dual Xeon. Server grade stuff carries a higher price tag.

With a solder sucker and some flux, I could do 50 replacements in a few hours. Most tedious part would be recording polarity.

Whoops, yep I got distracted with the caps and my past experience with the GX260s/GX270's, completely missed the level workstation. Did a run on a cheap Precision T3500 64bit with a small RAID 5, $1,700.

Depending on the age of the machine, the reliability required and when it needs to be back up, it may be new server is required. If the piggy says no $$$, maybe buy the kit and and install it. I would wager a years' worth of cigars though, unless it's done by someone who has 2M skills and a 2M workstation, it will be an expensive failure. Those caps are a tight fit and power caps have to be done right.