The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-28 17:26 (UTC-0500):
> Not that I've been able to detect. I obviously can't inspect the inside
> of the PSU without in-depth surgery, but I did give the capacitors etc.
> on the motherboard a once-over during the last swap-out, and didn't
> notice anything apparently out of order.
IME, the problem with electrolytics was solved a decade or more ago by switching
motherboards to polys. The PS makers didn't and still haven't done that AFAICT.
GPU needing both 6 wire and 8 wire dedicated power connectors smells like power
hunger that an old PS with tired caps couldn't handle, notwithstanding its
ostensible overprovisioning-rated output.
Most PSes only require 4 screws removed to get the cover off far enough to
inspect
the usual cluster of candidate caps adjacent to where most wires feeding out
connect to the board.
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