I need about 10 capacitors for a video board, where is the best place to purchase them? I'm building some computers to do some classic gaming with the kids and one board I picked has 10 busted caps =(

Seller stated it worked fine, for the cost of a cap kit off ebay I could have just purchased another board!

I bought quality capacitors from this seller:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/egekecu?_trksid=p2053788.m1543.l2754

He's got a lot to choose from and does accept offers.

Good luck with the repairs,
G1nX

Have you tried the local electronic store? If you can't find caps cheap you can consider desoldering caps from old hardware and re-use them.

What kind of classic gaming computer are you building?  :)

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Thandor wrote on 22.09.14 at 12:12:05:

Have you tried the local electronic store? If you can't find caps cheap you can consider desoldering caps from old hardware and re-use them. What kind of classic gaming computer are you building?  :)

Oh nothing special, mostly stuff I have lying around.

Here is a list of games I have loaded up so far-

Doom, Rise of the Triads, Duke3D, Quake, Quake II, Quake 3, Quake 4, SOF I and II, Jedi Knight Dark Forces II, Unreal, UT 2003, Serious Sam I and II, Unreal Tournament, Half-Life, Doom3, Aliens vs Predator II, Fry Cry, Call of Duty, Deus Ex, etc.

I have some newer hardare that was obtained for nothing with good XP keys I have been sprucing up.

Kyle is currently using a LAN Party box with AMD 1700+ and a 6200 AGP but I almost have in operation a HP workstation that has a dual core 1.8 ghz with a PCI-e slot. I picked up an E6600 CPU and 2 gig of ram for next to nothing, had a spare 360 gig drive and picked up 2 PCI-e boards for the cost of shipping. One is an ATI board and the other an Nvida 7600 GS with all the busted caps.

Jacob is running the last AGP machine, it had a Celeron 2.4 but was upgraded to a P4 2.66 and Thursday will be upgraded again to a 3.06 HT come Thursday. It has a 300 gig IDE drive and a 5200 AGP. By the weekend it should have a 7600 AGP which is almost the fastest AGP board you can get. There is a 7800 and a 7900 but more than I want to put into a fun project.

I have been tinkering around with an 939 System (Asus A8N-SLI) that has been on the shelf I almost wrote off as unstable. Stripped another machine with a dead board for its power supply and 3500+ CPU and the thing has been rock stable.

There is a X2 CPU on the way for it and I just upgraded the 6600GT video board with a 650 GTX, holy heck! Have graphic cards progressed in the last several years! Little thing is a beast, makes me marvel at what its faster and new boards run at.

Duke3D with Hi-Res pack has been fun and I have been blowing off steam with Duke4ever, FEAR looks fantastic. It laughs at Doom 3 with everything turned on.

We have 3 way Quake3 deathmatches in the workshop which is a riot, I actually have 4 systems setup if they bring a friend over.

They love Serious Sam I and II and the older one is a dead eye shot with the railgun and Quake III.

G1nX wrote on 22.09.14 at 11:55:37:

I bought quality capacitors from this seller: http://www.ebay.com/usr/egekecu?_trksid=p2053788.m1543.l2754 He's got a lot to choose from and does accept offers. Good luck with the repairs, G1nX

I'll check 'em out thanks.

No need to waste funds on caps, card is totally dead. On the other hand the X1950 works great and runs like the wind! ATI's drivers still leave a bit to be desired though.

Just found DOSBox, what a joy! Played Dark Forces for an hour.

Still loading the machines up- Half-Life II and Episode one and two are popular, finally got Max Payne working under XP right, Jedi Knight II is working. Found my Chasm disc, what a forgotten jewel that was!

Nice games Gary. Especially the classics like Doom and Quake but I'd imagine they rather play Half-Life 2 instead :P.

DOSBox is a miracle in the software world! I don't play games that much but if I do then most of them are being run with DOSBox. Recently I've even played Doom co-operative using DOSBox!

And Chasm... I wasn't much of a fan but I was amazed how fluent it ran on a 486 DX2/66. They did a good programming job there :).