This is what heat does to even the best Japanese caps

This isn't a PSU, but it's PSU related. I work in IT in a hospital, and I had to replace a computer from late 2004 as part of our Windows 7 migration. Mind you, this computer still works. Slow as heck, but still works. I bring it back to the office to pull the HDD, and I happen to see this.



Now, the exhaust fan right next to this has long since had the sleeve bearing fail, so there was no airflow over these capacitors. And they are almost touching the CPU Heatsink. And it's a Pentium 4. Yeah, ouch.



These are also Rubycons, I looked them up. So high quality Japanese caps, + 10 years, + lots of heat. I honestly can't believe this thing still actually booted and ran, I would have expected this to fail years ago with caps like these.



Anyway, thought people on here would enjoy this.

This is what heat does to even the best Japanese caps