Broken DELL gx270 - will you buy it?

jaydeee · Post by **jaydeee** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:30 am

Hi!
My Dell gx270 is broken. Capacitors around the CPU are leaking/bloated. I want to sell it, will you buy it? how much?

your comments are highly appreciated.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:45 am

Really?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:55 am

I highly doubt you'd be able to find a buyer for that, the age of that machine, lots of computer makes had issues with leaky/bulging capacitors due to a huge faulty batch from Taiwan that got into the tier-1 supply channels.

Even if the computer was working it's only worth about 150 bucks. It's an old socket 478..many generations old.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:14 pm

I posted about this a while back.. basically Industrial Espionage..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

I had a athlon motherboard from Gigabyte that the caps mushroomed and popped. I was ticked... Gigabyte did absolutely nothing (which I do not deal with them any more). The motherboard vendors are half to blame as they know about it, and quietly swept the problem under the rug...

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:14 pm

Yeah I had one of the earlier boards of that era cook on me, an MSI nForce based motherboard.
I school system that I did the network for, they had a huge bunch of Dells cook with that problem, Dell shipped a whole bunch of motherboard to fix them AFTER the warranty had expired. Was cool.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:25 pm

Sell it on ebay for parts, someone will buy it most likely but start the amount really low like .99cents

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:14 pm

I have or had a bunch of those.

jaydeee · Post by **jaydeee** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:15 am

thanks for your replies guys!
guess I'll repair it and donate it.

thanks again.

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:11 am

mnosteele52 wrote:Really?

I can't stop laughing