capacitors

It's currently much simpler, supporting just resistors, inductors and capacitors, but it's very useful for teaching students electronics.

Marginal (although not always illicit; sometimes just marginally spec-ed) capacitors have long been an issue including in consumer electronics.

These cubes could be thought of as integrated circuits but were actually composed of discrete transistors, resistors, capacitors, etc.

First it was the Maxtor hard drives that went bad, then it was the capacitors popping.

Your big electrolytic capacitors are used in the AC/DC conversion where the rectified sine wave is smoothed into a constant voltage.

Dad worked at a firm that produced high-reliability capacitors (they went into the IBM System/360, etc) and they did 100% testing.

With capacitors you can also get the charge into the cells a lot faster, possibly.

Did you have to use any passive components in your design (like resistors or capacitors)?

I've done this exactly because I don't trust electrolytic capacitors to be anything more than big and cheap.

Assuming you're hoping to play more Kick Off 2 (plus a bit of Sensi perhaps;-) ), it's highly recommended to replace the capacitors, as leaking capacitors have a nasty habit of ruining old computers.

At scale your idle machine are essentially latency capacitors waiting for that sudden burst of packets that happens during the commercial breaks.

I have a feeling that, for example, the capacitors in the power supply won't last that long.

I've seen both Asus and Gigabyte market motherboards with "High Quality" "100% Japanese" capacitors.