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I am just getting to know the Xbox.  Obviously the clock caps leak on the Xbox and I am assuming from my experience that the large 3300uF and 1500uF caps don't age well but what are the smaller ones like?  Can you leave them in or is it best to swap the lot?  What do people with more experience think...

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I've never really had problems with the 1500uF capacitors, same has been for the smaller ones. It's always been the 3300uF which was a bad batch from Nichicon, not helped by being right next to the heatsink.
The 1.0/1.1 which mostly had 1500s for the main motherboard caps, even near the heatsink never seem to fail either.

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On 2/23/2022 at 1:46 PM, MarkC1970 said:

I am just getting to know the Xbox.  Obviously the clock caps leak on the Xbox and I am assuming from my experience that the large 3300uF and 1500uF caps don't age well but what are the smaller ones like?  Can you leave them in or is it best to swap the lot?  What do people with more experience think...

I've had quite a lot of experience changing caps on xboxes & i've only seen bad clock caps/ CPU caps never not once have i seen any other cap go bad. All caps will fail eventually though, but those particular ones are the culprit for a lot of issues one might have with an xbox. 

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