Was there a good Chhsi capacitor era, or are they all rubbish?

[browny1978]

I have a MS-6156 mobo from about mid 1999, and the whole board is covered in them, but they all look fine. Should I replace them or leave them be? The reason why I ask is I'm replacing a load of chhsi caps on a few later msi mobos from a 2000-01 which are bulging and was wondering if it is worthwhile changing the ones of this board or not.

[ribcage]

Re: Was there a good Chhsi capacitor era, or are they all rubbish?

Recently I replaced three Chhsi 560uF 25V, WG(M), -40 +105 'C, 9846 (46th week of 1998) on an IBM PC 300PL Slot 1 motherboard. Visually they were fine but I replaced them because I've seen multiple pictures of them failed on someone else's PCs, however in all those pictures they were dated 9936 instead. It didn't solve any problems for me, so they were not bad caps. I haven't tested them in any way after removing them, though. If your mobo works fine, I would refrain for now.