Bloated ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, part out or recap?

[Wasmachineman_NL]

Title. I bought the board (well entire system) cheap knowing it had bad caps, it boots fine and is stable but i'm thinking of parting the machine out and selling the board as broken.

Or should I consider recapping it, even though I have zero knowledge about it? I had a Samsung monitor recapped way, way back though.

[Mr.Scott]

Working, it is a 50 dollar board these days. IMO, not worth the time, materials, or effort to re-cap it.....unless you're going to keep it for yourself.
Even after all that, it's still a 50 dollar board.

[Wasmachineman_NL]

[Marcin]

I would part it out as you say but with all those technical details. Here in Poland a board tested in working condition but with blowed caps should get min. 50% of perfect one. Replacing caps for an appointed person is easy and cheap solution

[cvandijk]

And it's a nice solder practice if you are going to restore more expensive boards.

[D.8080]

Do a cap job.
A mobo is always worth having to test things or play around.

Think about it in a month. Ideas change, when not.

[Wasmachineman_NL]

[CPUShack]

Grab a crappy motherboard or whatever and practice
Then if ya mess up you hurt nothing

[D.8080]

[Wasmachineman_NL]

And then the board shit itself completely, it now gets stuck at the POST screen.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Now if only I could find that illusive P4P800S-X..

EDIT: Interesting, it appears to be my DVD drive causing it to hang at POST, I disconnected it and the board seems to work fine now.

[Wasmachineman_NL]

Something else that surprises me is that there's a massive lack of overclocking options in the BIOS.

Still pondering whether I should just get it recapped or not.. Oh, and I used it again today to do some data scavenging, the board worked fine.