[otherjason]

I observed this behavior in a Dell system about a decade ago, but based on experience over the last 5 years or so with PowerEdge servers, installing a third-party GPU no longer triggers the (extremely loud) maximum fan-speed response.

[BizarroLand]

Even if that's the case the damage is done.

I still tell people about capacitor plaque and how we should have class actioned Dell out of existence over it

[ornornor]

Why Dell specifically? Wasn’t all hardware that bought the cheaper capacitors affected?

[BizarroLand]

Because they were the most well known of the affected companies and they didn't really do much to repair the goodwill the issue cost them.

Sure, they "put up $300 million for repairs" according to https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/29/dell..., but I bet the lions share of that went to their largest purchasers, so the people who blew their school's IT budget on Dell computers were just SOL.