The BADCAPS.NET site was created to counter the bad capacitor problem that has been plaguing computer motherboards since about 1999 to the present day. It now being 2007, I am STILL seeing later model boards with this problem. The tale behind why the capacitor problem exists in the first place is because of a large-scale industrial espionage foul-up. Some component manufacturers decided to steal an electrolyte formula from another competitor. Little beknown to them, the stolen formula was incomplete and flawed. They didn't discover this until it was too late and they had manufactured and distributed literally MILLIONS of these flawed capacitors. However, it's been going on way too long simply to blame on an industrial espionage boo-boo in my humble opinion, as this problem is still extremely common, and hasn't slowed down. Personally, I think it all boils down to shoddy components that are manufactured by shoddy component makers.
Over the years, there have been massive quantities of name-brand, high quality motherboards failing prematurely due to these faulty electrolytic capacitors used in their manufacturing process. This has doomed MANY popular and expensive brands of motherboards, including: Abit, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Supermicro, DFI, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, and MANY more! The objective here isn't to smear the names of these manufacturers, as AT THE TIME they had no clue they were purchasing shoddy components until after the damage was already done... Sadly, some manufacturers continue to use these shoddy capacitors even after this issue became public.
Most all the information about this problem is scattered in bloated forums, newsgroups, and unreliable (here today, gone tomorrow) websites. That in itself is enough to make you throw your board in the trash! I've gathered a lot of information, along with my own knowledge and experience, and created a central location to post it. Hopefully this will bring your search to an end!!
As ste_bla mentions Gigabyte (and possibly a couple of others now) use solid caps so it shouldn't even matter much any more. 
Opened up a few PCs and sure enough the majority suffered from Bad caps and all the machines over the years were giving issues like freezing and needing reloading every few months, we chalked it up to the Software demands going up and the boards not being fully compatiable with XP (not designed for it really) but the replacements were troublefree for a yr or so, however the sent us cheapo S370 boards with NO namebrand and they started to fail as well, just due to being built cheaply somewhere in china and not due to caps, very thin and very very cheaply made. Luckily we don't have many dinosaurs remaining and most of the machines are Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8 at least and now many C2D 1.66Ghz rigs as well.
