console5 vs DigiKey for buying capacitors?

Help Needed

Acquired a revision 1.6 Xbox and I'm planning to replace the clock cap and the five 3300uF caps near the CPU since I've been told those are the most important caps to target for my revision.

I did plenty of reading online and I've seen people say console5 is the best place to get replacement caps, but I've also seen some people recommending buying specific caps from DigiKey instead (specifically UHW0J332MPD for the five CPU caps).

Buying from DigiKey would cost about twice more than the console5 kits, at least where I live, so I'm just wondering if it's worth the extra cost or if I'm getting more or less the same quality caps from console5 too? I'm not sure if there's much difference, but I just wanna be absolutely sure that I'm getting caps that I don't have to worry about them randomly crapping out or something. Is it worth paying that much extra?

Posted Jun 8, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC

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