RJARRRPCGP
The Rocking PC Wiz
Lately, I have been reading posts about faulty capacitors on motherboards and thus I started checking the capacitors on all of my motherboards.
Motherboard capacitors
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GogoTheMimic
Pimpin' Red Mage
I have a row of capicitors right next to my heatsink and it's a pain to remove the heatsink for cleaning without bending my capacitors out a little. :/ That's the only complaint I could possibly have with my mobo.
smcd
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I had a gigabyte board blow a capacitor (or several, couldn't tell just how many) about 8 months ago... smoke, smell, sound = not a good thing from a PC. Got a new motherboard from them & my heatsink wouldn't fit due to poor design, having capacitors sticking up all around the socket. (I use my AMD 2000 heatsink on my new AMD 2500 due to this, still stays cool though).