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).