Capacitor Replacement

NoEcho

NoEcho

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Capacitors are the planned point of failure for a lot of electronics. They're cheap to produce, can be designed to fail almost to a day (past warranty), the symptoms of their failure are so scattered that it is difficult to diagnose and address. It's pretty clear your capacitors have a problem when they start bulging or leaking.

I don't like being ripped off.

I'm thinking about getting ubergeeky and just soddering in some new capacitors on my older graphics cards and motherboards. Problem has always been finding the replacement capacitors. Then I found...Ceramic Capacitors. Wondering if these things can replace the standard issue, POS capacitors that might have shipped with Epox motherboards, Saphire graphic cards, etc.
 
My friend's MB died, and he noticed that the caps were really bulging, so he just ordered a similar dead MB off of ebay, and took the caps from that one. Still works fine.

To me though, it just gives me an excuse to buy another MB. and if I'm going to buy a new MB, I have to get a new CPU too, right? and more memory... and a new video card...
 
if u do change your capacitors, try using solid state capacitors
 
freakyhair said:
To me though, it just gives me an excuse to buy another MB. and if I'm going to buy a new MB, I have to get a new CPU too, right? and more memory... and a new video card...
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Thats exactly what THEY want. ;)
 
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