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So I was fooling around with an old BFG 6600GT agp, and I broke off an odd little box thing. I'd do the research and find out what it was, but it seems moot. Out of curiosity, I popped it into a computer and it worked perfectly. as I type it is completing a 48 hour stability test with a program that I cannot quite remember the name of, and no errors. Anyone want to take a guess what this apparently unimportant box is? it was located beside one of the clips for the cooler on the underside of the card :p
 
Question, in this image... where is it.

6200_backside.jpg
 
Probably a cap. I wouldn't worry about it, especially since you say the card still seems to run like normal.
 
I don't know what it is, but I broke one off of an old Radeon 7000 AGP card it has worked just fine for the last 6 months or so.....

At least it looks like the same thing:)
 
It looks like you may have lopped off a crystal resistor. most of the time if you just lob one off it will probably create less efficiency in the card. Although, theres also a possibility it could cause a short. Seems like you got lucky and it wasn't a crucial circuit that you may have disrupted. It will probably degrade over time and eventually break but i dont think the card will last that long. ;)
 
just fyi, "lop" not "lob". To lob something is to throw or toss an object in a sort of circular path. To lop is to cut or chop a piece off something.
 
Thanks mate. I guess i get that for living around a bunch of people who say their phrases wrong all the time. I guess it kinda just rubs off. Haha, pretty ironic since i give them crap about saying things like that wrong all the time. Lets keep this quiet. ;)

just fyi, "lop" not "lob". To lob something is to throw or toss an object in a sort of circular path. To lop is to cut or chop a piece off something.

Also, i thought a lob, was well a lob. Kinda like in football. Kind of a high hanging throw into the air.
 
Yeah, it wont last too long, I'm slowly overclocking until it dies, taking incremental benchmarks. lol artifacts
 
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