t0m - then take the stuff on outside for good lighting and take some pics to share here with us with a short story perhaps
And yea, there are worser examples of blow-out caps that the above PSU, but hey, nice CapXon caps, nope? (recently I saw a guy that moded his X-Fi and installed a BIG CapXon cap on it and I was like - oh, my... installing a known bad cap, now that is a wise mod
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northbridge had no heatsink and was literally bubbly, surrounded by black charred plastic and melted almost completely out of the motherboard
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OMG. This is nuts. That can't work stable, can it? And I would kill to see that in action
Besides, I would like to get the spare NB heatsink, if it was any good one
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it was so hot my thumb print melted into it, and it felt like it was foaming (or boiling) under my thumb
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Oh, I hope you did not hurt yourself. Take case, bad caps can do "wonderfull" things.
SKYMTL - yea. Be carefull around them. They knock my DFI LP B mobo dead. Antec NEO 480W PSU, the first one (and expensive I might add) with custom cables... Yet recapped with Samxon caps, the Antex NEO PSU run like a drem for me now.
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if you can catch the smoke and get it back in there, it will work just fine again
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I have my doubts about that
Eldonko - you mad overclocker
100°C only? Hell, that is poor. My heatsink (mind you, heatsink, not what was under it) on my Epox 8RDA+ was at about 140°C (!) and it still worked. Bulging GSC crap caps are clearly visible on the input rails:
Galerie 
Galerie
The components quality must suxx todays then. Sadly, this is likely not fixable. What are the brand name/or picture of the caps used there? I do wonder what is used there...