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Old August 6, 2011, 11:55 PM
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I picked up a pile of parts from a friend, and one of them is a 7600GT with blown caps. I'll probably fix it if only for the practice, but I'm curious, what would cause the caps to blow on a graphics card? Power problems?
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Old August 7, 2011, 12:11 AM
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Age most likely.
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Old August 7, 2011, 06:08 AM
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Actually it's probably NOT age.

The 7600 is the right age to have counterfeit caps in it :

Capacitor plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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that and or dude maxed it out mhz wise 24/7.

do make a page with the project,be cool to see ya in action.

love it when old hw is resurrected hehe
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could also be that PSU failed. I have seen that when an Antec SP450 died took with it the whole system and blown the caps on a 7300GT, that silent model from Asus. the whole config was like 5 years old.
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Old August 7, 2011, 10:06 AM
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Actually it's probably NOT age.

The 7600 is the right age to have counterfeit caps in it :

Capacitor plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The more you know. I thought that happened due to age, had never heard of that.
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It was a huge thing back in the day, with motherboards dying, etc.

Let me know what value capacitors you need FlyingFish and I may be able to supply them.....
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