hello, sorry if this is the wrong place, but i'm not sure where else to put it. bit of a noob in this area and therefore things seem a little confusing..
anyways,
i have a reasonably old board for which the caps, pushed up against the HS, have gone. it is for a via C3, and runs with no fan so i suppose the caps got reasonably hot. i got the board a while ago for only around £5 (~$10).. so i don't really want to spend that much on replacement capacitors (i need 5), which could still not fix it. i'm not too fussy on the brand as i can now locate them slightly further away from the HS, so they wouldn't have to undergo as much heat.
does anyone have any spare caps like these in the UK, who could send them to me at a small cost?
..also i was thinking, it would probably be just as cheap to buy a very old, or broken motherboard on ebay, provided it had the capacitors i needed, and harvest them from there; does anyone know what boards would have these capacitors?
also, i'm not sure about the capacitance.. i've read that u can use caps with different capacitances- would it just have to be more, or what?.
thanks.
anyways,
i have a reasonably old board for which the caps, pushed up against the HS, have gone. it is for a via C3, and runs with no fan so i suppose the caps got reasonably hot. i got the board a while ago for only around £5 (~$10).. so i don't really want to spend that much on replacement capacitors (i need 5), which could still not fix it. i'm not too fussy on the brand as i can now locate them slightly further away from the HS, so they wouldn't have to undergo as much heat.
does anyone have any spare caps like these in the UK, who could send them to me at a small cost?
..also i was thinking, it would probably be just as cheap to buy a very old, or broken motherboard on ebay, provided it had the capacitors i needed, and harvest them from there; does anyone know what boards would have these capacitors?
also, i'm not sure about the capacitance.. i've read that u can use caps with different capacitances- would it just have to be more, or what?.
thanks.
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