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SMD Capacitors missing from Graphics Card

AshleyKitty123

Hello everyone! A week ago i got this GeForce 9600 GT from a booth fair for a very low price. Took it home, cleaned it and after i tested it, btw it works perfectly fine, i noticed there are these 3 little SMD caps missing on the back. They seem to be close to the Vram chips, and i was wondering if this would affect the Card in any way (I do understand that a missing component is gonna affect something, but it seems to work without a problem for now).

 

PS: I do have some spare SMD caps i "salvaged" off a dead Core 2 Duo CPU i got rid of, they are the same size, just a slightly different color, if those would work to replace the missing ones.

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Just because they look the same doesn't mean they are the same. If they are different and you install them there is a risk of malfunctioning an posably destroying the card. Probably not, but still not a good idea.

 

If it works fine now then I wouldn't try doing anything. As they say if it ain't broke don't fix it.

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@campy i think it is obvious which one is intentionally left empty and the one that chipped away.

 

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