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What capacitor should I get?

Ivan M.
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Hello, 

 

I recently got a broken asRock Z170 Gaming-itx/ac motherboard that had a bunch of pins from the CPU socket broken or were bent. So I decided to replace the CPU socket to fix the motherboard, but when I took off the socket, the capacitor at the very top left corner of the capacitor was taken off during the process. Despite looking for it for a while I just couldn't find it, so I began to wonder where I could one of those capacitors and which one to buy so that I could fix the motherboard? 

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Digikey, Mouser, or even Aliexpress probably have any electronics part you could want, but you'd need to know the value of the capacitor.

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How do measure the capacitance, voltage and everything else? 

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Measure if the pads of the broken cap are in parallel to the caps next to it, which is likely. If it is then it'll work fine without the capacitor.

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What do you mean if it is parallel to the cap next to it and how do I measure it?

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