Can Bad Caps Lead To Gpu/Cpu Damage?

[bulkchart32]

the 3 main caps behind the heatsinks, can they cause damage? i recently saw 3 of those caps have around 8,000uf(they're suppose to be 3300uf) and i'm wondering if that can damage a processor? it's making me wonder if i should recap some xbox's just to prevent damage.

[SS_Dave]

I don't think it would damage the CPU/GPU as the cap's are not controlling any timing circuits, Damage to the CPU/GPU would come from overclocking  long before having a excess power filtering which is what the caps are there for.

 

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SS Dave

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[bulkchart32]

10 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

I don't think it would damage the CPU/GPU as the cap's are not controlling any timing circuits, Damage to the CPU/GPU would come from overclocking  long before having a excess power filtering which is what the caps are there for.

 

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

 

could they be causing any issues(like slowdowns) if the capacitance is either high or low?

[SS_Dave]

One comment I did read is a  high capacitance reading would probably have a high ESR reading as well and if that's the case the cap is not filtering the DC .

If that's the case the  CPU/GPU will have power fluctuations that could cause intermittent performance problems .

 

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.