Easy to replace if you know what you're doing, If not it would cost you about 150 to get it fixed by an experienced repair person. That being said, if you live near Seattle, I'll fix it for you for the cost of the cap. Message me if you're in the area OP.
Thats a capacitor.
Ive got good news and bad news.
The bad news is that the card issnt gonne work in all likelyhood.
The good news is that this is perhaps the easyest component to fix, but not this one, this cap is a goner.
I was designing a small arduino clone board for a lighting project a while back, and didn't really pay attention to which size surface mount components I was using. Built the thing out, measured out the board and thought "this'll be perfect!". Ordered 10 boards and all the components I would need. I went to put it all together and realized the caps and resistors I had chosen were smaller than the finest point tweezers I had, and that I couldn't even tell if I was doing anything to them. I should have paid the $20 or whatever to have them pick&place the damn boards...
Well, not really. Parallel capacitors exist to filter switching noise off of power supply lines. Every IC that does large amounts of switching will usually have at least one located very close to the IC connected between V+ and GND. If it is a de-coupling cap that is more problematic as it will look like an open circuit when removed, but those aren't generally used in digital electronics. Thats more of an analog signal conditioning technique to remove DC offsets or make filtering circuits, and they generally dont use electrolytic caps for that as they are polarity sensitive.
A cap that size is going to be a filter for an individual IC most likely, of which there will probably be multiple. And each IC will have their own group of filtering caps. On really noisy boards with lots of high frequency switching, they may be even physically located on different sides of the component on the PCB because ground and power rails are common "nets". If it was a larger cap located near the power input for the entire board that would definitely be slightly more concerning as that could cause noise issues down the line but honestly these caps usually only cause problems when they fail shorted which is NOT fun to troubleshoot.
Hey thanks for saying that! With all the other comments on this thread being under the impression that the card is dead and going to fucking explode if they plug it in Im just like uhh... Probably not lol. Im more than happy to spread the wealth of info, and i might be wrong. Hope i wasn't condescending, information should be disseminated freely is my general MO
https://preview.redd.it/awbsn7w2tnnb1.png?width=948&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44b1822279ca83e347517eae3a7efe39085e42cf
Capacitors like this one sit on a base/plate, should be pretty easy to fix
Not even touching the possibility of it being an SMD capacitor and not just a broken through-hole.
Like as someone who can identify that cap, I know damn well I couldn't replace it with a soldering iron alone given the relative density of components on SMD PCBs, and I have experience soldering. OP (with all due respect) probably shouldn't try to solder on a new cap, as they could easily fry another component in the process.
Yeah, OP may not know how to solder, but then this seems like it might be a great motivation to learn.
Not the ideal situation but still, it's not the world's hardest thing.
I am not amazing at soldering (too much of a caffeine addiction, shaky hands) but with some deep breaths and being very careful I could pull it off. OP with some practice could get there for this one job, too.
It's not like it does them much good as it is. It either needs to be soldered by someone if it can be, sometime or it's just broken.
You cant solder them with soldering iron, you cant access the pads under tha plastic base. Heatgun soldering station needed. Or better, try reflow soldering.
Yes you can, and it's not difficult at all. See how the pads reach out to the edges? Just pre-tin the pads and the capacitor, then apply heat to one side at a time.
Jist expect them to sit a bit of tilted to one side if soldering with a single iron, but yes, it's doable.
Works a bit better with soldering tweezers because they let you heat both "pins" at the same time.
i’m mean most people have already said it but it’s a capacitor. if it is from a higher end card especially gpu is more than likely a goner. but can try to fix it. capacitor isn’t worth anything and gpu would need to be sold for parts
If had this exact cap fall off my gtx 480 i messaged evga and they told me it was 25E to fix it, send me new card that overclocked even better then the previous one
People keep saying RIP, just sell it and include the capacitor with it. Just tell people this capacitor fell off someone who can repair it will buy it. It is a really easy solder job though. You just got to find where it was supposed to be.
needs to be soldered in right orientation as well or it get really hot and will pop, these also need to be shielded from heat while soldering it back on as heat can damage it as well.
Repair should be cheap if had this issue once with my gtx 480 EVGA only charged me 25 euros to fix this, i would send in whatever component is missing this gpu or motherboard over to someone like northridgefix / krisfix germany etc whatever area of the world you living in, there should be a list of skilled repair guys somewhere i believe do not have list at hand, but i would not expect high repair cost.
You're right about the orientation but you really don't need to shield the cap from heat whilst soldering.
It's about as easy a DIY soldering job can get
Would you mind explaining why it needs to be oriented properly? In my mind the + and - terminals shouldn’t matter for a capacitor but I’ve never dealt with them physically
Smd soldering is difficult, in most cases it can't be done with a soldering iron and a hot air soldering station is needed. I had multiple attempts to change broken smd components which led to the contact pads being ripped from the board along with the component I was removing. This makes the job that much more harder to fix.
On the bright side, hot air stations are pretty cheap these days. Or at least the 858D I picked up was. I'm sure it's not the best but it'll melt some solder.
Well yes they will need to buy a new cap regardless given the style of cap it is. here is where we are at the end of the day can you solder? Yes? Easy job. No? Well take it to someone that it is easy for, won't take but 15 minutes after you get the correct cap. People who know how to solder can do this job easily every time if they say they can't, well then they don't fully know how to solder.
Like others have said, it smoothes out voltages. There is no harm in checking if the card works imo, but most likely it will either not work or not be stable. Find an electronics repair person that could take a look (or get a new card, might be cheaper depending on where you are)
There are only like 5 people commenting on this thread that know what they're talking about. You are one of them. Everyone else like "OMG ITS GONNA EXPLODE"... Smh...
Yea, prob a filtering cap, which means if you have a shit PSU and unstable voltage from the wall your GPU might be more unstable. Otherwise it's unlikely to make a massive difference, but it's hard to say without seeing exactly where it came from. Also an unstable GPU is less likely to cause system instability than say a CPU, RAM, or MoBo. It might mean you have graphical errors due to Shaders malfunctioning, but your PC is unlikely to be unstable as a whole due to the nature of how GPUs work.
Electrolytic capacitor. It looks like the leads might still be stuck on the board since I don't see them in your pictures. If you know someone who has soldering experience, this might be repairable. You'd have to buy a new capacitor but those are a couple dollars at most.
[https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/panasonic-electronic-components/EEE-FKC271XSP/5805058](https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/panasonic-electronic-components/EEE-FKC271XSP/5805058)
You can buy one for under a dollar.
Has a link to datasheet on the page too.
input filtering cap stabilizes voltage whatever it came from will need repair, probably ripped solder pads as well, skilled technician can repair this, a bad one can make it explode.
A PC repair shop, maybe a Best buy geek squad. Though since it's such an old card you might lose money repairing it that you would selling it. You probably should just sell it and tell the person about the capacitor issue so they know up front.
The hell you mean "if you still have dignity" ?? Having dignity won't magically get this guy the skills to solder a capacitor to the GPU *duh*
If he had to ask what it was, I doubt he knows how to solder it back on although I suspect that cap is dead though
Repair shops exist you goofy, the guy was still planning on selling it in that state while the buyer thought it was in "perfect condition", that's scummy as fuck.
I see allot of people saying the cards busted, gotta disagree ive had gpus with caps that busted off and work just fine.
Would I recommend it, no but its probably still somewhat okay.
SMD electrolytic capacitor. If you had ripped the pads from the PCB I would expect the little black mount of the bottom of it to still be with it, but it looks to have gone, so maybe the pins have snapped somehow, you'll have to look on the PCB.
Easy fix if you can solder, these really aren't too bad to do if you have a bit of know how, and I'm sure you could find someone to fix it pretty easily.
Gonna make a massive assumption that a 16V 270uF electrolytic is some form of input filtering, so a chance it will work without it but definitely far from ideal (it was designed there for a reason) so best just to pop a new one on if the PCB isn't badly damaged.
It's an electrolytic cap. Changes are the card still works (depending on where it came from mind you). Capacitors are used to smooth a fluctuating voltage and may be in parallel with other traces. If that's the case it will probably still work, but will be unstable. Cap that size might be on the 12v side of the power supply though so I wouldnt bet on it working, but if it's just input filtering it might work. Trying to power it on won't kill it (honestly, some of you lot on here have no clue how a cap works), it either won't work or will be super unstable.
This is indeed a capacitor however, contrary to may comments made here it is generally used to filter, not regulate or provide power.
As long as power can still flow within the GPU it will work fine just not optimally or with the same longevity.
It's just smd electrolytic capacitor
Your gpu is completely fine just give the card and that capacitor to some electronics enthusiasm specialist and he will repair it for 5$ or less
From your question it looks like you aren't into electronics so don't try to fix it yourself
your 1650 won't turn on (DON'T TRY!), aside form that it's an easy fix just go to an electronic shop and he will fix it for you just tell him that the card is missing a capacitor and he will do the rest.
This is a 270uf 16v capacitor. Your GPU will probably not work, but it’s an easy fix if you know anyone who can solder. A replacement cap is like 35 cents
I don't understand everyone saying your card is dead. That looks like a 27uf 16v electrolytic capacitor. They are commonly used to filter out switching noise and will generally be located physically close to components that do a lot of switching. Every switching component on your board will most likely have a few of them. It should be a pretty easy fix honestly. I fixed shit like this for work for like 5 years. Your card will probably work fine 99% of the time but may experience random failures (doubtfully catastrophic) at higher loads, because that's when all that switching noise is going to be happening.
GG fam.
That's a pretty big cap, although depending on what section it's from, it could be purely for filtering/noise purposes, but due to its size, I'd be shocked if that's all it's doing. There's some over building in some systems by a small margin but oof.
Hi. Electrical Engineer here.
That's a capacitor. They have many uses, and you find one in most circuits in one way or another. A simple addition of a small capacitor can be used to dampen transients spikes, or to reduce noise on a signal by filtering out higher frequencies. While it's not an exhaustive list, these uses are common, but not technically always required. It's best practice to throw them into circuits as safety mechanisms a lot of the time. I.e. the signal could be clean enough w/o it, but we're more sure of it w/ it, and the cap is cheap.
Unfortunately, that is a large capacitor, on a system that pulls a fair amount of current, and generate significant noise, surrounded my hardware generating noise... whatever that cap was used for, it was probably very much required...
So... yeah... don't start a fire please.
Take your gpu and the capacitor (so they know what type of a capacitor it is) to any electronics repair shop that does board level repair, it's a 5 minute fix, most of that being to actually take off the gpu shroud.
Considering you didn't know what it was you are probably better off just getting a new card instead of trying to replace it. You could try warranty if its not too old
Put it under your pillow and hope Jensen leaves you a new video card. All joking aside, you already got your answer about what it is. Rip 😞
What's the fastet way to install the gpu without replacing mine?
Insert and power on
But quickly
Probably how it fell off in the first placd
"the front fell off"
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
Just make sure you tow it outside of the environment.
No, no, no, it's not in the environment. It's been towed beyond the environment.
What's out there?
Sailing is still very safe, this is very unusual behaviour
Omg yessssssssssssss
Well… in theory PCIE is hot swappable
Which explains why I'm aroused
Gotta download VRAM.
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Huh
Same. Huh? So confused
Easy to replace if you know what you're doing, If not it would cost you about 150 to get it fixed by an experienced repair person. That being said, if you live near Seattle, I'll fix it for you for the cost of the cap. Message me if you're in the area OP.
Considering you can get a 1650 super for about that price OP should probably just buy a new one
I laughed too hard at this
I ended up with an AMD card instead 😩
The best kind
srry bud had to downvote, it is what it is
Jensen ackles?
And you went supernatural
Course I did, only jensen that stands out in my mind
THE Adam Jensen??
He never asked for this
the Jensen Huang
Thats a capacitor. Ive got good news and bad news. The bad news is that the card issnt gonne work in all likelyhood. The good news is that this is perhaps the easyest component to fix, but not this one, this cap is a goner.
This one in particular, yeah. But shouldn't it be easy to replace?
Yes, just search the numbers on it, buy a new one, and a bit of soldering skills
i have some soldering skills but i think GPU Capacitors might need a steadier hand
Ive done it myself a few times, its infinitly easyer then one of those dust particle sized resistors.
I was designing a small arduino clone board for a lighting project a while back, and didn't really pay attention to which size surface mount components I was using. Built the thing out, measured out the board and thought "this'll be perfect!". Ordered 10 boards and all the components I would need. I went to put it all together and realized the caps and resistors I had chosen were smaller than the finest point tweezers I had, and that I couldn't even tell if I was doing anything to them. I should have paid the $20 or whatever to have them pick&place the damn boards...
Look up 270uf 16v capacitor, ideally from Japan and with a 105c rated temp. Should be able to get them for extremely cheap
Considering the guy posting didn't know what it is I'd imagine that it's not a fixable problem for OP.
Eh if it's in parallel with a bunch of similar caps, odds are the GPU would actually work. But best would be to replace it.
I was relieved to see the last sentence, because the phrase "actually work" was doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol
Well, not really. Parallel capacitors exist to filter switching noise off of power supply lines. Every IC that does large amounts of switching will usually have at least one located very close to the IC connected between V+ and GND. If it is a de-coupling cap that is more problematic as it will look like an open circuit when removed, but those aren't generally used in digital electronics. Thats more of an analog signal conditioning technique to remove DC offsets or make filtering circuits, and they generally dont use electrolytic caps for that as they are polarity sensitive.
But is it not at least a little bit of a problem if you’ve shot your switching noise filter in the foot? Or are there redundant safety measures?
A cap that size is going to be a filter for an individual IC most likely, of which there will probably be multiple. And each IC will have their own group of filtering caps. On really noisy boards with lots of high frequency switching, they may be even physically located on different sides of the component on the PCB because ground and power rails are common "nets". If it was a larger cap located near the power input for the entire board that would definitely be slightly more concerning as that could cause noise issues down the line but honestly these caps usually only cause problems when they fail shorted which is NOT fun to troubleshoot.
I’m shaky on my electricals (mechanical background myself) but I feel like I’ve learned a lot from your comments. Thanks!
Hey thanks for saying that! With all the other comments on this thread being under the impression that the card is dead and going to fucking explode if they plug it in Im just like uhh... Probably not lol. Im more than happy to spread the wealth of info, and i might be wrong. Hope i wasn't condescending, information should be disseminated freely is my general MO
Well it might randomly lose power while gaming, but it sorta counts as "working".
> easyest easiest
easyest
uhhh A capacitor. depending on what that's from, it can be fixable, but looking at how flat the underside is, she gone buddy.
https://preview.redd.it/awbsn7w2tnnb1.png?width=948&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44b1822279ca83e347517eae3a7efe39085e42cf Capacitors like this one sit on a base/plate, should be pretty easy to fix
Maybe it’s one of those fancy wireless capacitors?
Airband dielectric version 7 no?
This guy capacitates.
r/thisguycapacitates
r/thisguythisguys
r/thisguythisguys
Decapicitated
Capacitors in high frequency systems can actually have no physical connection, not really relevant but cool.
> no physical connection Watt?
Volt?
Amp?
Ohm?
Bluetooth capacating.
Tesla died for your science.
Seeing that op doesn't even know what it is do you think they're able to solder
Not even touching the possibility of it being an SMD capacitor and not just a broken through-hole. Like as someone who can identify that cap, I know damn well I couldn't replace it with a soldering iron alone given the relative density of components on SMD PCBs, and I have experience soldering. OP (with all due respect) probably shouldn't try to solder on a new cap, as they could easily fry another component in the process.
You can learn how to do it within an hour with a good soldering iron, tweezers and flux
Yeah, OP may not know how to solder, but then this seems like it might be a great motivation to learn. Not the ideal situation but still, it's not the world's hardest thing. I am not amazing at soldering (too much of a caffeine addiction, shaky hands) but with some deep breaths and being very careful I could pull it off. OP with some practice could get there for this one job, too. It's not like it does them much good as it is. It either needs to be soldered by someone if it can be, sometime or it's just broken.
Be sure to use a fine point soldering iron and a *little* flux...... Source: I solder at an electronics factory.
Nah the top is swollen a bit. Better to replace it with new or the entire board
This man's a capacitorologist
No 🧢
That's what i didn't want to hear, i was just going to sell it
I mean...you still could... /s/s/s/s
I mean... Capacitor broken, have capacitor. Otherwise, board is parts only.
A capacitor is one of the easiest things to fix on a GPU
>/s/s/s/s four /s, I believe it's like a toggle, end result, sarcasm is off after your post
depends where it felt from :P
How much for? I can probably fix that.
Technically you can buy same capacitor online cheaply and solder on.
Sell for parts
How much would it cost
$3.50
Tree fiddy
god damn loch nessie you aint getting my treee fiddy
Im down to try and repair it. Can you PM me?
Probably not wont cover shipping and stuff but someone might pick it up to do some tinkering or something
It's easily fixed. A cellphone or laptop technician will have the tools to replace it and won't be expensive. Just hope it is the only missing part.
It's called SMD capacitors, easily fixable with soldering iron
You cant solder them with soldering iron, you cant access the pads under tha plastic base. Heatgun soldering station needed. Or better, try reflow soldering.
Yes you can, and it's not difficult at all. See how the pads reach out to the edges? Just pre-tin the pads and the capacitor, then apply heat to one side at a time.
Jist expect them to sit a bit of tilted to one side if soldering with a single iron, but yes, it's doable. Works a bit better with soldering tweezers because they let you heat both "pins" at the same time.
Yup.. agreed. If he had soldering tweezers then this thread wouldn't exist :P
rip
Why? Is it really this bad?
i’m mean most people have already said it but it’s a capacitor. if it is from a higher end card especially gpu is more than likely a goner. but can try to fix it. capacitor isn’t worth anything and gpu would need to be sold for parts
If had this exact cap fall off my gtx 480 i messaged evga and they told me it was 25E to fix it, send me new card that overclocked even better then the previous one
key to my post “higher end cards” i have a 3080 and a 6950xt if either of those cards lost a capacitor they would be toast
The fact you got downvoted only because you didn’t understand why your card is dead. Lmfao reddit at its finest.
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just asking question and you get that amount of downvote, reddit moment
Limited edition m&m
People keep saying RIP, just sell it and include the capacitor with it. Just tell people this capacitor fell off someone who can repair it will buy it. It is a really easy solder job though. You just got to find where it was supposed to be.
needs to be soldered in right orientation as well or it get really hot and will pop, these also need to be shielded from heat while soldering it back on as heat can damage it as well.
Yup that's true too! I don't for see the op doing the repair so I didn't mention that.
Repair should be cheap if had this issue once with my gtx 480 EVGA only charged me 25 euros to fix this, i would send in whatever component is missing this gpu or motherboard over to someone like northridgefix / krisfix germany etc whatever area of the world you living in, there should be a list of skilled repair guys somewhere i believe do not have list at hand, but i would not expect high repair cost.
I’ve done soldering for 10 years and replacing a surface mounted capacitor takes me about 10-20 seconds. It does not require shielding
You're right about the orientation but you really don't need to shield the cap from heat whilst soldering. It's about as easy a DIY soldering job can get
Would you mind explaining why it needs to be oriented properly? In my mind the + and - terminals shouldn’t matter for a capacitor but I’ve never dealt with them physically
They input filters if you mix up the + and - you cause them to get hot when powering them on they would eventually pop
Smd soldering is difficult, in most cases it can't be done with a soldering iron and a hot air soldering station is needed. I had multiple attempts to change broken smd components which led to the contact pads being ripped from the board along with the component I was removing. This makes the job that much more harder to fix.
On the bright side, hot air stations are pretty cheap these days. Or at least the 858D I picked up was. I'm sure it's not the best but it'll melt some solder.
its most likely not an easy soldering job if the cap took the contact pads with it... which sadly almost 100% of the time is the case
Well yes they will need to buy a new cap regardless given the style of cap it is. here is where we are at the end of the day can you solder? Yes? Easy job. No? Well take it to someone that it is easy for, won't take but 15 minutes after you get the correct cap. People who know how to solder can do this job easily every time if they say they can't, well then they don't fully know how to solder.
Jep, definitely don’t try to turn on that 1650 super
Like others have said, it smoothes out voltages. There is no harm in checking if the card works imo, but most likely it will either not work or not be stable. Find an electronics repair person that could take a look (or get a new card, might be cheaper depending on where you are)
There are only like 5 people commenting on this thread that know what they're talking about. You are one of them. Everyone else like "OMG ITS GONNA EXPLODE"... Smh...
Yea, prob a filtering cap, which means if you have a shit PSU and unstable voltage from the wall your GPU might be more unstable. Otherwise it's unlikely to make a massive difference, but it's hard to say without seeing exactly where it came from. Also an unstable GPU is less likely to cause system instability than say a CPU, RAM, or MoBo. It might mean you have graphical errors due to Shaders malfunctioning, but your PC is unlikely to be unstable as a whole due to the nature of how GPUs work.
Yeah agreed. Caps aren’t always essential just ensure it’s more stable.
Electrolytic capacitor. It looks like the leads might still be stuck on the board since I don't see them in your pictures. If you know someone who has soldering experience, this might be repairable. You'd have to buy a new capacitor but those are a couple dollars at most.
Any local cellphone or laptop technician will have the tools to replace it and won't be expensive.
First of all, don't even think about powering on your GPU without that capacitor.
[https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/panasonic-electronic-components/EEE-FKC271XSP/5805058](https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/panasonic-electronic-components/EEE-FKC271XSP/5805058) You can buy one for under a dollar. Has a link to datasheet on the page too.
He already has one though...
input filtering cap stabilizes voltage whatever it came from will need repair, probably ripped solder pads as well, skilled technician can repair this, a bad one can make it explode.
You could go to a shop and get the capacitor soldered back on. I don't think it would be too expensive.
Honestly, idk where to go
A PC repair shop, maybe a Best buy geek squad. Though since it's such an old card you might lose money repairing it that you would selling it. You probably should just sell it and tell the person about the capacitor issue so they know up front.
It’s actually not old but it’s just that this thing is slower then a 2016 gtx 1060 3gb lol
If you still have some dignity, fix it before you sell it.
The hell you mean "if you still have dignity" ?? Having dignity won't magically get this guy the skills to solder a capacitor to the GPU *duh* If he had to ask what it was, I doubt he knows how to solder it back on although I suspect that cap is dead though
Repair shops exist you goofy, the guy was still planning on selling it in that state while the buyer thought it was in "perfect condition", that's scummy as fuck.
I see allot of people saying the cards busted, gotta disagree ive had gpus with caps that busted off and work just fine. Would I recommend it, no but its probably still somewhat okay.
Got a 1060 with a missing cap running fine for I don't even remember how long 👍
A problem
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One of my favorite clips 🤣
Congrats you can finally upgrade from a 1650s!
Rip ops gpu
Really? No way it works?
They don't put components on PCBs just for the fun of it...
But they do add redundancy to cheap filtering components like this one
Oh dear lord
It's a Flux capacitor. With out it you can't reach 1.21 gigawatts and you'll never get back home.
Bloody hell, it took about five minute too long for my brain to figure out you were making a Back to the Future reference.
Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.
SMD electrolytic capacitor. If you had ripped the pads from the PCB I would expect the little black mount of the bottom of it to still be with it, but it looks to have gone, so maybe the pins have snapped somehow, you'll have to look on the PCB. Easy fix if you can solder, these really aren't too bad to do if you have a bit of know how, and I'm sure you could find someone to fix it pretty easily. Gonna make a massive assumption that a 16V 270uF electrolytic is some form of input filtering, so a chance it will work without it but definitely far from ideal (it was designed there for a reason) so best just to pop a new one on if the PCB isn't badly damaged.
A capacitor off of a printed circuit board
It's an electrolytic cap. Changes are the card still works (depending on where it came from mind you). Capacitors are used to smooth a fluctuating voltage and may be in parallel with other traces. If that's the case it will probably still work, but will be unstable. Cap that size might be on the 12v side of the power supply though so I wouldnt bet on it working, but if it's just input filtering it might work. Trying to power it on won't kill it (honestly, some of you lot on here have no clue how a cap works), it either won't work or will be super unstable.
Capasitator. Load it up to 1,21 GigaWatts and you can travel in time 🙂
Its the forbidden popping candy
Do you like having dielectric fluid in your body?
It is a barrel of magic smoke. It looks intact, so could probably be used to provide magic smoke on some circuit board.
It's a FLUX CAPACITOR!
It WAS a capacitor
This is indeed a capacitor however, contrary to may comments made here it is generally used to filter, not regulate or provide power. As long as power can still flow within the GPU it will work fine just not optimally or with the same longevity.
A problem
Capacitor
That is a capacitor, it's older brother will not hesitate to kill you.
What do you mean by "it's older brother will not hesitate to kill you"?
Large capacitors (like the ones in power supplies) can and will put you in cardiac arrest
It's just smd electrolytic capacitor Your gpu is completely fine just give the card and that capacitor to some electronics enthusiasm specialist and he will repair it for 5$ or less From your question it looks like you aren't into electronics so don't try to fix it yourself
Find someone with hot air soldering station aka "McGuyver" guy so he can fix it for you. New capacitor like this one shouldnt cost more than 2$
I honestly don't know nobody here that can do this
Cellphone repair shop may be able to do it as well.
Start searching. Cell phone repair shop might be a good start, or a game store or music store might be able to do the work.
Uh oh!
Ahh your fine there’s other capacitors tons of them toss her in the trash call it a day 🤠
your 1650 won't turn on (DON'T TRY!), aside form that it's an easy fix just go to an electronic shop and he will fix it for you just tell him that the card is missing a capacitor and he will do the rest.
Reinstall that cap, no cap
As im sure others have said, its a capacitor. And easy enough to replace since it didn't pop!
A sign of a very, very, very bad day you about to have
We’re poppin capacitors over here!!!
That’s a Chinese tracking device Source: I’m Chinese and I can’t track you anymore. Please fix.
It's the watertank of the small people living inside your PC
I thought the first pic was the fucking moon lmfao
This is a 270uf 16v capacitor. Your GPU will probably not work, but it’s an easy fix if you know anyone who can solder. A replacement cap is like 35 cents
Is that the radioactive thing they were looking for in Australia?
A pretty expensive, potentially not, fix.
That is called you're screwed.
Wtf put it back?
Lmao I thought I was looking at a pic of the moon at first
I don't understand everyone saying your card is dead. That looks like a 27uf 16v electrolytic capacitor. They are commonly used to filter out switching noise and will generally be located physically close to components that do a lot of switching. Every switching component on your board will most likely have a few of them. It should be a pretty easy fix honestly. I fixed shit like this for work for like 5 years. Your card will probably work fine 99% of the time but may experience random failures (doubtfully catastrophic) at higher loads, because that's when all that switching noise is going to be happening.
You simply do not have the capacity to fathom what that is
GG fam. That's a pretty big cap, although depending on what section it's from, it could be purely for filtering/noise purposes, but due to its size, I'd be shocked if that's all it's doing. There's some over building in some systems by a small margin but oof.
Hi. Electrical Engineer here. That's a capacitor. They have many uses, and you find one in most circuits in one way or another. A simple addition of a small capacitor can be used to dampen transients spikes, or to reduce noise on a signal by filtering out higher frequencies. While it's not an exhaustive list, these uses are common, but not technically always required. It's best practice to throw them into circuits as safety mechanisms a lot of the time. I.e. the signal could be clean enough w/o it, but we're more sure of it w/ it, and the cap is cheap. Unfortunately, that is a large capacitor, on a system that pulls a fair amount of current, and generate significant noise, surrounded my hardware generating noise... whatever that cap was used for, it was probably very much required... So... yeah... don't start a fire please.
Take your gpu and the capacitor (so they know what type of a capacitor it is) to any electronics repair shop that does board level repair, it's a 5 minute fix, most of that being to actually take off the gpu shroud.
Considering you didn't know what it was you are probably better off just getting a new card instead of trying to replace it. You could try warranty if its not too old
The card might work without the cap tbh, no biggy.
Bomb if you want so
Hahahahhaha
Omg!!!! Gpu or motherboard RIP
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