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Can You Spot Whats wrong with this board?
« on: February 02, 2016, 02:47:04 PM »
Looking online at a motherboard and something caught my eye.  :P  Can anyone spot the issue with this brand new motherboard shown?    ;D





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Re: Can You Spot Whats wrong with this board?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2016, 03:27:03 PM »
No USB3 header is the main thing I notice, though it might be on part of the board not pictured.
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Re: Can You Spot Whats wrong with this board?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2016, 06:56:20 PM »
Standard PCI slot
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Re: Can You Spot Whats wrong with this board?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2016, 07:44:53 PM »
Ok a hint .... check out sink screen details compared to components on board.

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Re: Can You Spot Whats wrong with this board?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2016, 07:58:50 PM »
You could just tell us, then we could all move on :P
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Re: Can You Spot Whats wrong with this board?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2016, 08:03:37 PM »
ok just did some quick searching and it appears that I'm actually wrong.... the capacitors that are can form I thought were all electrolytic and actually the solid capacitors are in can form.  :-[

I have seen them fail before and fail just like electrolytic's swelling and blowing their tops and so I thought they were electrolytic. I thought solid caps were like the tantalum ones where they are dry cubes as in solid state component and when they fail they fail due to over voltage or internal shorting as is common with old tantalum caps in which they burn, but immune to drying up like the can type. So there is nothing wrong with the board pictured. How embarrassing.  :-[



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Re: Can You Spot Whats wrong with this board?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2016, 08:16:16 PM »
Now i can sleep...
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Re: Can You Spot Whats wrong with this board?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2016, 08:52:03 PM »
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A polymer capacitor, or more accurately a polymer electrolytic capacitor, is an electrolytic capacitor (e-cap) with a solid electrolyte of a conductive polymer. It is based on the use of an anode metal and the combination of a polymer electrolyte together with a liquid electrolyte.