Temp Issue or Video Card?

[Salmon Trout]

Dang JJ what a Sharp eye you got  ..  I would have never seen that haha..  I had the same issued before.. ended up killing my Motherboard.. That is probably due to his CPU cooler which isnt working well..

I would recomment for you to Buy a new Motherboard or if possible to replace those capacitors.

The most usual cause of burst capacitors is that they were low quality. A big problem with Abit and MSI motherboards a few years ago was traced to them buying supplies from a company who had stolen a formula for electrolyte and copied it wrongly. Other causes may be just simply poor quality control. Or a suspect PSU. The Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 motherboard used solid capacitors, and was among the better models. I doubt it is the CPU cooler. As I said before, it is not at all clear that the CPU is overheating.

[Salmon Trout]

But after that i did tell the poster to check if the liquid is still there.. But "idk" is just a typing habbit...

If the liquid is gone, the system will fry, not just get a bit unstable after 15 mins.

[BluerjB]

If the liquid is gone, the system will fry, not just get a bit unstable after 15 mins.

true... but somehow my computer did fry when that happened to me.. after cleaning dust out of the pc i for got to plug in the CPU cooler but luckily i didnt use the computer for half the day... i just noticed it because i baught a new videocard that day and had to open the case again the my face was like this  *censored*?!?!

[Salmon Trout]

I just thought... I don't know where the OP is located, but just now in Western Europe we are having a heatwave. The temperature here in England is expected to hit 30 C today. Inside my house it is 24.5 right now at 11:30 AM.

[BluerjB]

That sux for you i guess i have the A/C on haha..

[Salmon Trout]

I'm sorry I was snippy before.

[Gemini6]

Hey everyone, thanks for all the replies!

I'm guessing the capacitors are those round plug things on the left side? (I'm sorry, sorry, sorry - I'm not too bright with this stuff) I did go and check inside the computer again and saw 3 of those were rusted/burnt-looking lol So thank you for catching that JJ - I wouldn't have had a clue unless I took it to a repair shop and they caught it.

My question now is: what would be the easier thing to do? Buy a new motherboard like BluerJB suggested? Or replace the capacitors? - And if you could point me in the direction of where to buy either of these, I'd really, really appreciate it.

I'm beginning to think it's not the cooling system myself as I haven't had any issues with the computer crashing/shutting down on its own like I had with a previous liquid cooling system where the coolant just sort of evaporated. The computer shut down then never started back up again. I also have no idea how to check to see how much coolant is inside the cooling system I have now - if this is important for me to do, I'd love it if someone could instruct me on how to do that.

Thanks so much everyone! I'm soooo sorry for being kind of clueless about all of this.

*Edit: I'm opting to just replace the motherboard lol Hopefully this fixes my problem! But if anyone has anymore suggestions for me, please go ahead and shoot them my way!

[patio]

For what a shop would charge to replace those capacitors (this should not be tried at home ) your probably better off with a new board...
However all things considered ultimately only you can make this call...

[Computer_Commando]

...My question now is: what would be the easier thing to do? Buy a new motherboard like BluerJB suggested? Or replace the capacitors? - And if you could point me in the direction of where to buy either of these, I'd really, really appreciate it...
*Edit: I'm opting to just replace the motherboard lol Hopefully this fixes my problem! But if anyone has anymore suggestions for me, please go ahead and shoot them my way!

Depends on how good your soldering and de-soldering skills are.  Electrolytic caps are probably $2-3/ea from http://www.digikey.com/.  So about $10 in parts.  I have no idea what a shop would charge to replace them; probably more than a new motherboard costs.

[patio]

Better than average skills at soldering are needed for doing any repairs on a MBoard...

[Computer_Commando]

Better than average skills at soldering are needed for doing any repairs on a MBoard...

Getting them out & clearing the thru-holes is the hard part.  You can almost cut them out & then remove the remains.  Installing the new ones is easy.
Big caps are pretty easy to remove; only 2 leads and something big to grab hold of.  Just have to be careful you don't lift a trace in the process of removal.

[rthompson80819]

If Gemini6 was not sure what capacitors were, I think it's a safe bet they have never done any soldering.

[Gemini6]

If Gemini6 was not sure what capacitors were, I think it's a safe bet they have never done any soldering.

lol Indeed

But I am just going to get a new motherboard and have a friend of mine do the actual "job" for me... I'm terrified of computers so yea, no soldering lol

I'm just hoping those capacitors are the problem and I don't replace the motherboard only to end up destroying it again by whatever is the problem lol

Thanks again everyone!

[Computer_Commando]

lol Indeed

But I am just going to get a new motherboard and have a friend of mine do the actual "job" for me... I'm terrified of computers so yea, no soldering lol

I'm just hoping those capacitors are the problem and I don't replace the motherboard only to end up destroying it again by whatever is the problem lol

Thanks again everyone!

JJ nailed it:  Bad caps, 100%.