what happens if you REMOVE a GPU capacitor? #shorts

[milanoldemonnikhof]

bro started murdering am4 cpus with removing the pins but now hes removing capacitors from gpus damn

[mistergoutman]

my man is slowly and painfully killing this gpu 💀

[KayBearYT]

This needs to be a series! Break a capacitor till the gpu dies

[joeriverlinde]

Most capacitors on a GPU are to stabilise the voltage for the microchip near it. So removing some capacitors mostly has bad influence on the GPU's stability

[xWatexx]

Redundancy is important in case of failure. You have removed a redundancy and now it is more susceptible to failure.

[SkylinegodzillaBen]

I don't think it's a matter of how many you can remove its more a matter of which ones can you remove

[sashatwobackup]

I only now realized this video was realeased a minute ago

[Maxim-vq]

This guy's workshop is like the unit 731 equivalent for PC components.

[gabrieldenison]

You could likely remove the The majority of them before it actually becomes too unstable to post. A lot of caps on gpus and motherboards are just decoupling caps. They're just used to reduce emi.

[gorytarrafa]

Depends on the capacitor, i was mounting a vintage PC with my first graphics card a 9800GT and when monting the GPU i hit the case and broke a capacitor and the GPU didn't work after giving a black screen. So all depends on the capacitor you remove.

[sunk]

never seen a video, never thought i would watch one like this.

[TomboRectify]

Well it depends on what capacitors you remove. Those ones that make the voltage ripple smaller aren't so crucial, but remove just a single capacitor used for some digital stuff(like timing) and you get no video

[kablooey]

Inferring from my electronics professor, boards like these have a LOT of capacitors on them, and many of them share the same purpose so as a result removing one of them wont kill it.

[goldeneye]

So I remember a computer technician once said if a faulty GPU has a blown compactor, just remove it and don't bother replacing it. It has so much it can survive without one

[JawaazAhmad]

Removing a capacitor won't stop your GPU from working but it will definitely increase the chance of unstable power delivery to the die, most probably leading to some data glitch

[tylerallen]

Its to stabilize power before hitting important components i believe, so if you went in educated about each rail, you could probably get rid of at least 20%-30% of them if not more, but it'd be like a game of minesweeper

[lorenzkalden]

Had the exact same GPU with a blown capacitor on the front a few years ago. It was just one capacitor, but a little bigger than the ones you take off, and the card closed every game after 10 seconds. After replacing it the card worked flawlessly.

[keatonwastaken]

It's like screws, you just put a few extra for bonus reliability incase some of them fail, so it still works with a few missing.

[ats-]

Most of the micro capacitors on a PCB are to clean up the power supply to various components and make it smooth and noise free, if you take off critical ones it will eventually end up causing the component it supplied power to malfunction or fail due to power fluctuations or spikes.

[augustodapino]

Those are either decoupling or bypass caps, so no direct discernable change is done, just less stability on critical conditions