First post, by Timecop1983
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- Newbie
Hello Vogons,
Recently I bought the Abit AN7 motherboard (I already own bunch of NF7s 😎 ). It cost me about $10 (shipping included) and it comes bundled with Palomino 1600+ (cooled by Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 3), 2x515 Kingston DDR400 plus the "blue" zalman (cooling the northbridge) and "yellow/gold" zalman (cooling the southbridge). No box and any other accessories (cables, io shield, cd-rom, etc.), but still it should be good deal. However, after I received the package I was confused and angry, because it seems that 3 of 4 capacitors near the CPU socket were missing! The previous owner stated that the mobo is "100% operational and tested". So I decided to run and stress test the mobo by my own. Suprisingly the machine is working fine and it's fully stable (even after overclocking the CPU!).
Please could someone explain me for what purpose are these missing capacitors? Is there any sense to try to solder in the missing capacitors?
Actual pictures plus some explanation of elements on the board...
http://imgur.com/a/A0f2P