Time to Play... NAME THAT CAP.

Patch · #1 05-11-2010

Your pic shows radial caps. And they very much have polarity - to the tune of glowing wires when switched (personal experience).

There are many types of surface mount caps as well.

We frequently will piggy back those radial caps on top of the surface mount ones.

I thought transistors had 3 leads? His pic has 2 solder points.

Edit: FACE, I suspect the only way to know for absolute sure its value is to have the manufacturer data sheet of the board or have someone with the card remove the component and directly measure the capacitance with a capacimeter.

FACE · #2 05-11-2010

LOL, no. The card didn't come from Ebay, but I know there are quite a few of these BFG's that have the same problem... My brother reallllllyy botched the RMA process. He probably told them to get eff'd... rofl.

Patch is right.. The missing part is indeed a cap. I think it's called a fart or farat cap or something like that (just wanted a reason to type the word FART)... I just need to know the rating so I can get once at least that size or bigger. Might order a pack of them if the volts and capacitance is right for cap mods (adding these kind and then ceramics on top for the win).

A good proper measurement on a good card should get the mystery solved.

@ Chuck... I resized it down. I can post up the original poster size if you like.

Marking on the pcb is c1369.

HITandRUN · #3 05-11-2010

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Originally Posted by Patch

I thought transistors had 3 leads? His pic has 2 solder points.

Sorry I meant resistor. Transistors have indeed 3 or more legs. All we need is Honda to take a look on his card and let us know the markings if any to figure out the value.

FACE · #4 05-11-2010

You wouldn't believe this if I told you.... I can't believe it and I just got off the phone with the guy...

BFG is rocking on the support area tonight.

The support tech had me register the card and he accepted the rma no problem. Too freakin' easy.

Sux though... I kind of wanted to fix it because you never know. I may be getting rid of a 1000+ mhz gpu.

Thanks to BFG. I take back all I said about them.