Missed the article completely. Here is the linky: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37500/118/

Oops. Sorry, forgot to link - time to get some more coffee :-)

Odd that Gigabyte would be one to point fingers about blown capacitors.




They act is if they never had such a thing, so then I wonder how my board and a few others suffered critical mass a few years back because of blown capacitors.

Blown capacitors are actually a large ammount of dead pcs nowadays. And TBH I'd rather not spend all day as a PC tech diagnosing blown capacitors, so it's the FIRST thigns I look for. If I can't find one I do a turtle test. If that's the case then I test the HDD in a different system, if that's nto the case then I test the RAM in a different system, and if that's STILL no the case, then I say the CPU is dead. Seirously thoguh, more ooften then not its a capacitor on the back releated to te voltage core that blows. Or a transistor. Nothing can stop a capacitor or transistor from dying whne you shove 5 volts through it.

Nice picture -- didn't realize they exploded to that extent. The cap is absolutely destroyed.

Hm, I care about energy savings. =/

The burst capacitor picture was showed in Gigabyte's report is actually taken from a photograph of a VGA card manufactured by another vendor.
Here:
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=11400
So heart-struck!