breaking in my t-bird

[prc00l]

While I was replacing my noisy as heck mini super orb I accidently broke off half of the capacator or chip looking thing on my t-bird.

It's right under the L3 notches, it's the black looking thing with 4 metal clips on either side - I broke 4 of them off. I was wondering if this affects my performance because right now it's running and I don't really see any difference.

Haha this leads me to believe all these things on the chips are cosmetic. Maybe next thing i find out you don't really need a heatsink. . .

 

[Killrose]

I'll have to look at one, maybe they are eproms to ID the CPU correctly to the motherboard?

 

[pillage2001]

<< Haha this leads me to believe all these things on the chips are cosmetic. Maybe next thing i find out you don't really need a heatsink. . . >>



Try booting the pc without one.

 

[Wind]

They dun put the capacitor for NOTHING.

Since u r running fine...don't bother...but if something goes wrong...u know where to look first. LOL.

 

[prc00l]

I'm assuming they don't put those things there for nothing, what is it for though?

 

[Entity23]

maybe its just a spare.......