Can someone tell me what this piece is?

[xSeongminx]

Can someone please tell me what this part is (the part is circled in yellow)? Thanks.

http://www.angelfire.com/blog/test206/video_card/index.album?i=3

Btw, I doubt any of you guys can see the part so the link I'll use for referance is...

http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/ref/x850xt-scan-back.jpg

The part that I am curious about is similar to the parts on the bottom where the PCI-E adapter part is (the things that are vertical, in groups of 2 all the way across the gold adapter part). I am assuming that these are the same as the ones that are right next to the group of capacitors (yellow blocks).

 

[Megatomic]

It's nice to have a stockpile of good karma isn't it? Congrats on beating the odds man.

 

[mwmorph]

what's broke? some caps just control volts to some chips. it will function great noe but your card life may be shrter from increased temps on say your mosfets.

 

[xSeongminx]

I'm going to fix it, I just wanted to make sure that it's working so I don't beat a dead horse with money xP. Btw, I just scored 11342 in 03 stock with apps running the background. Not bad for a free card .

 

[bdww00]

oh it was free no warranty?

 

[xSeongminx]

Well, they wouldn't cover physical damage so I was given the card free. Btw, are these cards supposed to be hot? Mine is seriously burning hot (maybe from the loss of the capacitor...).

 

[xSeongminx]

Up for help

 

[Munky]

Those are resistors actually. That's all I can tell you, I dont know what exactly those specific ones do.

 

[xSeongminx]

The card runs without them but I was just wondering if it plays a huge role. LMK.

 

[Bull Dog]

are you still running a stock cooler?

 

[mwmorph]

yup those are volt controlling resistors. it dosent look like it'doing really too much harm to your card, but i'd check temps to be sure.

 

[xSeongminx]

Yes. I'm going to be applying artic silver to it. So the voltage regulator isn't that big of a deal? If it is, would I have to find the exact same voltage regular specifications in order to replace?