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BenchZowner
08-19-2011, 06:55 AM
Hey all & Peter :)

I just removed the Ultra-120 extreme from the sandy bridge setup on the Maximus IV Gene-Z because it was acting weird, and I just noticed that ThermalRight's stupid LGA 1155/1156 bracket was in contact with 4 SMD capacitors near the CPU socket ( on the rear side obviously ), and one of them was damaged, and fell off once I tried to clean it up with some tissue paper & alcohol to see clearly if it's ok or not.

Do you happen to have the specs Shamino so I can solder one back there ?

Here's a picture of the board ( hopefully the picture will be clear enough, used my cellphone's cam, uploading now :p ):

http://www.abload.de/img/imag0195t7ky.jpg

Shammy
08-19-2011, 11:48 AM
just 10UF, 0805 size, i wouldnt bother though, u can remove some more without any change to cpu clocks i bet

BenchZowner
08-19-2011, 12:15 PM
That's what I thought too Peter.
The board seems to be working fine with my "secondary" chip, running tests at 5G just fine ( doing some driver testing for 01SE :D ) now.
I'll just solder one cap back for the looks and warranty, and just to be on the very very very safe side ( not that it really matters, technically at least ), don't want any crazy thing to happen to my good 2600K :)

Thanks for the help man :)