The Swollen Capacitor

My desktop called off for a few times the other day. It came to my knowledge that there’s two raws of swollen capacitor, which grew a double size of a normal capacitor, as seen in the picture. It was lucky that the capacitors did not burn and ruin the whole CPU. As most of us understand, it is troublesome to replace a new motherboard, instead, it is better to grab another new desktop. What i did to my motherboard was clean up all the dust (dust do affect a CPU’s operation, sometimes) and leave the casing widely open to allow air flow. This is because when capacitors heat up, the CPU turned off.

Not only that capacitors get swollen, there’s also some leakage of brown liquid from two of those capacitors. Think i’ll only get to change the desktop when the whole CPU totally called off. So in order not to let my desktop overloaded at this condition and has possibility of further collapse, i now switch between laptop and desktop, which makes me crazy searching for files that i stored in different locations in these two different electronics.

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