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Would damaging a MB capacitor effect my processor speed?

My processor speed has more than halfed since i took my MB out this weekend to fit a new watercooling solution. Thats the only thing i think i could have done. Nothing else has been knocked or touched.

I've gone from a benchmark score of 19000 to 2500.

You might have accidentally reset the BIOS settings and it's reverted to a failsafe processor speed. Go into the BIOS settings (before boot up) and check.

hmmm i cant see why it would... Ive more or less snapped one off before and its effected nothing

Only reason I can think thats happend is playing around with multiplyer and other ****y stuff (hard to remember since i havnt played in months and months) in Bios.

The processor is still showing up correctly as an x2 4200+ as is the FSB and memory clock settings.

Solder it back on?

Failing that your mobo is fecked I suspect.

Watercooling huh? I have some of that lunacy

Sounds like my previous motherboard & cpu - was decoding some video last summer, and it overheated (it was +33 in the study to start with) - half a dozen beeps and it ground to a halt. When I got it going again it would only run at about 10% of the original speed, had to buy a new motherboard & CPU

Are you sure you fitted you watercooling properly - no gaps around the CPU
What temp is your CPU running at

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Originally Posted by mysteryjimbo

Would damaging a MB capacitor effect my processor speed?

Errrrm, what?
I dunno about that but i do know that you need 100 jiggawatts to make the flux capacitor on the time machine work. If that helps.

Yeah mobo's can be fickle things.
If it was me that'd broke a capacitor on my mobo, id definatley replace it.

It may be a capacitor thats connected to the CPU in some way, or somthing to do with the fsb and maybe starving componets of full power preventing them from running at full chat.

Hard to say really, as I don't know where about the said capacitor is located on the mobo.

Though as has been said above, try re-soldering it back on.
If it still dosn't work i'd replace the mobo.

Fickle things computers....

Originally Posted by Mr Toad

Are you sure you fitted you watercooling properly - no gaps around the CPU
What temp is your CPU running at

Yeah, cooling maybe causing it but i'd imagine if the CPU became so hot as to affect a benchmark that much, then i'm sure the computer would lock up or go pop.

Though, what with the damaged capacitor and that, I know what my moneys on

Worth trying everything before splashing out on a new mobo tho.

A few weeks back my PSU went pop and took out both my CPU and mobo.
Had to use £500 of my SV savings to fix it

My PSU just went pop... waiting to get money to buy a new one.. praying like hell it didnt take half the components with it....

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