Where to buy capacitors for gpu

[striderdon37]

I have a gtx 970 with a bad cap. Does anyone know where to get these locally?

 

[TJ Hooker]

How do you know it's a bad capacitor? And do you know what capacitance and footprint it has?

It's kinda hard to tell you where to get them locally if you don't tell us where "local" is. If you're willing to buy it online, digikey is usually a pretty good place to buy electronic components.

 

[striderdon37]

Im from cali. I meant to ask if local hardware stores has em. xD

Ill look up digikey

 

[reedo_43]

radio shack?

 

[maxwellmelon]

mouser.com is a good place that ive bought electronics from before.(they have a large selection of about every brand type of capacitor to the point you really should be able to find the exact replacement)

but are your sure a blown cap is all that is damaged?

 

[striderdon37]

I hope its just the cap. Welp the gpu still works just noisy under load. The heavier the load the louder it gets. Ill look into mouser and radio shack

 

[maxwellmelon]

I hope its just the cap. Welp the gpu still works just noisy under load. The heavier the load the louder it gets. Ill look into mouser and radio shack

what is the noise? of course the heavier the load the louder it will get as it will spin the fans up more and more to keep it cool.

 

[TJ Hooker]

How do you know you have a bad cap? Can you actually see physical damage on one of the capacitors on the board?

I'm no expert, but I'm guessing a bad cap would cause issues with stability, or result in the graphics card not working at all. Can't see how it would make a card noisy though.

 

[striderdon37]

It produces an electrical buzzing noise. Its not coil whine. (I have a card that whines) 😱

 

[striderdon37]

I have yet to open the 970. Im actually going to try it out on my 4850 first. xD still just rrying to find out where to get replacements