Is there a risk of damaging components, such as a high-end graphics card if my MOBO has swollen caps?

acaciosc

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Hi there! It's my first thread in this forum. I'm afraid to damage my recently bought R9 280x (used). My motherboard is an old ASUS P5GC-MX/1333, with one 1.0 pci-e x16 slot. Two graphics cards have been damaged for a weird (or not) reason: 1 Geforce 8500GT and 1 AMD HD 6450.

My R9 280x crashes my whole pc whenever I try to access the BIOS, while it worked correctly in another MOBO. Since I'm too poor, I didn't want to replace my MOBO, unless you guys can say for sure that I'm at risk by using this pretty old motherboard. I will use it to mine Ethereum and Decred, so it will be running the whole day, non-stop.
 
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Yes of course it can damage other components... Everything is directly linked to the motherboard in some way... Don't use it, Replace the caps if you really want to, its really easy and cheap

acaciosc

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Ok, but why not?

 

acaciosc

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Thank you very much. I'm going to replace my mobo instead, because I found one cheap with 4 PCIe slots. Also, replacing caps is expensive here where I live (ofc I mean the labor, not the capacitors).

 

bishopi5

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Yeah if you are not familiar with a solder, it will cost you buttloads in labor !