It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden ...

But other than that, a gimmick capacitor is a straightforward tool to have in your box of design tricks. Can we take this further? You might wonder if the technique can be applied to PC boards.

we can see clear signs of damage near one of the graphics card's capacitors, and the damage seems to have spread to the motherboard. Impossible-Weight485 describes how he played games on his PC ...