Experiences frequent PC freezes with resistors making contact.
Experiences frequent PC freezes with resistors making contact.
It looks like the capacitors are terminated to the same pads. If you look at the other capacitors within the same area(vertically), you can see a break in-between, indicating solder mask. With the questionable capacitors, you just see silver/gray in that area, indicating they're bridged together. And this might be the root cause of the issue that the user is experiencing, and it just took time for it to be exposed. Sometimes you can bridge parts together, but that is a very specific design, and I have only seen that on rare occasions, and it's a last minute choice too lol. @saltcute Can you get a more clear photo of that location?
Suggest using an iGPU or another GPU if possible. This would help confirm the issue is with that specific GPU. Uncertain about how those connectors were assembled—they appear organized like a checkers board, but it looks off when you inspect closely.
Unless it was faulty during manufacturing, the card's condition seems questionable.