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Using The Pyroelectric Effect To Identify Broken MLCC Capacitors

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Vintage computer hardware can fail in a variety of fascinating ways, with [Bits und Bolts] dealing with an interesting failure mode, in the form of degraded MLCC capacitors on Voodoo 2 graphics car…
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Using The Pyroelectric Effect To Identify Broken MLCC Capacitors

Vintage computer hardware can fail in a variety of fascinating ways, with [Bits und Bolts] dealing with an interesting failure mode, in the form of degraded MLCC capacitors on Voodoo 2 graphics car…

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Tom's Hardware broke the news in on Saturday, November 15, 2025.
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