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lightningmac

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 4, 2020
6
12
Germany
I have a MacBook Pro 2010 15'' which gets a GPU Kernel Panic after a while. I assume this is the bad low ESR 330µF 2V Tantalum-Capacitor used in this Mac. I want to replace it with a low ESR 470µF 2,5V Niobium-capacitor, since this is the only capacitor I have at home and could possibly fit into this MacBook.
Will this be the right choice? If not, which capacitor would you recommend?
Many thanks in advance.
 

applefan19

macrumors regular
Sep 26, 2019
152
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I have a MacBook Pro 2010 15'' which gets a GPU Kernel Panic after a while. I assume this is the bad low ESR 330µF 2V Tantalum-Capacitor used in this Mac. I want to replace it with a low ESR 470µF 2,5V Niobium-capacitor, since this is the only capacitor I have at home and could possibly fit into this MacBook.
Will this be the right choice? If not, which capacitor would you recommend?
Many thanks in advance.
Actually when I had those errors it was my RAM chip, which would somehow not display as faulty on hardware checks. Replacing that fixed it.
 
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