I noticed that everyone is having problems insulating the lga775 chipset due to the capacitors close to the socket.
In audio, people move caps around all of the time, and even mount them off-pcb if they want to use upgraded ones that don't fit the board. I did this with my headphone amp and it works great.
Looking at the p5b deluxe, there are only ten caps near the socket. Would it adversely affect the motherboard to simply move them a few centimeters away? There is plenty of free pcb space they could be mounted on.
All you would have to do is desolder them, run some nice teflon insulated silver/copper wire a few cm, solder them to the cap's terminals and the pads on the board. The caps could be hot glued to a small peice of double sided tape, which would be taped to the pcb.
The actual mod would take about fifteen minutes and the difficulty level would be quite easy. The only question I have (and don't have the know how to answer) is will it hurt the motherboard's stability? Assuming solid solder joints, the extra resistance that silver wire would add would be virtually nothing. Seems like it would work, will it?
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