Is there a risk of damaging components if my MOBO has swollen caps?

[acaciosc]

I'm afraid to damage my recently bought R9 280x (used). My motherboard is an old ASUS P5GC-MX/1333, with one 1.0 pci-e x16 slot. Two graphics cards have been damaged for a weird (or not) reason: 1 Geforce 8500GT and 1 AMD HD 6450.

My R9 280x crashes my whole pc whenever I try to access the BIOS, while it worked correctly in another MOBO. Since I'm too poor, I didn't want to replace my MOBO, unless you guys can say for sure that I'm at risk by using this pretty old motherboard. I will use it to mine Ethereum and Decred, and it will be running the whole day, non-stop.


EDIT: my reply has been deleted for some weird reason. Just because I said "Well, this has nothing to do with what I'm going to mine. Just read it as "I will use it to mine Bitcoin" (lol), and you will be fine.  "  

Also, it's funny that my thread is in mining section now... because my doubt has nothing to do with mining per se. 

[philipma1957]

I'm afraid to damage my recently bought R9 280x (used). My motherboard is an old ASUS P5GC-MX/1333, with one 1.0 pci-e x16 slot. Two graphics cards have been damaged for a weird (or not) reason: 1 Geforce 8500GT and 1 AMD HD 6450.

My R9 280x crashes my whole pc whenever I try to access the BIOS, while it worked correctly in another MOBO. Since I'm too poor, I didn't want to replace my MOBO, unless you guys can say for sure that I'm at risk by using this pretty old motherboard. I will use it to mine Ethereum and Decred, and it will be running the whole day, non-stop.

do not use it.

also this needs to be in alt coin section  .  I will ask mods to move it.
 

[sidehack]

If you can solder, replace the caps. I don't know how many hundred motherboards I've brought back to life by replacing blown caps.

[philipma1957]

If you can solder, replace the caps. I don't know how many hundred motherboards I've brought back to life by replacing blown caps.

that is a good fix if op has the skills to do it.

[acaciosc]

If you can solder, replace the caps. I don't know how many hundred motherboards I've brought back to life by replacing blown caps.

that is a good fix if op has the skills to do it.

ofc, but I don't.

[acaciosc]

I payed ~17 dollars to replace 3 caps. Better safe than sorry. 

[poptok1]

Have you considered the state of the capacitors in the power supply?
These are more likely to give you problems than the ones in your motherboard. Replacement of the power supply may affect a solution to your problem as swollen caps
on mobo are mostly symptom of bad power delivery.

Have you encounter any problems during burning a CD/DVD?
"Incorrect power calibration" massage while burning indicates that power supply is at its last breath. Proceed with caution, if pwr-supply fails all the components are in serious  danger.