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any dangers in having a chipsink touch a capacitor?

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i just put some bga sinks on my mosfets, i think one of them is slightly touching one of those tall capacitors(i think there's 4 of them) and another one is touching one of those coiled thingys that is right next to teh cpu, the coil looks is copper wire i believe...

so is this something i should worry about?
 
hmm do you think it will either work or not or will it get worse with time?

everything seems fine right now but maybe i need to think of the future :/
 
The capacitor sides are insulated so I wouldnt worry about that, I may worry about the coil if I were you.
 
k got it

i'm going to remove the chipsink and put it side ways, may not cool as good as teh proper way(not that they got hot even...) but it's better than nothing...
 
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