What is this unlabeled cube on my motherboard?

36 Comments

  1. It’s a “choke” some call it a spule. Reduces harmful excess electricity from frying your component

  2. PirateRizz

    It’s nothing, you can peel it off and use it as a paperweight

  3. Lucky-Musician-1448

    Best guess, next to big FETs it looks like power supply, it would be an inductor.

  4. SaerVerth

    Run. Don’t pack. Don’t speak. Get up and go.

  5. Disastrous-Rips

    Shhh we don’t speak about the cube

  6. Frankenfucker

    ![gif](giphy|RH6dKE88sNSrryHCvo|downsized)

  7. Palehorse67

    Plot twist. Right now, there are little people in it being exposed to deadly traps on their quest for freedom.

  8. NotTheFBI12

    It’s a block filled with metal shavings to make your motherboard heavier, you can take it off to use as a paperweight

  9. TheSinoftheTin

    It’s where the magic smoke is packed. If you let it out, your device stops working.

  10. ErzwoDezwo

    It’s a coil. Used for filtering noise out of voltage, energy storage or as LC resonator.

  11. reposti_geraldo69

    ![gif](giphy|Ja6Ne8nC2Zzhu|downsized)

  12. StickyFGC

    Baby companion cube. Good news, it will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, it can’t even speak.

  13. dharknesss

    That is a tungsten cube. Ever wondered why your motherboard is so heavy? This is because it contains this little thing to prove that in fact your cooling is adequate while it isn’t. Tungsten is one of the densest materials in the universe, right after gold and you not realizing she’s into you in high school. Don’t let manufacturers lie to you!

  14. FourteenBeesBB

    It emits microwaves that influence your mood to become a better consoomer

  15. mxcc_attxcc

    looking at some of these comments it’s actually sad that most people can’t even give OP a straight forward helpful answer to a straight forward question. instead we go straight to the memes.

    or maybe it’s just my lack of humor idk

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