BinarySynapse
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Those caps appear to be used to smooth signals and/or power. Apparently they didn't matter enough to knock things out of tolerance
On a revision 1.1 and up of a mainboard you can often see silkscreened spots where a capacitor was supposed to go, those are then not installed because they weren't necessary and cut to save costs.
But to have every single one of them blown and still have a functional motherboard?
I have seen it before. As you can see most capacitors on the board are still intact, especially those part of the power circuitry (next to the coils and three-pin voltage regulators). Most of the other capacitors just deal with interference and such, helping to keep things within tolerance.
Many mainboards I have seen with blown caps would still work, but would be unstable.