Update: Use GRM32EC80E337ME05L which is a 1210 330uF ceramic and you can do this same repair with one capacitor. Thankyou Alan Liu for the Part#
Typically on Macbook repairs, capacitors like the C7771 on the 820-2330 are replaced with physically larger single poly caps, and this technique works very well and is proven over time.
Using multiple smaller 100uF 1206 size ceramic caps is an alternative strategy I'm trying out and should work with required capacitances between 100~400uF up to 6V3.
This method has been used with success on older Toshiba A300 laptops with the NEC-TOKIN cap failure problem.
NOTE: This is NOT an 820-2330 board; this is a random donor board and I'm using it to demonstrate the replacement.
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