It's childish behavior to hide the price of your services.
RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
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#52It's childish behavior to hide the price of your services.
It does clearly state that the price is variable depending on what it costs them to source the memory modules.
And other pages give the costs for repairs & diagnostics, which are probably in line (it's effectively a type of 'repair').
(Although prices are in emirati dirhams, given they're based in Dubai)
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Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
#54It's childish behavior to hide the price of your services.
It does clearly state that the price is variable depending on what it costs them to source the memory modules. And other pages give the costs for repairs & diagnostics, which are probably in line (it's effectively a type of 'repair'). (Although prices are in emirati dirhams, given they're based in Dubai)
You still need to know the price before you order. The price being "variable" is no excuse not to mention it.
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#55Ohhhh wow thats my card! The upgraded ones seem so be around 300 usd on Chinese apps. Is that worth it?
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#56This seems to be a company in the UAE. I've noticed in general that the far (and middle) East have far more miscellaneous repair services companies than the West, and also more information online about it (albeit not in English.)
This used to be a common thing even in Portugal, until we started going down the throw away working electronics mindset, and yes we're to blame as well, consumers drive the market.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. Even a smaller town will have a random repair shop where a guy will replace phone screens, solder in a replacement power supply, and he seemingly has some kind of connection that can get him all these parts from Shenzhen. A comparable sized town in America won't have anything comparable other than a Dollar General selling phone chargers.
I have a guy which can fix almost anything. But well, he has high paying job, and has 600k EUR apartment. You can't expect him to waste weekend fixing something for pennies. Unlike a guy living in shed, driving 20+ yo Daewoo Lanos.
Well and also parts are far more available and way cheaper. Had to replace 2 capacitors and a thermistor in an power supply not long ago. Cheapest price I could find for those 3 parts? $40. The highest unit price of those components individually was like $1.25, but I didn't need 20+ of each and everywhere else had crazy shipping costs on top of 20x markup. And there was no place within 300 miles that sold anything like that if I didn't want to wait 2 weeks for it to arrive.
A chinese guy could get those parts for way less, have them shipped way faster, or probably just buy them from a physical store not that far away. The chat, diagnosing, and repair took me less than an hour overall so with cheap parts I could have charged someone $40 and made $35 an hour if I had cheap and available parts while saving them $250. But dealing with parts issues nearly triples my minimum price for a business operation because I either have to spend a bunch of time finding the best deal for parts and have this thing sit on my bench for two weeks+ as they ship, or get ripped off paying 80 dollars to get it within a week. And by time they are spending $120 on a repair, they are already nearly half the price of buying something brand new that can be shipped to their door in 2 days with a 2 year manufacturers warranty, so they wouldn't want to attempt to pay someone to repair it at all.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
A comparable town in the US would absolutely have a local or franchise repair business doing those things. What neither of them will have in abundance are shops replacing BGA modules as an upgrade. For that it'd be major cities only.
At least in Australia, anything outside common phone repairs goes in to the "not worth it" basket. I had a USB-C port snap of a microphone, PCB pads were still fine, just needs someone to use a hot air gun to attach a new port. Repair stores didn't want to touch it. And I can see the logic. Wages are so high that anything that they can't exactly know the repair time and success rate can easily exceed the device value…
I don't entirely understand why they "didn't want to touch it"? Surely they were capable of soldering a new port. I'm sure they'd have had to charge a lot. There's unlikely to be much difference in cost between the repair and a replacement microphone.
But why not offer that? All else being equal I'd rather fix something than put it in landfill and buy a new one. Am I the only one?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't DOS have it too?
Definitely not. DOS had disk compression utilities, but not RAM - there was no reasonable way to accomplish that at the time. You may be thinking of "memory manager" utilities like QEMM and EMM386 which tried to maximize the amount of conventional memory available to programs (i.e. below the 640KB boundary). These programs worked primarily by causing drivers and TSRs to run in upper memory - they didn't actually prov…
So that was what 13yr old me was doing modifying himem.sys to get some stupid game to launch. :-)
Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
#60Is this like Runescape free armour trimming? You send your gpu, and get it back with 2x memory?