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RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by Gigachad »

fancyfredbot wrote: post #58
Gigachad wrote: post #26

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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?

Tbh they didn’t even open it up. Just decided it was too hard and gave it back. I had to follow a YouTube tutorial to work out how to open it since stuff is designed to hide all visible entry points these days.

Had I handed it to them disassembled and asked them to just solder a port on they might have accepted.

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by thenthenthen »

Gigachad wrote: post #44
themaninthedark wrote: post #41

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We say wages are high in the west, yet we are literally paying people to stand around in line for us. https://www.investigatetv.com/2026/01/16/professional-line-s...

The skill gap between line stander and SMD soldering is fairly large

You could do SMD while standing in line!

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by VBprogrammer »

burner420042 wrote: post #35
knowaveragejoe wrote: post #19

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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.

Replacing components like a phone screen, yeah - but not the kind of thing the OP is talking about. More like replacing a worn USB-C port on a random motherboard using a soldering iron, hot air station, and microscope, or tracking down an unknown failed component on a circuit board, or swapping a random surface-mount Motorola chip in the ECU of your early-2000s car. Sometimes there’s a whole market square where every…

After getting sucked into "I bought this to repair it" YouTube I started looking for things on eBay. I was amazed to find that things like PlayStations with declared faults which made them completely unusable were selling at 70-80% the price as things which were sold as working.

The only thing I can imagine is that there is an underground repair business buying broken items to repair them and resell them that was efficient enough to keep the margin between non-working and working that low.

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by TeMPOraL »

AngryData wrote: post #57
shuwix wrote: post #45

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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 li…

> 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.

Or from a previous customer who had to replace a whole power supply module, and those parts happened to be perfectly fine on the otherwise broken subassembly they left behind for disposal.

That's how repair efficiency enabled by scale looks like when you zoom in. They'll replace your broken screen in 5 minutes and for 10x less than the price of the replacement screen (!), as long as you let them take the damaged one, because someone will actually fix that damaged part and use it as replacement for the next customer, etc. There is enough volume they can decouple and time-shift actual repair and replacement.

(And of course should they not have a freshly repaired part of a kind, there's probably a booth selling those very parts within 50 meters of where they sit, that's also a direct line to some factory in Shenzhen. You know, the kind of booth where they look at you funny if your answer to "how many pieces" has less than three zeros in it.)

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by psd1 »

thenthenthen wrote: post #62
Gigachad wrote: post #44

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The skill gap between line stander and SMD soldering is fairly large

You could do SMD while standing in line!

You know you've done it right when the entire untidy queue pops into an even straight line

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by ssl-3 »

mock-possum wrote: post #43
ssl-3 wrote: post #24

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Bummer. I have a box full of 2080s that are leftovers from a previous foray.

What would it cost to have you ship me one?

They're 2080 Supers, not 2080 Tis. And apparently, RAM upgrades just aren't cheap/easy/possible ATM either way. But if those RAM upgrades were a thing, then I think these cards might max out at 16GB instead of 22GB, as that represents a natural doubling.

For what they are, as they stand: You'd be safer and better-protected to buy one from eBay for ~$200 USD than to get one from some rando on the internet, like me.

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by b112 »

thenthenthen wrote: post #62
Gigachad wrote: post #44

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The skill gap between line stander and SMD soldering is fairly large

You could do SMD while standing in line!

I picture some rig you wear with a small ledge on ypur stomach, and a battery pack on your back, to power the soldering iron. I've wrapped a thin wire around my soldering tip to work on tiny pads, so I envision this plus magnifying eyewear too.

Sadly in the US the bomb squad would soon show and shoot your ass, but maybe you'd get a settlement out of it.

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by swiftcoder »

cubefox wrote: post #54
gertrunde wrote: post #52

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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.

Lucky they aren't actually taking orders anymore, then (due to the current elevated prices of RAM modules)

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Post by cubefox »

swiftcoder wrote: post #68
cubefox wrote: post #54

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You still need to know the price before you order. The price being "variable" is no excuse not to mention it.

Lucky they aren't actually taking orders anymore, then (due to the current elevated prices of RAM modules)

It's just as bad that they do not clearly indicate this on their website.
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