101–110 of 141 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah a $60 hot air station may be enough, assuming you have all the consumables and chips. This isn't something even the average techie will risk trying.
The average techie is a coward.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The average techie is a coward.
> coward This can be a result of unexpected and costly if not worse, surprises.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because GPUs have had it soldered since the beginning, while desktops have had it slotted since (close to) the beginning. There are some exceptions to that rule, but it mostly holds. Not to mention that the bar of acceptibility is moving. We had RAM in slots in laptops for a long while, but it's (not so) slowly going away. You can still find laptops with SO-DIMMs, but it's not a given anymore.
A longer time ago, sound cards used to have expandable RAM too. Go back far enough (486) and cache was off-chip on simms too!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
This 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.)
As far as I can tell, it's mostly just cost of labour vs cost of buying a new device. Watching professional repair shop youtube channels is one way to get a feel for the economics of it - it's usually only worth their time if it's a quick fix on an expensive product or a complex data-recovery attempt where the customer is paying much more than the cost of the device itself, because they value the data on it.
Is there such a mod for RTX 3080 TI 12GB?
Considering the price is listed at $0, it doesn’t inspire confidence to do business with this enterprise. The 2080ti is what, 8 years old at this point? Upgrading the RAM is throwing good money after bad.
Huh. On my device it shows up as 0 AED. I wish it could be in $, I don't know how to exchange all that money
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> coward This can be a result of unexpected and costly if not worse, surprises.
No, he's right. Techies are cowards. Those poor but educated people in the slums of Shenzhen are reverse engineering Nvidia GPUs to find out how to add more RAM, so what the fuck are we doing to have less results?
Racking in money printed out of thin air by banks using a sleight of hand then forcing people to give us things in exchange for said printed money under threat of being bombed, invaded, and sanctioned
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah a $60 hot air station may be enough, assuming you have all the consumables and chips. This isn't something even the average techie will risk trying.
The average techie is a coward.