if u wanna send me ur GPU to try and upgrade it, I will prolly break it :) did wanna add a quick note: I initially booted with PCIE Gen3x8 because of that 'issue'. I tested the full Gen4x16 later and everything works fine. Did I take the gold plating off the PCIE Slot or something? I could not wick that solder off. I'm concerned about the longevity even if it does work rn.
That's why nvidia was genius when they cancel the plan to release 3080 20GB and 3070 16GB. if that happen gamer will keep their gpu longer. AMD got hit with this reality when gamer would rather buy used 6800/6800XT/6900XT instead of RDNA3. AMD had 16% market share during RDNA2 era. Now they only have something like 5 or 6 percent left. That's why AMD try to dial their VRAM amount abit.
"I just followed this Brazilian Surgeon , I did ftry it but I fried Caron Brain out ... Luckly I got to try on my dad brain next after few hick ups and dad glitch he ran out smoothly" aah video XD
I gave myself brain surgery at home lol I removed 3 metal fragments from the middle of the brain I even live streamed it on facebook! I had 3 seizures because the tools were metal I flopped around on the floor with metal tools sticking out of my head but i got lucky all three times and didn't bang the tools in to anything shredding my brain to bits. I healed up fine felt a little weird couldn't explain or tell what it was just different! But after six months went by the feeling was gone. I also gave myself sinus surgery and lung surgery before. And one time i gave my cat ear surgery the vet said his ear needed to be amputated! I was like screw you buddy I will do surgery myself and save his ear it's clear what needs to be done! he said it wont work.... went home gave my cat surgery and i used supper glue instead of stiches and you cant even find the scar he got to keep his ear!!! the vet said even if it worked his ear would be scared disfigured and bald then probably get infected later on and have to be amputated! NOPE! came out flawless! couldn't even tell he had surgery. I used a exacto blade from hobby lobby super glue then gave him diluted ibuprophen in honey and diluted antibiotics i had from dental work. diluted it perfect for his weight. the whole ordeal cost me $12! the vet wanted $2000 to chop it off! loser!
@ryancarper595 lolz idk i did feel pretty funny for a long time but i seem to be back to normal now. I didn't know you were supposed to use nylon forceps instead of steel lol...the brain doesn't like metal.
This isn’t just any RUclips video. This is a movie, about failure and redemption, perseverance and triumph. I was captivated honestly. Really good work.
@ralphinator2 That's exactly their business strategy. "Oh you want more VRAM because your game or software can't even run properly? I guess you'll have to pay double the price". And they're still doing it, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070Ti with 16Gb VRAM, cards that can handle 4K? Come on man.
@emanuelmenin Cameron quit though, Vex went from 0 to success by practicing a lot (always good to practice this stuff on broken kit anyway and surprised they both went straight to just thinking they could do it first go, even Cameron seemed OK with the memory seating which was clearly off).
Reliability engineer/Electronics technician here: For people that have never soldered before, atteptting BGA resoldering and somewhat get it to work is absolutely mental, props to you. Anyway, there are a lot of things you are not doing exactly right. First of all the reballing. You did that completely wrong. After a stencil application what you should do is to heat it with a hot plate and heat the IC modules from the back. blasting it wit hot air at the solder balls will never work. 2. Your soldering iron is a bad choice. Battery powered soldering irons are generally very bad, especially for SMD soldering. These GPU boards have a lot of copper for grounding planes and large power traces , the battery powered irons do not have enough power to keep the joints hot enough while all the copper is wicking heat away even with a pre heater. This is why ur iron cant get all the solder wicked away when wicking. 3. when soldering resistors and capacitors it might be easier to do it with a soldering iron with fine enough tips, the smallest caps and resistors are 0402 and 0201, you should use a tip which the diametre of the tip that is roughly the same width as the componets ur soldeirng. some additional info if you want to do more soldering: 1. ICs like the VRAM chips you were soldering are generally rated for 2 -3 thermal cycles. As in during the manufacturing process the boards with Surface mount components are soldered through a reflow oven where the tempterature is incrased in a controlled termperature gradient optimized for the solder its used. When hand soldering theres a big chance that you heat the VRAM chips for more than 2 times they stops working, so id recommend buying pre balled memory ICs , and get some spares. 2. leaded solder is actually healthier for the operator as long as you dont eat it. Leaded solder flow better so there is less flux that is in the solder wire, the fume during soldering is actually evaporated flux. 3. you can buy and attempt the resoldering with bismusth or indium based solder which melts at below 180 celsius, that makes ur life easier since lower heat is required.
thanks dawg. I don't have a hot plate but i get what you mean. I've also seen ppl use hot air while it is still in the stencil- idk if that would work in my jig. They just get it to the point where the balls melt, then remove the stencil and add more flux. Have u tried it? Fanttik was sponsoring lol, so i was using it, but i get what you mean. Tinning did seem to help a lot and on the TUF board, I had the temp set to like 780F, but it wasn't tinned like the previous one. I didn't really put 2 and 2 together then that i mainly needed more heat. I'll prolly be getting soldering station for future stuff :) How do you solder the resistor down? Do you try to set it in position, then use the iron each side at a time? Hot air was decent, and see a lot of people using it for that, but i do get that it is kinda overkill and is ez to mess up. Another question: how do you really know when a BGA chip is fully soldered down? Are you like watching it fall or reposition itself? Then like checking for even flatness? appreciate the advice. really am just tryna get better and i find it pretty fun (when there isn't so much on the line lol)
@veryfewfriends Well, why not reference other content creators if all they do is blah blah all over again, often about same stuff we already know. Also, it's not down necessarily, it's just up relative to... and yeah, some people do better content, some not so good - what's wrong with making a point and share opinion? Some can agree, others may be not - like you for example, it's just conversation.
Yeah legit most 90% of repair shops that do "board repair" don't even dare touch graphics cards! Vex here is definitely a baller for even trying let alone narrowly succeeding.
I think they're right for beginners. It's not about whether he's the most proficient... it's about showing people what it _really_ takes and what you're going to face when you haven't done this a hundred times.
yep they always do... every once in a while they mess up and release a card too good... like my GTX 1080 it still runs every new game out just fine lol. They don't like that they want you spending $2000 each year for a 10% increase in performance! But I have a rule! I wont buy a card tell i see a 400% increase in performance stuck to that for 25 years now.
@kittystar4874 well the thing with the 1080ti is it was NVIDIAs biggest mistake. They made a card so POWERFUL and LONG LASTING that it just beat out every card they released afterwards. It's a beast. Nowadays Nvidia learned from the mistakes. I bought a 9070xt instead of Nvidia stuff. Because it's far more worth it. Less Price and same performance as a 5070ti? Don't mind if I do!
Yes, but who cares! Why don't they just label everything, give us the schematics so that we can modify it if we want to... we understand, they lie, cheat, steal, but let us modify it. So simple.
I've been a commercial refrigeration service technician for almost 15 years, and I've been in that spot where you're at a complete loss trying to isolate, diagnose, and fix a problem. I admire your resilience, bro. Incredible content.
Nvidia has already spoken up about modding: "Reports suggest NVIDIA is tightening supply chains and potentially "fusing" (permanently burning) specific memory configurations into the silicon of newer chips to prevent these gaming cards from being modded into cheap alternatives for their expensive enterprise AI cards." I expected nothing less, they're always throwing their weight around to force people into using their tech.
@Demotricusyou think masses of people are going to stop buying Nvidia cards because they cant modify the amount of ram on the card? They have like 95% market share. How many people do you think are molding their cards? You are dumb
@Whatsup_Abroad If you can't see that anti-consumer tactics by manufacturers will curb sales, then you're the dumb one. It's not just that people can't mod their cards, it's that they can't _FIX_ their cards and are forced into buying the whole card again. Idiot.
@Daltemir1 CVD/PVD probably plasma sputtering, definetely not 3d printing but RAM, VRAM, Graphics Cards & etc is having a huge OEM lock mechanisms to prevent regular people from assembling their own variations. Hence why the chinese RAM sticks often not work on non-chinese motherboards
I watched the pros do it in china and it looked so easy. And then I watched them struggle for 100 hours. You just know the bros in China are watching this video during lunch and laughing their asses off at the struggle
Yep, if only the resources (schematics etc.) were easier to come by, then this could legitimately get traction, as you could buy old, used, defect, etc. products and salvage the parts (RAM modules etc.) and use them to fix and upgrade other things with.
All these modified memory gpu's die within months. They also suffer from high read/write errors. Just because you add more memory onto the bord doesnt mean the controller knows how to use it.
@heru_ur6017 this depends from the GPU and the quality of the soldering job. In some GPUs the controller can detect and address more RAM than the OEM is allowed to install by Nvidia. They can be upgraded like this and they will work. If the GPU can't be upgraded, it won't ever see the chips at all because the controller lacks the pins to even reach the chips electrically, and the OEM is just reusing the same board design from a higher tier card that can
The cost of labor makes it incredibly unaffordable. To the point where it makes more sense to buy a new gen 16gb card than to upgrade something like a 3070 ti.
If this was easy then we should see this happening long time ago. There are issues even if the memory mod end up being successful. If you want it to be more stable then you need to buy completely new PCB like what the chinese has done with 4090 and 5090.
It is actually playable @ 1440p with some RT\PT performance mods + DLSS, it's even possible to get 90-100 fps using FG, barely fits in 8GB tho. But what I have noticed is that DLSS adds to much noise\artefacts\inconsistency mostly on moving objects like cars, whole picture kinda becomes messy when you move. It was very bad without RR, modern DLSS+RR makes it much better but still to much soap and artefacts. Seems like PT is worth it in native resolution, but that's not something you want to do on 3070 even with 16GB *_-
@xerxeslvsad part the fg is bad cause its not like the rtx40and50 fg its fsr i think using lossless scaling what even is the name for that thing is way better and its like 4$ on steam
Jensen in general does not care about geforce being memory modded. He knows the hurdle and drawback from this kind of modding. So he is not worried about it.
the 3070 should always have been with 16. the 80 with 24. the 90 with 48. Nvidia is shortselling us and has been for a long time. So happy you managed to do it !
@nightfall8753 ai. They're doing all this so that people dont buy a fuckload of them for datacenters instead of their hbm cards (ex h100/h200) which are like $80k+, just for more ram.
@Userdoesnotexit I'm not sure there's any graphics cards with enough raw grunt to produce a framebuffer that could benefit from such a large amount of memory... that is of course assuming you're loading every texture in the game into memory too, on the card's vram, not the system ram.
(Preface, I’ve tried all brands including arc I’m not a ‘fanboy’ per-se) But honestly, with the 5080 being 16gb and being so much more expensive than the 9070xt when the 9070xt isn’t even far behind in horsepower stock, It just makes sense. I got a 5080 this time round, I didn’t get super hyped due to the lack of AMD ‘flagship’ (wanted a 7900xtx replacement) but after seeing the numbers, I always wonder if I made the right choice. 9070XT kicks butt.
Tony would probably make the mod closer to 'economically viable' if you just sent him a good 3070 and the replacement chips, pretty sure it would cost a lot less than buying all the kit (and also cost you less in stress/premature ageing), not mention you'd end up with a card in better shape than factory (all that brittle, lead-free solder replaced for a start).
Man as someone who does Trace repairs, Reballing, and board repairs, This was painful but great effort man. This is just the start down the rabbit whole on working on boards!
51:56 had me CLAPPING AT MY DESK for you bro i am SO happy you got this to work you're a beast my man. As someone studying electronics engineering I couldn't help but see myself in your shoes and i couldn't be any happier man. BRAVO
Nvidia planned to make a 16GB version of this. It would have been super easy for them. I'm pretty sure they had working test models, but they cancelled their plan to make a 16GB variant, for some reason, probably because of supply constraints and/or because they didn't want to hurt sales of the RTX 3080 and/or because they thought they would sell every 3070 that they made regardless. 8GB cards also obviously didn't struggle as much back then, though people were already starting to realize that 8GB was going to be less than ideal in a lot of future games.
How they remove and handle memory chips is a special heat gun platform under the board. You hit it with heat below to keep it warm then heat up top to remove. When you solder, you use the bottom heat to keep the solder from cooling too fast so you can put the chip back on.
Without this tool trying to desolder and resolder those specific memory chip types are a pain. Unless you make a interface to make it easier like get tiny solder balls sitting on the bottom of a chip, and warm them up so they stick to the bottom of the chip, then let cool to harden and place it neatly on the board, then heat and hold it in place.
@kralkralovsky8416its genuinely the new 1080ti. I got a rox strix one and I completely agree on the vram limitation. Just 16 woulda been enough to hold onto this well into the 6000 series. Nvidia knew exactly wtf they were doing by only putting 12 on this thing smh
9:30 yea this is why you TRAIN a lot on scrap boards with scrap chips.. so dont throw away chip's you fried with the heat gun. just mark them as "Deep fried" and use them for training..
Successfully doing this with the lack of appropriate equipment and skills is actually insane. There were so many parts I wish I could've been in your ear with some tips and suggestions lol Good job! Reach out if you need some pointers for the next you attempt something like this!
I'm an electronician and it's something I never wanted to attempt because I knew it was going to be hell (and need more hardware than a non professionnal should own) huge respect guys, this shows so much dedication whoever hires you will have won the lottery it's also why I never bothered with liquid metal it can go bad very fast
It is done on purpose. Nvidia need gamer to keep buying not keep longer. AMD might be generous with VRAM but it really bite them in the back after RDNA 2. most radeon user either keep their card longer or buy cheap used card instead of new RDNA 3 or 4. That's the reason their market share was at dangerously low 6% right now. Now you should understand why AMD very reluctant to make FSR4/Redstone work with RDNA2 or 3 despite those hardware are capable.
Brother!!! I watched this start to finish and my stomach was in my throat, same as you. That was some fantastic drama!!! I appreciate all you went through to produce this. GREAT JOB!!!!! Your perseverance paid off!! Cool project. Going from 8-16 would actually make a difference, I saw people do other silly projects that really didn't make sense. This was awesome, you earned my sub. To quote JFK, "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills..."
electronic engineer here, your main problem is soldering bga with heatgun like that with no failure would be pretty damn lucky, flux is your best friend
59:25 games changing settings is a really easy fix. All you have to do is go into your local app data on the game and go to the config/ini file, change the settings and save. Then go into the files properties and check the read only box.
I'm getting anxiety watching all the mistakes you can easily avoid by watching you tube videos of people who do this stuff professionally most guys use solder paste and just wipe it across the stencil and when putting the modules back down heaps of flux seems to be the trick to float the modules into place. I'm glad you persevered and learned from your mistakes along the way. Congratulations, great work.
Hey Vex !! FIRST.. Thanks for taking us along on your soldering adventure. We have all been there spending days & weeks trying and trying to get something to work. Once you finally succeed the feeling is not like anything else. After all that time and effort to finally getting it to work is a rush. You should do more videos like this. the skills that develop from doing these types of repairs really makes you mentally strong. I've been doing this for 10+ years & you really do get better the more you do it. You will find different tricks for your hands from shaking & tricks on how ot make things much easier to work on. THANKS AGAIN !!! But if your going to continue to use the hot air station please please please do not leave it plugged to the wall when you’re not in front of it. Those specific hot air stations with the fan in the handle will burn up and catch fire. I didn’t believe it, but when I first started, micro soldering, I was sitting at my desk. It randomly turned on, and the tip turned cherry red when I flicked the power switch to turn it off. It did not turn off. I had to unplug it from the wall. It would’ve burned down my shop. I also have seen 10 or 20 other people report the same thing I own an electronics repair business myself in Florida & I really recommend getting one with the pump built into the station, not the hand. We use Sugon / Quick / Atten / JBC(expensive) which are all great & reliable hot air stations. Also AIXUN sell quality soldering iron stations that are good on a budget and or if not better than JBC with a ton of features. We use JBC & AIXUN for our solder iron stations. Be safe and never stop learning great video!!!
I really love watching a real trial and error session like this. You showed us just how difficult this kind of work actually is. When you see someone skilled do something, it often looks very easy, but this video made it clear how much persistence and problem solving it really takes. You stayed determined, learned from every mistake along the way, and kept improving until you finally pulled it off. You got the mindset of a great engineer and this is exactly the kind of content I enjoy most. Thanks for showing the whole process, not just the polished success. Well done!
i have my solder cert and sir for just a dude trying to do things you rock! men are men bk they do not fear breaking things! they need to make things way cooler than stock! 15 years as a electronics tech i worked on iv pumps for baxter.
Absolutely awesome video. I didn't originally sub for this type of content but this was amazing stuff, above and beyond in being entertaining and informative.
Just subscribed to your channel. When that screen read 16gb three of us in Michigan started cheering like it was the World Series. Absolutely insane for sure. Congrats.
10:51 You should CUT the solder wick before use! Don't use the whole strip of wick as it acts like a giant heat sink. Cut a small part off and use with pliers to avoid getting the heat sucked away by the complete roll of wick - it's copper after all.. 39:38 Why use hot air for stuff you can simply solder with the iron in the first place? 40:35 Was about to write about how just holding the cooler is a bad idea - but you figured it out yourself :P 47:25 Finally use of Polyimid tape (e.g. DuPont's Kapton brand) - hooray! Was screaming at the screen already :) Well done!
I just finished the whole thing from start to finish... What a ride... Good job, man. It really shows once again that these cards should've never had less than 16GB. Also you gave me some confidence about a small sff project of mine, at least I don't have to do none of what I just saw.
You don't see MSAA anymore in new titles, since it is not compatible with temporal components in rendering, like denoising and raytracing, so you get some form of TAA and its artifacts. And I think more VRAM is not really as important for old titles, except when modding. The most you get with this is future proofing the card or unlocking better quality settings on current titles. It is not worth for low end cards, like the 60 series, due to the cost.
@vextakes Haha! We've been badgered so much over the "vram" concerns ever since we started talking about deferred MSAA. It was just fresh on the brain. But really, this was a *very* satisfying video. Thank you & your friend for putting in all the hard work. Cheers 😁
@ayumuaikawa I only mentioned the 5080 because for its price it should have come with more than 16gb vram (since AMD already had 20gb and 24gb for last gen 7900XT and XTX) And that there are some edge cases at 4K where even 16gb isn't enough already.
the 40 and 50series 80 class gpus got shafted with smaller bit-buses compared to 30series, rip, 256bit-bus wont cut it for that much memory bandwidth unfortunately, rip
Laptops with low end graphics should just go over to using APUs, which it seems like AMD, and probably also Intel, is going to go for. Only having dedicated graphics in high-end work laptops. Because the "shared" RAM of the laptop, means that you can dedicate the amount you need for system RAM and VRAM, meaning that you just need enough RAM in the system to not have problem with running low on VRAM.
But then they make laptops with apu so much expensive than their traditional counterparts, it feels buying laptop with gpu only choice for gaming like 1080p ultra 60 fps+ (games releaseed before 2024)
I'm commenting this before watching the video. If you did physically add more vram wouldn't you have to have some kind of custom firmware/driver for the card to utilize it? Also that iron your using really isn't made for that kind of work.
I remember a lot of people commenting about how unnecessary 24gb on a 3090 was when it released. I for one was telling people 12gb wasn't enough for RTX at 4k, nobody listened.
Yep and it’s partly the majority of the big tech RUclipsrs fault why we have low vram on some cards still. During the 3000 series practically all of them, Linus, hardware unboxed, Daniel Owen, etc. all parroting 12gb 3060 too much and the 8gb gpus being enough and it’s no problem lmao. Now they’re complaining about low vram
It is still unnecessary even right now. The issue is not that the card really need it but game is being optimize even less and less that it was 5-6 years ago. Funny thing about gamer is they want more VRAM and then screaming at game developer for unoptimized game.
@arenzricodexd4409 er, only you are moaning about un-optimised games. I'm pointing out, even at release, running 4k with RTX on a 3090 used more than 12gb of VRAM. Try again?
@williampinnock2256at release? Back in 2020 CP2077 are one of the most demanding game using RT. even with max setting plus RT vram usage is around 10GB only as tested by TPU.
@arenzricodexd4409 there were several games that pushed VRAM higher than 12gb using max settings. One of the CODs, Portal, Control, and pretty sure CP2077 as well. "Around" 10gb gives you very little margin. I had the card and used it extensively, you?
if u wanna send me ur GPU to try and upgrade it, I will prolly break it :)
did wanna add a quick note:
I initially booted with PCIE Gen3x8 because of that 'issue'. I tested the full Gen4x16 later and everything works fine. Did I take the gold plating off the PCIE Slot or something? I could not wick that solder off. I'm concerned about the longevity even if it does work rn.
hey vex, now that you got some experience, how about you come over to my place to do some re-balling?
What if I have a broken gpu??
NAH Bro you are fine pc components can pack a punch
bro can you give us re9 benchmark ? on your channel ?
You beat the Matrix. Congratulations. You're the one.
The improved stability, 1% lows, is crazy.
Gamers are getting cheated.
Even the 3060 was killer with 12GB.
Now imagine if the 4060 had 16GB.. Let alone the 5060 😭
I have been saying this since the 2000 series but it doesn't matter. No one cares.
yes they are threated like trash)
That's why nvidia was genius when they cancel the plan to release 3080 20GB and 3070 16GB. if that happen gamer will keep their gpu longer. AMD got hit with this reality when gamer would rather buy used 6800/6800XT/6900XT instead of RDNA3. AMD had 16% market share during RDNA2 era. Now they only have something like 5 or 6 percent left. That's why AMD try to dial their VRAM amount abit.
@arenzricodexd4409 the literal moment cuda’s patent drops, health will return to the computer market
bro released a documentary about vram 😭😭
@5t0n3d-G4m3r i knowthat quote, old quote
Bro turned into DIY Hype Jesus it makes me want to try it for my GPU's 😭😭
@5t0n3d-G4m3r If at first you don't succeed, try another way?
@DaAlphaDawg just because it's old doesn't mean it's irrelevant
@Chill.Relax-909 VRAM has already been expensive. The market has changed in the worst ways
Brain Surgery next?
"I just followed this Brazilian Surgeon , I did ftry it but I fried Caron Brain out ... Luckly I got to try on my dad brain next after few hick ups and dad glitch he ran out smoothly"
aah video XD
I gave myself brain surgery at home lol I removed 3 metal fragments from the middle of the brain I even live streamed it on facebook! I had 3 seizures because the tools were metal I flopped around on the floor with metal tools sticking out of my head but i got lucky all three times and didn't bang the tools in to anything shredding my brain to bits. I healed up fine felt a little weird couldn't explain or tell what it was just different! But after six months went by the feeling was gone. I also gave myself sinus surgery and lung surgery before.
And one time i gave my cat ear surgery the vet said his ear needed to be amputated! I was like screw you buddy I will do surgery myself and save his ear it's clear what needs to be done! he said it wont work.... went home gave my cat surgery and i used supper glue instead of stiches and you cant even find the scar he got to keep his ear!!! the vet said even if it worked his ear would be scared disfigured and bald then probably get infected later on and have to be amputated! NOPE! came out flawless! couldn't even tell he had surgery.
I used a exacto blade from hobby lobby super glue then gave him diluted ibuprophen in honey and diluted antibiotics i had from dental work. diluted it perfect for his weight. the whole ordeal cost me $12! the vet wanted $2000 to chop it off! loser!
@kittystar4874 Geezus, you must be fricking insane... ever figured you knocked a few screws loose when you did that to your own brain? lol...
@ryancarper595 lolz idk i did feel pretty funny for a long time but i seem to be back to normal now. I didn't know you were supposed to use nylon forceps instead of steel lol...the brain doesn't like metal.
@kittystar4874 This would've been widely covered online but this never happened
This isn’t just any RUclips video. This is a movie, about failure and redemption, perseverance and triumph. I was captivated honestly. Really good work.
Well written.
nVidia: The way you're meant to be played.
Microsoft: What can we do to you, today?
nvidia is a criminal organization.
There is no way Nvidia didn't know it would perform this way with more memory. They chose profits over us.
Yes, this is how business works. Sadly
they make 16gb cards
@ralphinator2 That's exactly their business strategy. "Oh you want more VRAM because your game or software can't even run properly? I guess you'll have to pay double the price". And they're still doing it, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070Ti with 16Gb VRAM, cards that can handle 4K? Come on man.
Of course they do. This has been the goal all the time as capitalist. Profit over everything else.
@Kopie0830 and making sure the room goes silent and awkward when anyone actually mentions the problem is capitalism.
It's actually unbelievable you guys did this with basically zero experience. Big respect
“Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!" 😂
Not using a cheap temu microscope is even more wild, wtf
I mean, his friend has experience, so you're wrong
Edit: So he learned to do things better. He could also have searched for tutorials on web
@emanuelmenin Cameron quit though, Vex went from 0 to success by practicing a lot (always good to practice this stuff on broken kit anyway and surprised they both went straight to just thinking they could do it first go, even Cameron seemed OK with the memory seating which was clearly off).
well... this is THE experience
Bro I got goosebumps watching it I can’t imagine how it felt for you when it finally worked and passed the tests, this is peak absolute cinema 🙌🏼
Reliability engineer/Electronics technician here: For people that have never soldered before, atteptting BGA resoldering and somewhat get it to work is absolutely mental, props to you. Anyway, there are a lot of things you are not doing exactly right. First of all the reballing. You did that completely wrong. After a stencil application what you should do is to heat it with a hot plate and heat the IC modules from the back. blasting it wit hot air at the solder balls will never work. 2. Your soldering iron is a bad choice. Battery powered soldering irons are generally very bad, especially for SMD soldering. These GPU boards have a lot of copper for grounding planes and large power traces , the battery powered irons do not have enough power to keep the joints hot enough while all the copper is wicking heat away even with a pre heater. This is why ur iron cant get all the solder wicked away when wicking. 3. when soldering resistors and capacitors it might be easier to do it with a soldering iron with fine enough tips, the smallest caps and resistors are 0402 and 0201, you should use a tip which the diametre of the tip that is roughly the same width as the componets ur soldeirng. some additional info if you want to do more soldering: 1. ICs like the VRAM chips you were soldering are generally rated for 2 -3 thermal cycles. As in during the manufacturing process the boards with Surface mount components are soldered through a reflow oven where the tempterature is incrased in a controlled termperature gradient optimized for the solder its used. When hand soldering theres a big chance that you heat the VRAM chips for more than 2 times they stops working, so id recommend buying pre balled memory ICs , and get some spares. 2. leaded solder is actually healthier for the operator as long as you dont eat it. Leaded solder flow better so there is less flux that is in the solder wire, the fume during soldering is actually evaporated flux. 3. you can buy and attempt the resoldering with bismusth or indium based solder which melts at below 180 celsius, that makes ur life easier since lower heat is required.
Live and learn. Vex is definitely living!
This 100%.
thanks dawg.
I don't have a hot plate but i get what you mean. I've also seen ppl use hot air while it is still in the stencil- idk if that would work in my jig. They just get it to the point where the balls melt, then remove the stencil and add more flux. Have u tried it?
Fanttik was sponsoring lol, so i was using it, but i get what you mean. Tinning did seem to help a lot and on the TUF board, I had the temp set to like 780F, but it wasn't tinned like the previous one. I didn't really put 2 and 2 together then that i mainly needed more heat. I'll prolly be getting soldering station for future stuff :)
How do you solder the resistor down? Do you try to set it in position, then use the iron each side at a time? Hot air was decent, and see a lot of people using it for that, but i do get that it is kinda overkill and is ez to mess up.
Another question: how do you really know when a BGA chip is fully soldered down? Are you like watching it fall or reposition itself? Then like checking for even flatness?
appreciate the advice. really am just tryna get better and i find it pretty fun (when there isn't so much on the line lol)
Say, got any type or recommendations on hot air stations/ovens that might minimize our chances of killing the board and chips?
Way good explaining , u should be a teacher....er you already did. Thanks. For alot.
already doing more than 99% of "tech" channels out there, good job
man, you really could just praise the good work without trying to put other people down.
@veryfewfriends Well, why not reference other content creators if all they do is blah blah all over again, often about same stuff we already know. Also, it's not down necessarily, it's just up relative to... and yeah, some people do better content, some not so good - what's wrong with making a point and share opinion? Some can agree, others may be not - like you for example, it's just conversation.
Yeah legit most 90% of repair shops that do "board repair" don't even dare touch graphics cards! Vex here is definitely a baller for even trying let alone narrowly succeeding.
Northwestrepairs has some competition finally!
He doing more then nvidia 😭😭
Maybe the real memory was the memories we made along the way.
lolollool
Yeah, his friend said that.
😅😅😅😅
@emanuelmenin he said the real project is the memories we made along the way. But close
Groan... Well played.
Dude you just inadvertently made one of the best chip replacement tutorials on YT
It’s mid at best bro don’t glaze him
I think they're right for beginners. It's not about whether he's the most proficient... it's about showing people what it _really_ takes and what you're going to face when you haven't done this a hundred times.
@DeadlyRealityTV I think it's better because it was such a shit show it lets you see all the mistakes and how to avoid/fix them
So early Jensen hasn't eaten all my ram yet
Bro is going to become the next Louis Rossmann but for Nvidia and AMD instead of Apple 😭🙏
Just proves the company has bottle necked the card on purpose.
yep they always do... every once in a while they mess up and release a card too good... like my GTX 1080 it still runs every new game out just fine lol. They don't like that they want you spending $2000 each year for a 10% increase in performance! But I have a rule! I wont buy a card tell i see a 400% increase in performance stuck to that for 25 years now.
@kittystar4874 well the thing with the 1080ti is it was NVIDIAs biggest mistake.
They made a card so POWERFUL and LONG LASTING that it just beat out every card they released afterwards. It's a beast.
Nowadays Nvidia learned from the mistakes. I bought a 9070xt instead of Nvidia stuff. Because it's far more worth it. Less Price and same performance as a 5070ti? Don't mind if I do!
Yes, but who cares! Why don't they just label everything, give us the schematics so that we can modify it if we want to... we understand, they lie, cheat, steal, but let us modify it. So simple.
@username-is-not-n4b do they really give you the schematics ? pretty sure they dont
That is what he is saying.. that they don't..
I'm not letting my 3070 watching this
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
after I get my 5080 Ill try this
😆
Lmao😂
im not letting my dying 3060 either
I've been a commercial refrigeration service technician for almost 15 years, and I've been in that spot where you're at a complete loss trying to isolate, diagnose, and fix a problem. I admire your resilience, bro. Incredible content.
Man, seeing you almost burst to tears when you finally got it, i felt that! Well done!!
Spoiler O.o
24:22 average realization when working on computers :D
Nvidia has already spoken up about modding: "Reports suggest NVIDIA is tightening supply chains and potentially "fusing" (permanently burning) specific memory configurations into the silicon of newer chips to prevent these gaming cards from being modded into cheap alternatives for their expensive enterprise AI cards."
I expected nothing less, they're always throwing their weight around to force people into using their tech.
Sounds like a great way to stop people buying _any_ cards off them...
@Demotricusyou think masses of people are going to stop buying Nvidia cards because they cant modify the amount of ram on the card? They have like 95% market share. How many people do you think are molding their cards? You are dumb
@Whatsup_Abroad If you can't see that anti-consumer tactics by manufacturers will curb sales, then you're the dumb one. It's not just that people can't mod their cards, it's that they can't _FIX_ their cards and are forced into buying the whole card again. Idiot.
One reason I already left Nvidia behind after the whole 3070 experience. They cheated us hard; I wont support their bs anymore.
So, who wishes the focused ion beam process got cheaper?
"Building my own GPU" when?
We need a VEX Ti... and please give us at least 16gb Vram. :P
Why don't we wait until he creates another 10-20 DIY enthusiasts before starting our own multi-trillion dollar company 😂🙏🙈🙉🙊
Look up, another ytber did it from multiple MCUs
"3D-printing my own ram" when? 😭
@Daltemir1 CVD/PVD probably plasma sputtering, definetely not 3d printing but RAM, VRAM, Graphics Cards & etc is having a huge OEM lock mechanisms to prevent regular people from assembling their own variations. Hence why the chinese RAM sticks often not work on non-chinese motherboards
46:23 absolutely beautiful moment. well done.
You went from reviewing game performance to this. This is ascension. It's a whole new level for you.
I watched the pros do it in china and it looked so easy. And then I watched them struggle for 100 hours.
You just know the bros in China are watching this video during lunch and laughing their asses off at the struggle
@be0wulfmarshallz this video was painful to me. It's a miracle it worked.
About time businesses of GPU memory replacement start popping up.
Yep, if only the resources (schematics etc.) were easier to come by, then this could legitimately get traction, as you could buy old, used, defect, etc. products and salvage the parts (RAM modules etc.) and use them to fix and upgrade other things with.
All these modified memory gpu's die within months. They also suffer from high read/write errors.
Just because you add more memory onto the bord doesnt mean the controller knows how to use it.
@heru_ur6017 this depends from the GPU and the quality of the soldering job. In some GPUs the controller can detect and address more RAM than the OEM is allowed to install by Nvidia. They can be upgraded like this and they will work.
If the GPU can't be upgraded, it won't ever see the chips at all because the controller lacks the pins to even reach the chips electrically, and the OEM is just reusing the same board design from a higher tier card that can
The cost of labor makes it incredibly unaffordable. To the point where it makes more sense to buy a new gen 16gb card than to upgrade something like a 3070 ti.
If this was easy then we should see this happening long time ago. There are issues even if the memory mod end up being successful. If you want it to be more stable then you need to buy completely new PCB like what the chinese has done with 4090 and 5090.
Path tracing on 3070 is craaazy
His buddy wearing a SUIT while doing thiS LOLL
It is actually playable @ 1440p with some RT\PT performance mods + DLSS, it's even possible to get 90-100 fps using FG, barely fits in 8GB tho. But what I have noticed is that DLSS adds to much noise\artefacts\inconsistency mostly on moving objects like cars, whole picture kinda becomes messy when you move. It was very bad without RR, modern DLSS+RR makes it much better but still to much soap and artefacts. Seems like PT is worth it in native resolution, but that's not something you want to do on 3070 even with 16GB *_-
@xerxeslvsad part the fg is bad cause its not like the rtx40and50 fg its fsr i think using lossless scaling what even is the name for that thing is way better and its like 4$ on steam
Crazy is what Ngreedia did to us. I'm on AMD now because of RT crap and VRAM BS.
remember guys, vex is not suicidal. You stay away from our boy jensen.
I never got what the hell he was doing in that kitchen, with a GPU....maybe some weird asian cultural thing ?
HAHAHA GUYS RUclipsR #1050 ISNT SUICIDAL HAAHAHAHAHA ITS NOT LIKE WE SAY THIS ON EVERY SINGLE CHANNEL THAT MODS PRODUCTS
@876r2rfsyour shit links to the joe Rogan experience. Your argument is invalid.
Jensen in general does not care about geforce being memory modded. He knows the hurdle and drawback from this kind of modding. So he is not worried about it.
the 3070 should always have been with 16. the 80 with 24. the 90 with 48.
Nvidia is shortselling us and has been for a long time.
So happy you managed to do it !
wtf do you need 48gb of v ram for
@nightfall8753 ai. They're doing all this so that people dont buy a fuckload of them for datacenters instead of their hbm cards (ex h100/h200) which are like $80k+, just for more ram.
@nightfall8753 design
@nightfall8753 why not
@Userdoesnotexit I'm not sure there's any graphics cards with enough raw grunt to produce a framebuffer that could benefit from such a large amount of memory... that is of course assuming you're loading every texture in the game into memory too, on the card's vram, not the system ram.
NVIDIA: But you only needs 8 gigs anyway.
ME: buying AMD with 16 gigs.
chud what
(Preface, I’ve tried all brands including arc I’m not a ‘fanboy’ per-se)
But honestly, with the 5080 being 16gb and being so much more expensive than the 9070xt when the 9070xt isn’t even far behind in horsepower stock,
It just makes sense. I got a 5080 this time round, I didn’t get super hyped due to the lack of AMD ‘flagship’ (wanted a 7900xtx replacement) but after seeing the numbers, I always wonder if I made the right choice.
9070XT kicks butt.
@steadyclouds4614i never understood why people even buy the 5080 u either go for 5070Ti/9070XT or 5090 the 5080 isnt worth at all
5070ti is also a really good GPU I love my tuf gaming one I play 4k on all my games 60 plus fps and some games just need some quality dlss
@TheGam3Br3akeR I get 120 fps in max settings 4k in all new games with my RTX 4070 that's what i went with it's only $600!
Dude the moment you finished and your father got in the room , I started crying. That vid is inspirational.
I love the amount of mess ups showing how much can go wrong
Mens sees a random guy messing around with his graphic card AND SUCCEED!!
Men happy:)
Northwest Repair was probably dying from laughing watching this video.
💯
Laughing but proud in the end probably
Tony would probably make the mod closer to 'economically viable' if you just sent him a good 3070 and the replacement chips, pretty sure it would cost a lot less than buying all the kit (and also cost you less in stress/premature ageing), not mention you'd end up with a card in better shape than factory (all that brittle, lead-free solder replaced for a start).
@EliteRock You missed the point. This is not about saving money, but he wanted to do it himself.
@ivandj707 typically you start out easier than jumping straight into it. Heck even doing research before hand would have helped immensely.
Man as someone who does Trace repairs, Reballing, and board repairs, This was painful but great effort man. This is just the start down the rabbit whole on working on boards!
Cat casually drinking out your cup at 1:40 hits my soul.
Nvidia truned a odinary gamer to BGA technician
tuned an ordinary gamer to BGA Specialist ;p
and that's the sad part
First step into a career, I guess. "Thanks, Nvidia"
@buzdalys5524 yes all we wanted to do just play the damn game which the gpu is already capable of.
51:56 had me CLAPPING AT MY DESK for you bro i am SO happy you got this to work you're a beast my man. As someone studying electronics engineering I couldn't help but see myself in your shoes and i couldn't be any happier man. BRAVO
Wow😮 Great work guys!! Hmm is it time to start new project?😅
Bro could've became an Nvidia engineer lol
Nah they don't hire engineers who are not willing to fk over the consumer
That's impressive
@Jerome-l8w Well consumers are for fkn over you need to write customer.
Nah his potential will go wasted with ai slop
Nvidia planned to make a 16GB version of this. It would have been super easy for them. I'm pretty sure they had working test models, but they cancelled their plan to make a 16GB variant, for some reason, probably because of supply constraints and/or because they didn't want to hurt sales of the RTX 3080 and/or because they thought they would sell every 3070 that they made regardless. 8GB cards also obviously didn't struggle as much back then, though people were already starting to realize that 8GB was going to be less than ideal in a lot of future games.
oh FUCK my guy is starting to dabble in micro soldering
How they remove and handle memory chips is a special heat gun platform under the board. You hit it with heat below to keep it warm then heat up top to remove.
When you solder, you use the bottom heat to keep the solder from cooling too fast so you can put the chip back on.
Without this tool trying to desolder and resolder those specific memory chip types are a pain. Unless you make a interface to make it easier like get tiny solder balls sitting on the bottom of a chip, and warm them up so they stick to the bottom of the chip, then let cool to harden and place it neatly on the board, then heat and hold it in place.
He skipped dabbling and went straight to expert level all in one video lol.
@ItIsNot1984 im incredibly impressed he actually pulled it off too holy shit
“I don’t think we’re gonna be good, but we’re gonna get it done” - everyone needs a friend like this
Seriously! Cameron seems like an excellent friend
Huge w for using ddlc music
time to do a 24gb 3080ti now lol
Bro that's what I would love on my 3080ti the only thing holding it back is vram. It still keeps up with the 9070xt and 5070ti 😊
3080ti should have had 16 GB vram all this time
@Stong1337 damn its actually that good?
@kralkralovsky8416its genuinely the new 1080ti. I got a rox strix one and I completely agree on the vram limitation. Just 16 woulda been enough to hold onto this well into the 6000 series. Nvidia knew exactly wtf they were doing by only putting 12 on this thing smh
@PainWrldi bought 6900xt purely because it had more vram lol
Bro the shakiness of doing shit you don't know then finally succeeding, was so happy for you. Good job man
49:40 - are ya winning, son?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
51:25 Wow, just wow, this was stressful, even watching it. I dont know how to say it, i smilled so much bro. 5 days, congrats on your 16gb rtx 3070!🎉
9:30 yea this is why you TRAIN a lot on scrap boards with scrap chips.. so dont throw away chip's you fried with the heat gun. just mark them as "Deep fried" and use them for training..
I kept screaming. You need more flux! through this entire thing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All he really needed is the flux capacitor ! :D
This is for sure going to end up in a Northwest repair video.
Successfully doing this with the lack of appropriate equipment and skills is actually insane. There were so many parts I wish I could've been in your ear with some tips and suggestions lol Good job! Reach out if you need some pointers for the next you attempt something like this!
Now make some DDR5 RAM by soldering ddr2 and ddr3😂
You got me with your DDR math 🤣🤣🤣
I'm an electronician and it's something I never wanted to attempt because I knew it was going to be hell (and need more hardware than a non professionnal should own) huge respect guys, this shows so much dedication whoever hires you will have won the lottery
it's also why I never bothered with liquid metal it can go bad very fast
I hope youtube recommends more videos like this, such a great watch it was.
All well that ends well. ❤
The shaking, sweating, misery -- that's real pain. but you did it. Nice job
The 3070 was done utterly dirty. And so were the 12gb 3080 and 3080 Ti. Those two should have had 16gb. Even 12gb is garbage. But 8gb? Is diabolical.
It is done on purpose. Nvidia need gamer to keep buying not keep longer. AMD might be generous with VRAM but it really bite them in the back after RDNA 2. most radeon user either keep their card longer or buy cheap used card instead of new RDNA 3 or 4. That's the reason their market share was at dangerously low 6% right now. Now you should understand why AMD very reluctant to make FSR4/Redstone work with RDNA2 or 3 despite those hardware are capable.
me with my 3080 10gb, although I don't feel bad about my purchase because It was only $200 second hand
Brother!!! I watched this start to finish and my stomach was in my throat, same as you. That was some fantastic drama!!! I appreciate all you went through to produce this. GREAT JOB!!!!! Your perseverance paid off!! Cool project. Going from 8-16 would actually make a difference, I saw people do other silly projects that really didn't make sense. This was awesome, you earned my sub.
To quote JFK, "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills..."
electronic engineer here, your main problem is soldering bga with heatgun like that with no failure would be pretty damn lucky, flux is your best friend
Yeah, I was like, FLUX BOI FLUX THAT SHIT.
Just clean it afterwards!
59:25 games changing settings is a really easy fix. All you have to do is go into your local app data on the game and go to the config/ini file, change the settings and save. Then go into the files properties and check the read only box.
I have never been more happy for a stranger! Well done! Great job!
I fell asleep, woke back up and finished the rest of the video, it was very good.
Good on you for showing an imperfect job on camera. This is much more accurate to what someone may experience on their first try!
Just go Balls Deep!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm getting anxiety watching all the mistakes you can easily avoid by watching you tube videos of people who do this stuff professionally
most guys use solder paste and just wipe it across the stencil and when putting the modules back down heaps of flux seems to be the trick
to float the modules into place. I'm glad you persevered and learned from your mistakes along the way.
Congratulations, great work.
Just because you said it I won’t make BALL jokes
Hey Vex !! FIRST.. Thanks for taking us along on your soldering adventure. We have all been there spending days & weeks trying and trying to get something to work. Once you finally succeed the feeling is not like anything else. After all that time and effort to finally getting it to work is a rush. You should do more videos like this. the skills that develop from doing these types of repairs really makes you mentally strong. I've been doing this for 10+ years & you really do get better the more you do it. You will find different tricks for your hands from shaking & tricks on how ot make things much easier to work on. THANKS AGAIN !!! But if your going to continue to use the hot air station please please please do not leave it plugged to the wall when you’re not in front of it. Those specific hot air stations with the fan in the handle will burn up and catch fire. I didn’t believe it, but when I first started, micro soldering, I was sitting at my desk. It randomly turned on, and the tip turned cherry red when I flicked the power switch to turn it off. It did not turn off. I had to unplug it from the wall. It would’ve burned down my shop. I also have seen 10 or 20 other people report the same thing I own an electronics repair business myself in Florida & I really recommend getting one with the pump built into the station, not the hand. We use Sugon / Quick / Atten / JBC(expensive) which are all great & reliable hot air stations. Also AIXUN sell quality soldering iron stations that are good on a budget and or if not better than JBC with a ton of features. We use JBC & AIXUN for our solder iron stations. Be safe and never stop learning great video!!!
They should socket the mem modules so anyone can upgrade to whatever he likes - but i dont think that uncle leather jacket will support that. xD
I really love watching a real trial and error session like this. You showed us just how difficult this kind of work actually is. When you see someone skilled do something, it often looks very easy, but this video made it clear how much persistence and problem solving it really takes.
You stayed determined, learned from every mistake along the way, and kept improving until you finally pulled it off. You got the mindset of a great engineer and this is exactly the kind of content I enjoy most. Thanks for showing the whole process, not just the polished success. Well done!
I would have given up with the first fail. Way to keep at it! That card did deserve more VRAM, it was such a waste.
My favourite content by Vex is always with his friends, lmao. He is hilarious alone, but with his friends it's so much more fun to watch.
Finished the vod and holy shit, dude, I'm here getting excited and happy too, lol, this was crazy.
i have my solder cert and sir for just a dude trying to do things you rock! men are men bk they do not fear breaking things! they need to make things way cooler than stock! 15 years as a electronics tech i worked on iv pumps for baxter.
Absolutely awesome video. I didn't originally sub for this type of content but this was amazing stuff, above and beyond in being entertaining and informative.
this is so much fricking fun to watch. very authentic showing of difficulty and precision
What a video man, great job! 🔥
10 YEARS later, STILL #8gb.
#NvidiaSUCKS!
Just subscribed to your channel. When that screen read 16gb three of us in Michigan started cheering like it was the World Series. Absolutely insane for sure. Congrats.
10:51 You should CUT the solder wick before use! Don't use the whole strip of wick as it acts like a giant heat sink. Cut a small part off and use with pliers to avoid getting the heat sucked away by the complete roll of wick - it's copper after all..
39:38 Why use hot air for stuff you can simply solder with the iron in the first place?
40:35 Was about to write about how just holding the cooler is a bad idea - but you figured it out yourself :P
47:25 Finally use of Polyimid tape (e.g. DuPont's Kapton brand) - hooray! Was screaming at the screen already :)
Well done!
It forgot 00:09:00 WAY WAY AND WAY MORE FLUX!
oh shut up mr first solderer..
I just finished the whole thing from start to finish... What a ride... Good job, man.
It really shows once again that these cards should've never had less than 16GB.
Also you gave me some confidence about a small sff project of mine, at least I don't have to do none of what I just saw.
Great video! The 3070 was a perfect card to test.
Also, more vram is nice for deferred rendering with MSAA.
I own a Founders 3080 10gig and i also feel it being held back by it's memory especially at 4k
You don't see MSAA anymore in new titles, since it is not compatible with temporal components in rendering, like denoising and raytracing, so you get some form of TAA and its artifacts. And I think more VRAM is not really as important for old titles, except when modding. The most you get with this is future proofing the card or unlocking better quality settings on current titles. It is not worth for low end cards, like the 60 series, due to the cost.
Good to see a comment from Threat Interactive on here 💯
bro had to make it about AA 💀
thanks dawg
@vextakes Haha! We've been badgered so much over the "vram" concerns ever since we started talking about deferred MSAA. It was just fresh on the brain. But really, this was a *very* satisfying video. Thank you & your friend for putting in all the hard work.
Cheers 😁
Bro im so proud of you, you put in so much work on this project
2-3 years from now it will be the RTX 5080 Mod to 32gb.
or 64GB 5090 why not 😅
@ayumuaikawa I only mentioned the 5080 because for its price it should have come with more than 16gb vram (since AMD already had 20gb and 24gb for last gen 7900XT and XTX) And that there are some edge cases at 4K where even 16gb isn't enough already.
5080 should have had 24gb not 16. 32gb is a bit too much for a 5080.
@spotifex3214you can only change 16 to 32, 24 needs a different memory bus
the 40 and 50series 80 class gpus got shafted with smaller bit-buses compared to 30series, rip, 256bit-bus wont cut it for that much memory bandwidth unfortunately, rip
Now, the time has come 256GiB VRAM on my AMD Card just for Minecraft, YES!
Good luck getting this memory to an afforable price
@Johannes-c7p I think AMD made cards that use SSDs as VRAM for the server market at one point.
@psionx1 link? product? still expensive
Your pure joy at 51:10 i felt it this end! I've never been brave enough to reball nor those tricky little SMD resistors and caps.
you could buy a 2nd gpu with that vram
Wait nah actually it makes sense to buy custom vram as its cheaper. Then, resell the 1st party ones
*You like my jacket?*
IS it shiny leather one?
made out of recycled RAM chips
SHOUT OUT TO VEX FOR RELEASING THE VRAM FILES!!!!!
I'm really so glad I got to be even a small part of this process!
Remember, Vex is NOT suicidal
59:25 - You probably have Nvidia automatically optimizing games turned on in the driver.
bro i think also need this shit to my laptop rtx 4050m 6gb vram
☠(nah i don't think i can do that after watching the whole video)
you need 4gb VRAM chips, which dont exist
Laptops with low end graphics should just go over to using APUs, which it seems like AMD, and probably also Intel, is going to go for. Only having dedicated graphics in high-end work laptops.
Because the "shared" RAM of the laptop, means that you can dedicate the amount you need for system RAM and VRAM, meaning that you just need enough RAM in the system to not have problem with running low on VRAM.
But then they make laptops with apu so much expensive than their traditional counterparts, it feels buying laptop with gpu only choice for gaming like 1080p ultra 60 fps+ (games releaseed before 2024)
this almost got me emotional for you. YOU REALLY stuck this out!! unbelievable work
I do modify electronics and do board repair...
So your first experience in soldering is BGA and yet you succeeded...
You are truly something else.
40:37 that's just straight up gore 🥀💀
😭😭
3:10 "leaded solder, so we do die"
I'm commenting this before watching the video. If you did physically add more vram wouldn't you have to have some kind of custom firmware/driver for the card to utilize it? Also that iron your using really isn't made for that kind of work.
hmm, gonna have to watch to find out
@vextakeswhat a F*cking emotional rollercoaster 😂😂
@51:25 my man, i got excited WITH you. That's super awesome and super hard to do. Proud of you for not giving up.
Crazy how everyone who has commented hasn’t even seen 1/10 of the video yet
u got a problem with that?
@ClippytheDangClipchill tough guy
I remember a lot of people commenting about how unnecessary 24gb on a 3090 was when it released.
I for one was telling people 12gb wasn't enough for RTX at 4k, nobody listened.
Yep and it’s partly the majority of the big tech RUclipsrs fault why we have low vram on some cards still. During the 3000 series practically all of them, Linus, hardware unboxed, Daniel Owen, etc. all parroting 12gb 3060 too much and the 8gb gpus being enough and it’s no problem lmao. Now they’re complaining about low vram
It is still unnecessary even right now. The issue is not that the card really need it but game is being optimize even less and less that it was 5-6 years ago. Funny thing about gamer is they want more VRAM and then screaming at game developer for unoptimized game.
@arenzricodexd4409 er, only you are moaning about un-optimised games.
I'm pointing out, even at release, running 4k with RTX on a 3090 used more than 12gb of VRAM.
Try again?
@williampinnock2256at release? Back in 2020 CP2077 are one of the most demanding game using RT. even with max setting plus RT vram usage is around 10GB only as tested by TPU.
@arenzricodexd4409 there were several games that pushed VRAM higher than 12gb using max settings. One of the CODs, Portal, Control, and pretty sure CP2077 as well. "Around" 10gb gives you very little margin.
I had the card and used it extensively, you?
Paulo Gomes and his teams are insane. Nice work, bro!
1:58 is that the guy from the show "Good Doctor" ?
That reballing looks insane. Supercool how they just kinda slot themselves. Awesome work btw.
huh! what a patience and endurance mate! good job!
nice science you made there, thank you