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A-trend or msi mobo mod? (Read 174 times)
BFG3dfx
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A-trend or msi mobo mod?
30.04.07 at 05:44:38
 
i was just thinking it would be cool to have one of these boads modded to a 3500 chip and 5ns ram, i wonder if this is possible? ppl are changing ram on cards can it also be done on the mobos? and how about chip?
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Re: A-trend or msi mobo mod?
Reply #1 - 30.04.07 at 17:37:56
 
Possible, but VERY difficult! Roll Eyes

Would require a donor card (of course) Wink

And a heat gun to remove the GPU and RAM. Tongue

Also VERY L33T soldering and reworking skills. Shocked

In short, probably not worth the hassle! Tongue
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Re: A-trend or msi mobo mod?
Reply #2 - 30.04.07 at 18:30:32
 

WELL I GOT THE DONOR CARD AND THE MOBO Smiley JUST NOT THE TOOLS OR THE SKILLS Sad
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Re: A-trend or msi mobo mod?
Reply #3 - 30.04.07 at 18:44:34
 
It is impossible to solder BGA GPUs with regular heat-guns or hot-air stations. To un-solder them is very easy, but to solder a BGA chip like that one will need top professional tools and equipaments. Even RAM BGA modules are extremely difficult to work with... It is best to leave the GPU as it is, but to add a much better cooling solution and to replace only the memory chips with faster ones, maybe 5.5 or 5ns and the combo should then scale quite well up to 180+Mhz.
Just my oppinion...
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BFG3dfx
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Re: A-trend or msi mobo mod?
Reply #4 - 30.04.07 at 19:29:03
 
hm, ok, ty for the input, didnt know.
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