RX580 ram upgrade service

[Crackmonkey]

serious question..
street price on an 8GB RX 580 is now around $500 
street price on an 4GB RX580 is now around $250
the RAM chips themselves MAYBE cost $20

how is no dude with the right equipment and free time offering a $100 ram upgrade?
who always gets rich during a gold rush?

the people selling the equipment

[GalacticRuler]

3 minutes ago, Crackmonkey said:

serious question..
street price on an 8GB RX 580 is now around $500 
street price on an 4GB RX580 is now around $250
the RAM chips themselves MAYBE cost $20

how is no dude with the right equipment and free time offering a $100 ram upgrade?
who always gets rich during a gold rush?

the people selling the equipment

Because RAM chips on GPUs are soldered onto the PCB. Often times the lower RAM GPUs don't have the connectors needed to solder chips, and even if they did, the card would likely have various issues and in some cases the firmware might brick the card.

[Crackmonkey]

7 minutes ago, GalacticRuler said:

Because RAM chips on GPUs are soldered onto the PCB. Often times the lower RAM GPUs don't have the connectors needed to solder chips, and even if they did, the card would likely have various issues and in some cases the firmware might brick the card.

HOT AIR STATION...

10 minute job I think it's 4 chips on most models

 

[GalacticRuler]

1 minute ago, Crackmonkey said:

HOT AIR STATION...

10 minute job I think it's 4 chips on most models

 

I mean, if you are so confident that it can be done, why don't you do it? Because to me it seems like it's nearly impossible to do period, and even if you could technically it would pose a high risk of damaging the card.

[Middcore]

1 minute ago, Crackmonkey said:

HOT AIR STATION...

10 minute job I think it's 4 chips on most models

 

 

So you just read the first sentence of his reply, eh?

 

Have at it, hotshot. Make that cheddar. 

[Crackmonkey]

1 minute ago, Middcore said:

 

So you just read the first sentence of his reply, eh?

 

Have at it, hotshot. Make that cheddar. 

no his response doesn't make sense or dollars 

the PCB is exactly the same on most PCB between the 4GB and 8GB models 
you would need to remove the 4 1GB chips and replace them with 4 2GB modules
then reflash the bios
it aint rocket science 

 

 

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Crackmonkey said:

no his response doesn't make sense or dollars 

the PCB is exactly the same on most PCB between the 4GB and 8GB models 
you would need to remove the 4 1GB chips and replace them with 4 2GB modules
then reflash the bios
it aint rocket science

-snip-

Again, if it is so easy, go ahead and do it why don't ya?

[Crackmonkey]

3 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Again, if it is so easy, go ahead and do it why don't ya?

it's easy for the people with the right equipment...
the same reason I didn't change the fuel pump in my F250 but I knew it could be done.. the guy with the lift made it look easy

 

[GalacticRuler]

Just now, Crackmonkey said:

the guy with the lift made it look easy

 

Experts make things look easy. Just because an expert can do it doesn't mean that anyone who has the equipment can, and even if they are physically capable of it, they would rather not take that risk.

[Crackmonkey]

38 minutes ago, GalacticRuler said:

Experts make things look easy. Just because an expert can do it doesn't mean that anyone who has the equipment can, and even if they are physically capable of it, they would rather not take that risk.

Not many guys with a $3K hot air stations that aren't pretty good at what they do

[Mark Kaine]

8 hours ago, Crackmonkey said:

HOT AIR STATION...

10 minute job I think it's 4 chips on most models

 

The problem is the drivers. 

 

You gotta not only be an ace at the "hot station" (reflow machine?) you also need to be a master hacker (lol)

[Crackmonkey]

2 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

The problem is the drivers. 

 

You gotta not only be an ace at the "hot station" (reflow machine?) you also need to be a master hacker (lol)

bios and flashing utility are widely available

 

[Cheburek]

2 hours ago, Crackmonkey said:

bios and flashing utility are widely available

Do you not understand?

The margin for error is too large out of 10 card only one would succeed,and even so constant crashes bluescreens and bad performance is going to be present.

Not to mention vram is so fast,that if it's not precisely soldered (by a robot)then it's going to not operate correctly due to the large amount of imperfections.