BGA chips, replicability and modding

[emilyadella]

I am not sure if this is the right area, please move to the correct place if not.

There are lots of systems that use soldered in low tdp high performance cpus, it seems like a waste that cpus are not regular salvaged and resold or sold to customers with either an adapter to fit a standard socket. This is technically feasible as been done by few enterprising people. My curiosity is whyy are the not boards for enthusiast and pros with a socket for bga style chips, it seems like a variant on lga would work for cpu, memory, etc... . Having these sockets would allow for memory upgrades on things like gpus, which in the past and recently have been shown to be receptive to more memory. However, I digress this is mostly to the curiosity of why we don't see desktop style boards for with sockets for bga mobile chips. I ask as it seems a lot of people would want to use high end laptop chips for high end media centers that could be run passively and silently.

To clarify is there a technical reason that there are not bga compatible boards with lga style sockets and if there is not technical limitation why aren't manufactures willing to make them.

[Blue4130]

6 minutes ago, emilyadella said:

I am not sure if this is the right area, please move to the correct place if not.

There are lots of systems that use soldered in low tdp high performance cpus, it seems like a waste that cpus are not regular salvaged and resold or sold to customers with either an adapter to fit a standard socket. This is technically feasible as been done by few enterprising people. My curiosity is whyy are the not boards for enthusiast and pros with a socket for bga style chips, it seems like a variant on lga would work for cpu, memory, etc... . Having these sockets would allow for memory upgrades on things like gpus, which in the past and recently have been shown to be receptive to more memory. However, I digress this is mostly to the curiosity of why we don't see desktop style boards for with sockets for bga mobile chips. I ask as it seems a lot of people would want to use high end laptop chips for high end media centers that could be run passively and silently.

To clarify is there a technical reason that there are not bga compatible boards with lga style sockets and if there is not technical limitation why aren't manufactures willing to make them.

The whole point of bga is to save space and make things slimmer. Putting a bga on an socket would completely defeat the reason. In that case, just go straight lga.

[emilyadella]

17 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

The whole point of bga is to save space and make things slimmer. Putting a bga on an socket would completely defeat the reason. In that case, just go straight lga.

My intent would be to be able to use these lower power parts in non-space sensitive applications and to make upgrades possible for things like solder in ram which could easily have a flush press in and lga style socket with friction fit much like replaceable bios chips, with a minimal increase in board area. In the case of the ram upgrades I would hope to see this setup wherever ram is solder now except in thinnest of applications like phones and wearable devices.  As far the cpus whether they solder the cpu to an adapter to make us of it in a normal socket or o better yet just make a socket for the bga chip to avoid soldering at so surplus and recovered chips can be  re-used in silent systems.