Hassam Nasir Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.
Notton You left out the "BGA soldering station" and "steady hands" from the bill. Reply
Adrian the Alchemist My wife dropped her 3 year old laptop in October and Broke the screen and backlight. So opened up the laptop when repair cost was twice as much as new, 500 gig SSD was a nice take 1 screw out and retrieve But the 16GB laptop RAM was soldered in, WHY? I could have removed it and sold on or even donated it to someone if it was easily removable but not manufacturer made it nice and hard to do anything with it. So went off to electronics recycling and a £10 coupon from Currys Reply
Gururu There are a lot auctions in my area with old laptops carrying older style DDR4. Will any DDR4 work to get a modern DDR4 system off the gorund? Reply
thestryker Gururu said: There are a lot auctions in my area with old laptops carrying older style DDR4. Will any DDR4 work to get a modern DDR4 system off the gorund? Assuming the laptop is using SODIMMs instead of soldered all you should need is a SODIMM to DIMM adapter. Not necessarily a great long term solution, but a potentially workable one until memory prices become more sane. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/modder-saves-usd130-by-building-32gb-ddr5-desktop-dimms-from-scavenged-laptop-memory-donor-modules-soldered-to-bare-pcb-flashed-with-custom-firmware-even-run-xmp#main
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