| ▲ | chadgpt3 9 days ago |
| those are easy and cheap to replace |
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| ▲ | jetbalsa 9 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Depends, the SMD caps spread across the board the tiny ones do start to fail and go out of spec over time. they are a right pain to replace and hard to spot one that has gone out of spec to cause the chip to start crashing. |
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| ▲ | grogenaut 9 days ago | parent [-] | | Can you not just move the epxensive part (the gpu itself) to a new carrier board in that situation? Also isn't most of the cost of the GPU itself the design of the board, not actually making one, esp if you can move the heat sinks around? | | |
| ▲ | bgnn 8 days ago | parent | next [-] | | You can and this is absolutely done for GPUs. It's often more feasible to jump to the next gen GPU at this point while the old part goes into the refurbished market. I believe China buys a lit of parts like these. You will never know how much lifetime is left in them though, as there's no history of the chip. | |
| ▲ | beAbU 9 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | "just" | | |
| ▲ | vablings 9 days ago | parent [-] | | BGA Reflow rework is not rocket science, How do you think the PCBA gets assembled in the first place? Its much easier if you dont care about the boards at all and with the huge die sizes on these accelerator chips its worth it to do a board swap |
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| ▲ | lelanthran 9 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Not if you account for labour. |
