Solder more Vram onto a GTX..?

Yeah, that pic is VERY photo-shopped. Note that there's no shaddow behind the edge of the card edge where it was supposedly modified, but there is a shaddow to the left in that little notched area.

first off check out the ram on bolth cards. yours is ddr his is ddr3 noob totaly diff. and you cant mix diff types of ram noob so we all know you dident do so just shut up now.

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5700LE came in all three flavours, DDR, DDR2, and DDR3. Primarily in DDR 128MB configurations. 9200SE comes in a DDR1 64, 128, and 256 MB version, therefore from a technical standpoint it seems feasible.

Please check your facts before posting in suchb a rude manner . Welcome to the forums(To both of you) and I hope you both have a great stay.

Manik_Modder said:

I used this mod on an bfg 5700le

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I won't call BS yet, but some pix would be nice.

i called it. i know all my facts i mean i got old 6600 here i can epoxy v ram to all day it dosent mean its gonna need to work. are you forgetting about surface mount resistors that they leave out? ie you mad have 15 surface mount resistors you need to get and solder on thats why i called bs.

i compared my buddys 128 to my 256 and same deal needs more than just am like surface mount resistors. i compared one of my 512 gtx's to another friends 256 made by the same company and it was also missing them.


heres what you need to do but i highly dobut anyone can.

find the value of all the surfacemount resistors on the veresion of the card with the high vram. ie you will need each value of the tine resistors around the ram or anyouthers that are missing from say the 256 compared to the 512

you then need to aquire the missing resistors. you cant take these off graphic cards a little heat will distroy them and there 1 time use since there so small.

you then need to be extremly good at soldering since priscion machines make these and do this. You need to solder each surface mount resistor on your card but if you use to much solder you can change the value of the resistor what could cause problems. "thats why machines do them"

you then need to solder the ram on. ddr3 is extremly harder to do but ddr is easy if you have the right tools and soldering skills but it is easy to overheat the vram with the soldering tool.



damarble pics really dont prove anything it just proves he can solder vram on his card it dosent prove it works. he still needs to prove he can solder tiny tiny parts what i dont think he can "wouldent suprise me if he just buys a 256 version and post a pic and said he did it lmfao". i mean i can solder or glue more ram on a mx4000 but it dosent mean it will work.


well if you guys baleavehim i got a 2gig 6600 here. i got some old pc133 ram i'll chop up and glue to the 6600 to make the uber 1337 6600. it will have 2 gigs of ram on it but only 256 will be working lol. i'll even glue some ram onto the hsf lmfao


time to brake this out of retirement

ok guys stop freaking out it was just a funny joke/question I am not going to try to do this, and if I did i'd try it with an older card...

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And we have an infinite impropability drive

It probably is possible to add vram however unless you have an electrical engineering degree I would say that its cheaper for you to get on to the classifieds by the cheapest card you can and have fun while thanking god you didn't attempt this on your main card thats worth a whole lot more.

the old voodoo 5 5500's came in:
64mb
148mb
256mb
and 512mb flavors
if i recall correctly. and there are cards that could take so-dimm memory to upgrade the ram for the video card. but i dount think its as easy as picking up a cold heat and some spare ic's dude

i know all the facts seems like you dont. you just cant solder v ram to a card and have it work. it dosest work that way compare 2 of the same exact cards 1 with say 128 or 256 then compare it to a 256 or 512.

can you add v ram? yes you can

can the avrage joe do this? about a 90% chance no. 10% of the people who might be able to are the people who just get stuff and things like that come easy to them.

what do you need to do it? first off a all the values of every part on the graphic card your trying to upgrade to ie 128mb you will need the 256 356 you will need the 512. you then need the parts and a prisison soldering iron with very fine adjustments and a ultra fine tip. and a fan to cool your work down between soldering. yes solding 1 pin can overheat a small part of even some vram for that matter.

can you just solder v ram on your card? no you cant you will need to ad outher small componets that the companys left out to make production of the card easyer and cut the cost down by leaveing out parts that wernt required for the version with the lower vram.

go ahead and flame me i honestly dont care i called him out and all his bs if he did do it he would of posted a pic in his first post for braging rights and becides you all know im right


face it if you could just solder vram to your card and upgrade it this would be posted all over the net. it just dosent work like that. could it work? there may be a small chance of it working on a card that has all the tiny missing parts allready on so you can just solder ram but every card i seen is missing those since there not required. so if anyone finds a card with the missing peaces more power to them and if they do the mod then there the man but common sence will tell you if a card dosent requre somthing as a coust matter they wont put the parts on. i mean chevy dident put a v8 in all there camaros and just not connect 2 cyl to make it a 6cyl.

First off, bignaz, be nice, even if you don't think that people are telling the truth.

Voodoo 5s came in 64MB 128MB and 256MB, but the 256MB version came on a different PCB, as it had twice as many GPUs. A lot of the 64 MB ones had a whole bunch of spaces for memory chips, as did many voodoo 4s and voodoo 3s (though a lot of Voodoo 3s used SGRAM).

I know that people have RAM modded cards with TSOP-II memory, there was a guy on a 3Dfx enthusiast forum who was modding old voodoos with the memory from broken 3Dfx cards and Geforce 4 MX 420s, there were a few people with 32MB Voodoo 3s and 128MB voodoo 5500s. Apparently they didn't require the exact same RAM, just as long as it was SD-RAM of equal or higher speed from the same manufacturer. With TSOP-II i'm not sure it is so much skill or equipment that is required, as loads of time and a steady hand, a lot of people have added RAM to their Xboxes with nothing more than a soldering iron and a solder wick.

I haven't heard about any mods to cards with BGA RAM, I suppose it is possible, but as everybody has been saying, it would probably need specialist equipment or a really brilliant electronics guy to have even a chance of working.

I've had to clean this thread a bit. Watch the language in here.

If he can do it, we will see hopefully. But, this is not an easy or reccomended thing to do.

You obviously dont know all the facts buddy since you mention the use of a soldering iron to solder on BGA parts. Anyone with knowledge of BGA knows you use a specially manufactured hot air gun to melt the pads, not the hot air guns you use to tear up flooring. I've worked with BGA parts in one of my EE labs so I have some knowledge of how they work.

are you sure that none of 5 5500's didnt come with 512mb? i swear i remember that a few monthes after they came out, the 512mb ones were still going for like $350-$400. maybe im wrong. either way, it just shows that there are a variety of amounts of ram that can be on a card, and i doubt its as simple as pulling off the smaller sized chips and soldiering on larger sized ones. and the risk of pwning a high end card like a 7800, prolly isnt worth the small gain in performance. no?