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i noticed on my 7800gtx their are some bare soilding points 4 of them actully, they look like their ready for adding RAM, am i right? or am i a total n00b? lol
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adding more ram to your video card
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Your a noob...LOL 
But you can't just solder a ram chip on a vid card, doesn't work that way.
But you can't just solder a ram chip on a vid card, doesn't work that way.
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You would need the BIOS support for it as well. In addition BGA is impossible to solder by hand, you would have to have it done by a professional machine
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Well if you are good with soldering then you could do it, I imagine that there aren't that many soldering points.
But even with that you will need a custom made BIOS to support aditional RAM.
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I doubt that it would or or even be a good idea. I'd just save up for a better card, but hey, if you can pull this off, I'd be impressed.
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If you can find the right ICs for it, and find someone who will just sell you four, and then manage to solder the chip perfectly onto solder points that the chip will cover, then find a BIOS to support the additional memory in that config...then by all means, go for it.
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^^^^Even if he does that it will never work cause cards with 512MB of RAM run on a different PCB's.
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overclucker said:
how do you know if it's for the RAM?
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It wont work.
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Probably just some points left behind from the machines that made it.
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Could be they use the same board for other cards with different ram configurations.
And soldering components like that is practically imposable by hand. It’s almost all done in a solder bath or by machines.
And soldering components like that is practically imposable by hand. It’s almost all done in a solder bath or by machines.
