First post, by Cga.8086
Just wanted to ask , as many of you buy stuff, sometimes things are ok, sometimes things are broken.
And they break because of time, because memory is not forever (i think there is a life cycle of writes on memory chips). repairs to traces on the back of the motherboards, very common to see motherboards with traces near the edge where they are ruined because of poor handling, repairs for broken capacitors.
Some things you can fix yourself, like caps, if you have the right tools, some other things will need to go to an expert to have them fixed or repaired with expensive equipment.
Of course this is not the case for common hardware, im talking about the more unusual hardware that you know it is worth more than 100 or 200 dollars and you start to think if it deserves to be fixed, because its rare. Not easy to see anymore.
For example i have a 6800Ultra agp card. Broken memory, i also got an ati AIW9800 pro card, broken memory also.
Looking online in china shops i was able to see memory replacements for about 18bucks the set of 10 pieces of memory, but you need to invest in having it repaird with proper equipment,
Is it worth the effort? Has anyone sent something like that to repairs? Sound more like a really difficult job to take out the pieces, prepare them and solder the new ones back