Comment by smallmancontrov
3 days ago
Are we not allowed to speak northwestrepair's name or something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNjoREOH80Y
He's a beast at BGA replacement, if you want to learn how to handle big chips he's the one to watch. But yeah, liquid metal sure seems to kill a lot of them, though typically just for the prosaic reason of getting somewhere it shouldn't and shorting something out.
I believe the previous commenter meant Parts-People: https://www.youtube.com/@dellpartspeople
Both seem to regularly face laptops and GPUs respectively that have BGAs shorted out by leaking liquid metal.
I have a couple of modded 4090's here and it is amazing what you can get out of slightly older chips with lots of VRAM.
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