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The end of the road for the DIY PC?
In article , VanguardLH wrote:
"daytripper" wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:58:33 -0600, VanguardLH wrote: [...] The mobo maker could just make a plastic frame to hold the chip in place (both for position along with affixing to the mobo via spring clip) and the user would use a soldering iron with a tip designed for the BGA grid pattern. The user would buy the mobo they want, the CPU they want, and then do a one-time solder of the CPU onto the mobo. [...] That's some funny stuff right there. Unless you're serious, of course... Cheers! I was serious. You do know what "ball" means in BGA, right? It's a ball of solder. So why can't the chip, even a CPU, come prepped with the balls of solder on its pads, the mobo come with balls of solder on its grid and using feedthroughs so the solder is reached from the backside of the board, and all you have to do is keep the chip pressed against the grid, keep it aligned, heat up the solder gun with a matching grid tip, and just melt all the solder to weld the chip to the grid? You've never applied new solder to the underside of a PCB so it heats the solder on the other side through a feedthrough to use solder wick on the other side when you cannot otherwise reach the other side with a soldering iron? Heat travels. Of course, we're talking about DIY'ers that know how to solder and that it flows towards the heat source and what level of heat to apply and not the boobs that barely know how to push down the level for a ZIF socket. Not having sockets doesn't mean you can't DIY. It means the DIY'er will need better skills than pushing stuff into a socket or slot. If you knew how to solder, you would know a solder wick is used to desolder |
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