On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:36 AM Jeff Gonzales <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stupid question: Do hobbyists take these, find all the chips, and then > solder them > Yes. The idea generally is to use these as replacements for a motherboard that has been physically damaged past the point of easy repair. So a user might pull most or all the chips from a damaged system and install them on this board. With a modern desoldering pump, you can remove the chips in seconds, then install them in sockets on the new board. Also, a lot of the older boards have sockets on the larger chips, so the only ones that would need to be desoldered are logic and RAM chips. And personally, I'd just replace those, anyway.
