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I can see that happen as an upgrade service on ebay. It just needs to be priced competitively.
by selfhoster11 6y ago
I can see that happen as an upgrade service on ebay. It just needs to be priced competitively.
- gruez 6y agoI don't see the economics working out. You're going to be competing against the 3090, which has 24GB of memory and costs 3x as much as a 3070 (MSRP), but also 78% more shaders. Just to match the 3090's compute capacity is going to cost you $1000 (or $891 if you amortize over multiple cards). That leaves you $500 for the memory chips, labor, and equipment. According to [1], the memory chips cost $12/GB. You won't be able to reuse the existing memory chips, so that means you'll need to buy 16GB of chips for each of the cards, which works out to $384. At this point there's only $116 left, and I doubt anyone would go for this considering that the 3090 only costs $116 more, but has more memory (24 GB), and has full warranty. [1] https://www.hardwaretimes.com/doubling-graphics-memory-will-cost-nvidia-and-amd-less-than-12-gb-its-very-likely/ https://www.hardwaretimes.com/doubling-graphics-memory-will-...
- baybal2 6y ago3090 is largely sold out despite the ludicrous pricetag
- bserge 6y agoThe cost is still going to be high and you risk killing your card. Even if someone offered this kind of service, it would only be taken by a very small number of enthusiasts. So nVidia doesn't care.
- selfhoster11 6y agoIf someone is skilled enough to work on surface-mount/BGA components, they likely already know what they are doing. Board level repair vs board level upgrade is a very similar process (to the untrained eye such as mine, at least).