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On the other hand, socketed parts are prone to corrosion at the contacts in adverse conditions. My old x61 had some issues with the SO-DIMM socket corroding fro
by ip26 5y ago
On the other hand, socketed parts are prone to corrosion at the contacts in adverse conditions. My old x61 had some issues with the SO-DIMM socket corroding from all the time in my bike bags.
Soldered-down ram and an add-on socket has seemed like a nice compromise to me.
- black_puppydog 5y agototally guessing here, but that's not the majority of use cases ;)
- kasabali 5y agoSoldered parts are prone to fractures in BGA solder balls which are more annoying and expensive to repair compared to cleaning up sockets and rubbing pads with a pencil eraser one in a while.
- kube-system 5y agoSocketed RAM modules have more solder joints than the alternative. The packages on your socketed RAM are attached to the module the same way they would be attached to the motherboard. BGA has been used across the board since DDR2.
- kasabali 5y agoI don't need to repair memory modules, though. I can toss them away and get a replacement for few dozen bucks. Good luck finding a cheap commodity replacement for the whole motherboard.
- kube-system 5y agoOf all of the parts of your laptop to break and leave you without the availability of a replacement, your RAM is the least of your worries. Damage prone parts that are replaceable are already hard enough to find replacements for. And of all the parts on your mainboard to break, your i/o is going to be the likely culprit. And few laptops modularize those.
- csdvrx 5y agoBake your board in the oven (in a pinch a toaster can do) for a quick-n-dirty reflow