BGA Rework A Brave New World

[computercaverva]

We are a newer 2 man shop and we are finding ourselves in need of BGA ship replacement more and more often, whether its an SMC or GPU. We are getting a good deal on a used BGA rework station, and are looking to compile a list of stencils to hunt down and buy, for SMCs, AMD GPUs, MUX chips. Has anyone found a one stop shop or does anyone selling a pretty all encompassing set thats worth getting?

 

[dukefawks]

What model rework machine are you getting.
There is no use in reballing GPUs as you MUST use NEW chips. Good luck finding those, most chips that are sold are reballed/remarked garbage.
For SMC/MUX you don't need a rework station. All stencils can be found on Ebay for MUX/SMC.

 

[computercaverva]

We are looking at an ATCO AT-707 Benchtop model, and I started watching your video with Louis about the Fake Overseas GPUs, as well as read through the misery of L2 Computer of which we can already relate to!

 

[G.Beard]

I got my station because of the abundance of 2011 MBPs after Dec 2016.

Had I known the chips would dry up like this, I would have invested my money some RUSOLUT kit instead.
It's not like I invested loads of cash and have not made it back, just that for my money I can have either a fucking huge headache or an ornamental BGA station. Neither was worth it!

 

[dukefawks]

Yeah, lets just say try and source GPUs first, the BGA station is the easy part. Once you find good chips let me know and I will invest $50K and buy them all, yes the situation is THAT bad at this moment. There is no use in getting a BGA machine when all GPUs in the market are garbage.

 

[Nick]

Or do what a new shop around my zone is doing: heat up the GPUs at 200c in a oven or something Linus tech tip style, ask 180€ for it and call it a day!



then you get customers saying: "nah I rather buy a new one. I went in another repair shop spent 200 and it lasted a month and they refused to refund me. I rather replace my machine directly, repair shops are all a scam"


fuckers. Indirectly ruining everyone else's business

 

[computercaverva]

G.Beard dukefawks I've actually been watching your headaches from the sidelines on the forum and was under the impression that the GPU hunt was always this difficult! Is this just a recent situation since there seems to be a swell in the market of A1286 and A1297 boards that their GPUs are either finally going bad or going bad again after the Extended Recall ended?

I've also had my eye on investing the money in PC3000 or RUSOLUT like HDD Recovery Services has, but it seems there is always something cool to throw a few grand at!

 

[G.Beard]

G.Beard dukefawks I've actually been watching your headaches from the sidelines on the forum and was under the impression that the GPU hunt was always this difficult! Is this just a recent situation since there seems to be a swell in the market of A1286 and A1297 boards that their GPUs are either finally going bad or going bad again after the Extended Recall ended?

I've also had my eye on investing the money in PC3000 or RUSOLUT like HDD Recovery Services has, but it seems there is always something cool to throw a few grand at!

Russia dry, Ukraine dry, UK dry, China dry, Israel dry, USA dry, Poland dry, Germany dry, Denmark dry. I tried to order 40 x 1617 chips last week and got 4.
Duke is right. You need to invest way more money in the non existant chips before even thinking about a BGA station.

If you are into making money.... Just think of something else right now.