I really appreciate the in depth explanation as to how all of this works. A series on doing something like a soldered ram upgrade from start to finish with complete explanations would be great!
@dimafomichov4194 Жыл бұрын
Realy waiting for X-Kepler working revision. Thanks for your hard worck
@burhan_aldeen3 жыл бұрын
thanks man for all these information u r the best
@iBoffRCC3 жыл бұрын
Youre welcome!
@Rendell0013 жыл бұрын
I just discovered your channel the other day and I'm absolutely blow away by your projects. I'm particularly interested in upgrades for the 2011 model imac and was amazed by your connecting an external gpu via the DVD slot. Thing is, have you considered any CPU upgrades for the 2009-2011 imacs? There is a thread on the MacRumours website dedicated to this topic but they seem to have hit a dead end. The theory is that there is something in the microcode preventing Ivybridge CPUs working in these machines - any thoughts on this?
@PhuketMyMac3 жыл бұрын
That’s great guys! You did a true awesome job.
@iBoffRCC3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@rusavv Жыл бұрын
That is fantastic work! Can it be used for both upgrage A1286 to Thunderbolt-2 chip from retina MacBook Pro and install NVMe?
@neelkalpa2 жыл бұрын
Can I send my Macbook pro 2012 A1286 to your place, to get this XGPU soldered?
@eusebiomamacjr.30252 жыл бұрын
google is amazing, I was just thinking of this idea weeks ago and then KZfaq suggested me this video.
@iBoffRCC2 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
@cccaroccio3 жыл бұрын
Incredible
@iBoffRCC3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@rayproductionsbackupchanne38622 жыл бұрын
i'd love to do stuff like this sometime. now i'm just limited to modding hardware the asy way like tapping power and soldering ethernet directly to the board
@hal9kpl3 жыл бұрын
It’s so amazing! What I’m thinking right now, is it possible to replace/extend SSD in MacBook 2018 Touch Bar and the newest ?
@iBoffRCC3 жыл бұрын
Yes, and no. yes because its replaceable if you master soldering(no one really proved yet that it works), and no because you just cant get any new NAND SSD for it. its a special NAND made for apple
@kevcheng723 жыл бұрын
Incredible!
@redzaraship7853 жыл бұрын
Padu bang..
@iBoffRCC3 жыл бұрын
tq bang
@pot3to4449 ай бұрын
Hello. I plan to do something similar with my Thinkpad T440p, using the empty pads that the GPU would've used for another PCIe device, but after watching this video i want to ask something. If the GPU uses the first 8 PCIe lanes of the CPU for its slot, is it possible to split that somehow to have two x4 devices connected instead of one x8 device? As seen in this video and the intel website, if i want two x4 devices i would need to do x8, x4, x4 split but wouldn't this configuration just split the other 8 lanes that aren't accessible while the 8 that would've been used by the GPU stay as they are?
@iBoffRCC9 ай бұрын
yes youre right. when you activate the PCIe bifurcation switch, it only change the last x8 (most of the time not wired) to x4 x4. So the first x8 will never bifurcate unless you use Upstream PCIe Switch which is not practical.
@pot3to4449 ай бұрын
@@iBoffRCC Ah thank you very much for answering. The news is sad but I will still attempt the mod.
@sachas37903 жыл бұрын
This is a really amazing project? Is it possible to directly connect a GPU to a MacBook Pro 16" similar to the project you've just done?
@iBoffRCC3 жыл бұрын
Yes it is. The same concept is applicable and no bottleneck is expected with that generation of CPU.
@sachas37903 жыл бұрын
@@iBoffRCC Is it possible for you guys to do at a later stage this year or is this quite simple?
@doyinawosanya172 жыл бұрын
Pls can this be done on other non mac laptops with discrete gpus
@najibnajiyama3 жыл бұрын
Boleh convert Mac Mini punya thunderbolt 3 ke pcie lane tak?
@frankli7035 Жыл бұрын
Amazing job, any possible to upgrade early 2013 ones using this way?
@iBoffRCC Жыл бұрын
do you mean the GPU? or nvme?
@frankli7035 Жыл бұрын
@@iBoffRCC nvme maybe?!
@jeawification3 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Could it be possible to do the same with the firewire chip of imac ?
@iBoffRCC3 жыл бұрын
Hi! technically yes, but firewire chip only connected to PCIe x1 to the PCH. So it might not worth the try?