
@wildcatfi fine, we'll do it ourselves
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someone asked why people were getting worked up about this attempted ram expansion, so I summarized it briefly in plain language
Replying to @falcocandidus
they are attempting to add more ram to a system. the old chips were removed, and they've connected wires to an external set of chips.
ram is fast. really fast. the electrical signal travel times are measures in nanonseconds. 1ns can generally travel 6-9 inches on copper.
ram needs the signals to arrive very near the same time, consistently, across every parallel wire.
pcbs go to great lengths to make sure this happens. handcut and handsoldered wires dont have the same precision.
so this person made the timing less precise by doing this, and they also added actual travel distance, which makes the error margins much smaller. it's unlikely to work, but it's possible.
then there's the sheer persistence of this; they had to cut and solder every piece of wire here. ddr5 is 288 pins, so that's 288 individual wires they cut and soldered on both ends. impressive effort.
Replying to @wobsalot @falcocandidus
I was hoping it was transparent enameled wire and not bare copper
this did not go as planned. but, proofreading and frontend work halfway done, some database stuff and some bug fixes. there's always tonight I guess?
today is proofreading and frontend work, and then deep-diving @RareSkills_io zk lessons while my rig autotunes ds 4.1f 1017 on itself.
Replying to @thomasoncrypto
this is why i'm taking all of them apart. i didn't try to not trigger the gridplus when i was taking it apartment, but it's a solid little machine with very few exposed threat vectors















