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Practicing on a cheap card so I can double the memory on a 4090

A 4090 has 24 GB. There's a mod that doubles it to 48 GB. You add a second set of memory chips on the back of the card, right behind the ones on the front. The scary part is moving the chips. Each one is held on by hundreds of tiny dots of solder. You melt them with hot air, lift the chip off, put…

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  1. 2026-10-08 03:18 · r/LocalLLM
    Practicing on a cheap card so I can double the memory on a 4090

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