The Second Portable Athlon (3/10)
Posted by Wesley on
The noticeable feature of this card is that it uses Tiny-BGA memory chips that are used in Ti-grade cards, but not in MX-grade cards. The small size of the chips must've helped in designing this card so small. Here comes the northbridge heatsink removed earlier. It's going to be stuck to those chips with the thermally conductive adhesives from Zalman (they came in the northbridge heatsink package) which is visible on the left corner of the picture.
But wait, there are memory chips in front, too! So I went out to buy some heatsinks meant for cooling MOSFETs, lapped it, then stuck it with the adhesive.
The video card modification is complete. The heatsinks are placed nicely, as you can see. Time to build the case now!