[Andrew Zonenberg] has crossed a line in his electronic hobby projects. The Ball Grid Array (BGA) is a type of chip footprint which most hobbyists leave to the professionals. But he’s learned ...

You don’t need much – the most exotic tool is a BGA rework station, holding the mainboard steady&stiff and heating a specific large chip on the board with an infrared lamp from above.

Because this test is based on only one sample of the processor, it is suggested to wait ... to Core Ultra 200S chips on desktop, but in a BGA package. There are some minor differences between ...