Good stuff buddy, great reballing demonstration and well explained 👏 Just one tiny tip, more of a hack. With the stencil you're using, while you're lining up the solder balls you could put the entire jig inside a bowl or plastic tub. That way you don't get excess balls everywhere and you can collect the remaining balls up in the container too 😁
If I ever have time and head space I'd love to have a go at this - I really appreciate you demystifying the process even if I never get to do it myself. Anything that helps people keep perfectly usable machines out of e-waste!
Well with the dead cpu you got a pretty nice little keychain if the thought hasn't already come to your mind. Anyway it is always nice to see hardware being saved rather than becoming landfill.
Every soldering guide on the internet: don't "sweep" with solder wick, you'll wreck the pads. Every micro-solderer on UA-cam: [sweeps with solder wick, everything works perfectly every time] Great job! Was this just for kicks and demonstration purposes, or do you still have a use for that 17" MBP to keep it alive? I wish my hands were steady enough for micro-soldering. I have a tremor and these days they're barely steady enough for regular soldering anymore (not that it stops me, but the finished jobs don't look as nice as they used to).
I wish I could get my 2011 17inch repaired like this. I believe the GPU got desoldered due to 2011 MBP's known issue. It started getting horizongal stripped lines on display for a while and now it just hangs with a greenish white screen on startup. So sad. It was my first a pretty amazing computer. Wish it had worked for more than 5 years though.
Since AMD never produced revised chipsets for those, they can never be fully repaired, unfortunately. However, I have developed the next best solution; a way to permanently disable the defective GPU, and use Intel HD graphics only. See more here: ua-cam.com/video/lJUyOysbl08/v-deo.html
A flawless job, man. Only one thing, I thought that the surrounding components should be isolated with capton/aluminum tape or something to prevent from accidental melting.
Hey can you please write down in your video description which hardware are you using? I would like to know which preheater, which reball station, which soldering iron and which hot air gun are you using. I want to upgrade my equipment and I need some inspiration or tips. :-D
Thanks for your work. I'm typing on a 2011 15" MacBook thats on 24/7 fixed with your mux reprogramming tool. Also I have the same preheater and hot air setup as you when replacing the apu/cpu, but I've never been successful. This is mostly for reballing PS4 APUs. I preheat the board with the temp set to 300+ and the board temp is around 200 C then I go in with the hot air at 380 C at 80% flow with the rectangular nozzle and give a nudge test. What could I be doing wrong?
Do you have the correct size nozzle? I use the Aoyue 4545W. Also set your air to 100%, or as high as possible. Also make sure you get the nozzle as close as possible without touching it to anything.
I don't think so, 2011 was Sandy bridge and 2012 was Ivy bridge, while a Sandy bridge chipset can work with an Ivy bridge CPU, it requires an update from the manufacturer, so my guess is that Apple never really updated the firmware to do this
Hi. I was wondering... Is it possible to put an MXM graphics card onto these Macbooks (15" or 17")? Using any M.2-like port like the wifi-BT one, or any Sata-M.2 adapter and installing it in the DVD bay? I saw a few people trying to make something like this on old PC notebooks, and I started wondering if this could be possible with these old MBPs, so they could get better graphics available (even if far from anything modern and powerful).
Another great video, how to calculate the temperature of the preheater and the hot air gun when desolder/soldier CPU/GPU?. Most of the time I popcorn the chip 🙈
Great video! Is the proccess similar with the 13 inch mid 2010? I want to try my luck upgrading the CPU on my old macbook. It just sits there now so I though it would be a good way to fual my hobby. Do you know this best CPU compatible with it?
The CPU is soldered to the motherboard so I wouldn't even attempt because its not a typical soldering iron project. He is using a specialized machine and other tools to do this. Also, isn't an application you want to call a "hobby" because its not practical and far from cost efficient.
Hi dosdude. I own the 15 inch mid 2012 unibody macbook pro with damaged audio port and no sound. I have the 2011 15 macbook pro donor logic board and want to solder its audio port onto the 2012. Will it be compatible and is there any chance that the logic board will be damaged while unsoldering? Thanks.
totally unrelated but through BGA soldering, since the slot loading G3's don't have a daughter-board is the G4 swap possible? I'm relatively new to the whole upgrade scene and just got 3 working G3's for 50 bucks today
Hello there. I have a 2008 iMac, the 8.1. So I upgraded to Mojave, but some functions aren’t working properly. So I downgraded to High Sierra, I used your macOS High Sierra Patcher. And work as well, but every time I power on the Mac appears a black screen that says EFI she’ll só I fought it was an error and search on internet for a solution. So I downloaded APFS ROM patcher, and the only thing I read it’s I couldn’t do this in a NVidia, by the way my Graphic board is ATI so I proceder, but now when I turn on my IMac just appears a black screen, no sound only the HD, and some times when I turn on the fun starts in higher speed and loudly, but won’t turn on. Could you help me?
@@dosdude1 very interesting. There’s a lot of 4GB ones floating about, and its the cheapest currently supported mac about. I think it has two chips under a can on the bottom of the board. 4GB and spinning rust makes them painfully slow, but 8 or 16GB and an NVME would make one pretty usable.
I attempted to do something similar by upgrading the cpu in a 2012 13" macbook pro. I couldn't get chip lined up right and it didn't solder properly. I guess its just practice but I can't really burn through machines experimenting
@@dosdude1 yeah I noticed that when I was too far in. Is there a machine you recommend for practicing that isn't too pricey and has easily availabe cpus? I appreciate the responce
@@dosdude1 usually for aligning medium size BGA chips i push down slightly and wiggle until the chip locks into the grooves of the solder pads. Works well as long as the pads are wicked flat first. I haven't done any CPU swaps yet but hopefully the same technique should work
@@dosdude1 ahh okay do yeah I think it's stuck with the duals . Might be either a shot to test though ? I have an old Acer 7740g that is hm55 bit the quads worked on it
You are the real CPU Guru swap deal Collin. I seem to recall you doing this on a Macbook Air board last year? Did the video get put up at all and thanks for sharing
I always wonder if you could switch the cpu in some of these older MacBook pros and honestly I’m surprised but it is pretty interesting and cool it’s possible.
How plausible would it be to upgrade the Ram on the first gen MacBook Airs from 2008-2009? 2GB is a bit tight now days and I was wondering if 4GB maybe 8Gb would be possible?
OH! Laptops like these don't run at full speed without a battery in place? I didin't know that. Does it run at full speed if there is a battery in place, but the battery is dead?
@@dosdude1 Are all Mac/PC laptops designed like that? Yesterday I was thinking I might save some electricity by removing the dead battery from an iBook G4 which is running off the power supply. I also thought removing it might reduce the heat since the PS isn't trying to charge the battery.
Hey Collin I originally disabled the radeon graphics card on my mbp 15” 2011 and was using the intel 300 one. It stinks. I recently re heated the gpu and applied new heat sink. I want to no revert back to my radeon graphics card but dont know what commands or codes to do to override the backup card. Plz help thanks
Considering that board has discrete GPU, I wonder if it's possible to upgrade to a core i7-820qm instead? OK they do run hotter but the performance of the 2-core g1 socket range of CPUs is so piss-poor it doesn't make sense to upgrade to anything less than one of the compatible quad core chips
Hi Thanks for your excelent video. Could you please give us the temparatures used in the preheater and the air low and temperature of the air pistol to remove and to replace CPU, also wich solder do you use Thanks in advance
Good stuff buddy, great reballing demonstration and well explained 👏
Just one tiny tip, more of a hack. With the stencil you're using, while you're lining up the solder balls you could put the entire jig inside a bowl or plastic tub. That way you don't get excess balls everywhere and you can collect the remaining balls up in the container too 😁
Good tip!
Now i go boil my thoughts in holy water
If I ever have time and head space I'd love to have a go at this - I really appreciate you demystifying the process even if I never get to do it myself. Anything that helps people keep perfectly usable machines out of e-waste!
The 2010 lineup of MacBook Pro's have been the best devices I have ever used. My trusty 17' is still in use till today. I love that thing!
No words..... What a pro job..... Wowwwww! This is probably the most advanced job that I saw. All applauses go to You!!!Bravo
Well with the dead cpu you got a pretty nice little keychain if the thought hasn't already come to your mind. Anyway it is always nice to see hardware being saved rather than becoming landfill.
i messed up delidding an athalon 6400 + , its stuck to the ihs with no substrate , thanks for the idea .
Absolute madman at work, love your stuff Collin. Wish I could do BGA rework myself, a CF-19 Mk8 Performance Model with a i7-QM would be VERY nice.
Amazing job. I am just already upgrade my acer aspire 4738z to i7 640m to, from pentium p6100 feels amazing.
Hey Collin You are an Expert on Upgrading/Replacing the CPU Keep Up the Great Work.
Great job. Did more for the environment in this one video than most of the Fridays for Future kids 👍🏼
I did not think it was Possible.
YET THIS GUY MAKES IT WORK !
*HOW ?!??*
You sir, Have every Single Bit of my Respect.
“You can’t upgrade modern laptop cpus”
This guy: “hold my beer”
I love how he is using a DVD drive to recall the cpu
Every soldering guide on the internet: don't "sweep" with solder wick, you'll wreck the pads.
Every micro-solderer on UA-cam: [sweeps with solder wick, everything works perfectly every time]
Great job! Was this just for kicks and demonstration purposes, or do you still have a use for that 17" MBP to keep it alive?
I wish my hands were steady enough for micro-soldering. I have a tremor and these days they're barely steady enough for regular soldering anymore (not that it stops me, but the finished jobs don't look as nice as they used to).
You just have to be very light when wicking or you will damage the pads or solder mask. This isn't my machine, it was a repair for a customer.
Yeah I've never had an issue just use good flux and be gentle. Works fine without pad/solder mask damage
Id love to put an "old" MacBook pro in a Imac case to have the Imac Desktop look and feel with a UPS built in and better cooling.
I wish I could get my 2011 17inch repaired like this. I believe the GPU got desoldered due to 2011 MBP's known issue. It started getting horizongal stripped lines on display for a while and now it just hangs with a greenish white screen on startup. So sad. It was my first a pretty amazing computer. Wish it had worked for more than 5 years though.
Since AMD never produced revised chipsets for those, they can never be fully repaired, unfortunately. However, I have developed the next best solution; a way to permanently disable the defective GPU, and use Intel HD graphics only. See more here: ua-cam.com/video/lJUyOysbl08/v-deo.html
very cool at some point im gonna get the stuff for reballing cpus and gpus, cant wait
A flawless job, man. Only one thing, I thought that the surrounding components should be isolated with capton/aluminum tape or something to prevent from accidental melting.
I really want to learn how to do this, but they aren't teaching it anywhere here in Denmark. We just throw stuff away and buy new stuff :(
Absolute magician, great work 👏
I don't understand how you're removing solder by adding solder? Is that a vacuum soldering iron?
Great placement of a replacement CPU, but at my age (68) I couldn't even hope to place those solder balls properly.
maybe a soft make up brush could help you.
@@AnalogDude_ what’s wrong with you
@@grkb huh?
a verry soft brush, like the ones woman's use to apply ... could move them balls in to their spots and remove the excess balls.
@@AnalogDude_ i'm a dumbass then
Hey can you please write down in your video description which hardware are you using? I would like to know which preheater, which reball station, which soldering iron and which hot air gun are you using. I want to upgrade my equipment and I need some inspiration or tips. :-D
Dosdude1 do you have those snow leopard machine specific restore discs thanks in advance.
That is so cool! Keep it up my man.
Thanks for your work. I'm typing on a 2011 15" MacBook thats on 24/7 fixed with your mux reprogramming tool. Also I have the same preheater and hot air setup as you when replacing the apu/cpu, but I've never been successful. This is mostly for reballing PS4 APUs. I preheat the board with the temp set to 300+ and the board temp is around 200 C then I go in with the hot air at 380 C at 80% flow with the rectangular nozzle and give a nudge test. What could I be doing wrong?
Do you have the correct size nozzle? I use the Aoyue 4545W. Also set your air to 100%, or as high as possible. Also make sure you get the nozzle as close as possible without touching it to anything.
are you working on a new patcher for the old macs? catalina is getting old
Great Job thank you... also thank you for showing me why I NEVER want to do this.
Is it possible to change the CPU on a 2011 MacBook Pro to a Mid 2012?
I don't think so, 2011 was Sandy bridge and 2012 was Ivy bridge, while a Sandy bridge chipset can work with an Ivy bridge CPU, it requires an update from the manufacturer, so my guess is that Apple never really updated the firmware to do this
Wow, awesome job. Is that just a hot air station with a mounting system?
Great job, always fun to do such swaps :D
See the crack on the broken cpu?.. this model seemed to have a problem with cracking cpu die’s..
Nice heating surface lol.. that a DVD player?
Curious.. why not use paste instead of the tedious balls?
What about the i7 740QM? Isn't that also first gen?
Damn, good job! I can't help but wonder though, is this worth it on an over 10 year old computer?
hi
very good video, its very informative
wich equipment you use?
i mean the preheater and heat station?
thanks
first time see an American guy does this
Hi Collin, thanks for this video. very interesting. Do you think it would be possible to swap the 15 " Macbook Pro 2010 CPU on the 17" 2010 board ?
Yes, that's exactly what I did in this video. They use the same CPUs.
@@dosdude1 which bga machine r unusing i mean rework station for removing cpu, share heat profile
MacBook pro 13 2009 problem wifi: hardware not installed please halp me.
High searra patch After installing.
Which hot air station do you use?
Is it possible to change cpu to any 988 g1, like 840qm, which not from macbooks list?
is it possible to just swap the Boards ?
Why not just swap the boards if one CPU is dead and the other is good? Was the donor board not working?
What was broken in the donor board?
It had a bad GPU. Which I could have also repaired, but I needed the CPU for this one, as it was for a customer.
Hi. I was wondering... Is it possible to put an MXM graphics card onto these Macbooks (15" or 17")? Using any M.2-like port like the wifi-BT one, or any Sata-M.2 adapter and installing it in the DVD bay?
I saw a few people trying to make something like this on old PC notebooks, and I started wondering if this could be possible with these old MBPs, so they could get better graphics available (even if far from anything modern and powerful).
Bro im frm Pakistan i have 2010 apple macbook pro i7 but ram is so low it can upgrade or not ???
Another great video, how to calculate the temperature of the preheater and the hot air gun when desolder/soldier CPU/GPU?. Most of the time I popcorn the chip 🙈
Excellent work and video! I have also a 2010 17 inch MacBook Pro with the 2,66 ghz i7. Can I buy the 2.8 ghz i7 chip?
Geez, was that a tiny suction cup?!
Yes, it's the IC puller part of the hot air station.
I'm a 2011 MacBook Pro13 inch early i5 dual core, can I upgrade to i7 4 cores?
Amazing as always.
Great video! Is the proccess similar with the 13 inch mid 2010? I want to try my luck upgrading the CPU on my old macbook. It just sits there now so I though it would be a good way to fual my hobby. Do you know this best CPU compatible with it?
I also have the same but I'm not sure either
The CPU is soldered to the motherboard so I wouldn't even attempt because its not a typical soldering iron project. He is using a specialized machine and other tools to do this. Also, isn't an application you want to call a "hobby" because its not practical and far from cost efficient.
Youre crazy and I love it!
Legend....
bro i have a drx 10 card can i upgrade it to dx 11 is that possible ?
Great work man
Hi dosdude. I own the 15 inch mid 2012 unibody macbook pro with damaged audio port and no sound. I have the 2011 15 macbook pro donor logic board and want to solder its audio port onto the 2012. Will it be compatible and is there any chance that the logic board will be damaged while unsoldering?
Thanks.
totally unrelated but through BGA soldering, since the slot loading G3's don't have a daughter-board is the G4 swap possible? I'm relatively new to the whole upgrade scene and just got 3 working G3's for 50 bucks today
It depends on the model, but most are. Any that come stock with the PPC750L CPU are G4-swappable.
Hello there. I have a 2008 iMac, the 8.1. So I upgraded to Mojave, but some functions aren’t working properly. So I downgraded to High Sierra, I used your macOS High Sierra Patcher. And work as well, but every time I power on the Mac appears a black screen that says EFI she’ll só I fought it was an error and search on internet for a solution. So I downloaded APFS ROM patcher, and the only thing I read it’s I couldn’t do this in a NVidia, by the way my Graphic board is ATI so I proceder, but now when I turn on my IMac just appears a black screen, no sound only the HD, and some times when I turn on the fun starts in higher speed and loudly, but won’t turn on. Could you help me?
is it worth upgrading the parts on one's mac or should i just get a new computer ?
Do you use a Puhui T8280 Preheater bro?
Yes.
Which PCB preheater do you use for stuff like that?
Isn’t it very unusual that a soldered cpu get defective???
Great video
i have a dead one of these with a bad graphics chipset sucks it is just sitting on a shelf
I have the same silicon work mat
How plausible do you think RAM upgrades on a 2014 Mac mini would be? Cold you just swap the chips?
Not too bad. Just swap the chips and set strapping resistors accordingly.
@@dosdude1 very interesting. There’s a lot of 4GB ones floating about, and its the cheapest currently supported mac about. I think it has two chips under a can on the bottom of the board. 4GB and spinning rust makes them painfully slow, but 8 or 16GB and an NVME would make one pretty usable.
GG bro.. as always..
I attempted to do something similar by upgrading the cpu in a 2012 13" macbook pro. I couldn't get chip lined up right and it didn't solder properly. I guess its just practice but I can't really burn through machines experimenting
Those are more difficult, as they don't have silkscreen to help you align it.
@@dosdude1 yeah I noticed that when I was too far in. Is there a machine you recommend for practicing that isn't too pricey and has easily availabe cpus? I appreciate the responce
@@dosdude1 Only 17-inch Unibody models have silkscreened PCBs. And most older non-unibody MacBooks
@@dosdude1 usually for aligning medium size BGA chips i push down slightly and wiggle until the chip locks into the grooves of the solder pads. Works well as long as the pads are wicked flat first. I haven't done any CPU swaps yet but hopefully the same technique should work
What brand of flux do you use?
I normally use Amtech NC-559-V2-TF.
@@dosdude1 Thank you! Excellent channel!
good boy
thanks, very interesting
How did the CPU fry in that machine?
The owner dropped the metal back case on the board while it was on, and connected an 8.6V power rail to the 1.5V rail of the CPU.
Great Stuff!!!!!!
I like how his hands look 30 but his voice is 17.
Whooo ! GG
so the chipset wont support the quads ?
There was never an Arrandale mobile CPU that was quad core.
@@dosdude1 what about Clarkdale ? If it's an hm57 chipset it might support it
@@amdintelxsniperx These are HM55.
@@dosdude1 ahh okay do yeah I think it's stuck with the duals . Might be either a shot to test though ? I have an old Acer 7740g that is hm55 bit the quads worked on it
With the increased CPU performance the GPU can become a bottleneck
This video was filmed in the backrooms.
Спасибо за Catalina patcher.mbp 2008 super.
👏👏👏🏆
Poor IDE CD drive.
If only we could replace the gpu as well.
You are the real CPU Guru swap deal Collin.
I seem to recall you doing this on a Macbook Air board last year? Did the video get put up at all and thanks for sharing
I never made a video of that one unfortunately. I will if I have to do it again, though.
@@dosdude1 imagine trying to do same thing with the graphics chip
I always wonder if you could switch the cpu in some of these older MacBook pros and honestly I’m surprised but it is pretty interesting and cool it’s possible.
Really admire your patience and concentration in performing the soldering work on the CPU!
will a core i7-940XM work on that board? it's the same socket G1
What was that little suction tool you used to pick up the cpu after you had desoddered it
How plausible would it be to upgrade the Ram on the first gen MacBook Airs from 2008-2009? 2GB is a bit tight now days and I was wondering if 4GB maybe 8Gb would be possible?
Im seeing a mix of answers to this. Id say try 2 4gb sticks and see if it works. I believe those run ddr3 but I could be wrong
4gb will work definitely not sure about 8 but try it
Fascinating. Way above my pay grade, both in electronic knowledge and skills. Always have been envious of wizards like you.
Dosdude you are really game. Is there a logical reason why Apple solders the cpus to the board?
Just for saving space, as a socket is huge and adds like 1/8" extra in height.
dosdude1 i see it’s for space saving. Thank you for replying. It’s a travesty you don’t have more subscribers.
God you make that look so easy…I’m sure it’s not but the right equipment is everything huh?
Collin, You ARE THE MAN! I have always enjoyed seeing a Master at work 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
why not just put the other motherboard in?
Amazing patience. Incredible
How did you figure out that the CPU was dead ? Was it shorted ?
amazing job!!!!
OH! Laptops like these don't run at full speed without a battery in place? I didin't know that. Does it run at full speed if there is a battery in place, but the battery is dead?
No, it has to be a working and charged battery for it to run at full speed.
@@dosdude1
Are all Mac/PC laptops designed like that?
Yesterday I was thinking I might save some electricity by removing the dead battery from an iBook G4 which is running off the power supply. I also thought removing it might reduce the heat since the PS isn't trying to charge the battery.
Hey Collin I originally disabled the radeon graphics card on my mbp 15” 2011 and was using the intel 300 one. It stinks. I recently re heated the gpu and applied new heat sink. I want to no revert back to my radeon graphics card but dont know what commands or codes to do to override the backup card. Plz help thanks
Considering that board has discrete GPU, I wonder if it's possible to upgrade to a core i7-820qm instead? OK they do run hotter but the performance of the 2-core g1 socket range of CPUs is so piss-poor it doesn't make sense to upgrade to anything less than one of the compatible quad core chips
Hi Thanks for your excelent video. Could you please give us the temparatures used in the preheater and the air low and temperature of the air pistol to remove and to replace CPU, also wich solder do you use
Thanks in advance