I have done iron soldering each pin for memory upgrades before. But, this presentation is the cleanest I have seen. Thank you for the show-and-tell video. Makes the job time cut in half.
I did a ton of these upgrades back in 2002ish time frame on the old XS forum. One thing that always helped me with alignment is to use an xacto between pins of the memory chip to where it will sit on the PCB solder mask in the divot between the solder pads
Just ordered some ram from ya brotha, I appreciate the vids and the lack of fuckery and bullshit. I’m a nooby on working on electronics so this is help in me a lot. Burnt the shit out of myself Several times yesterday replacing 9 of my caps on my board but I think I did a good enough job. I’ll find out tomorrow when my psu comes in! Thanks again man
Did it the same way. Gives the cleanest results. You might want to remove the the gpu cooler clip as the tension and heat might deform the black “retention” frame. Happened to me.
Me too, Skies very nearly ended up on the OG Xbox as it was a Dreamcast heavyweight title and very easy to have ported over but Ninty got in there for the Gamecube and I will say SoA is my absolute favourite game of all time :D
Well now that I've dug out my OG Xbox I'm going to have to finally spend the money on a hot air station so I can add this to the list for when I recap it, repaste the CPU and GPU, swap in a Nexus fan, and install a Project Stellar chip, HDMI output & SSD... *cue Mr Crabs voice *"MONEY!"*
Good stuff, doing a couple ram mods soon, Have you ever had an xbox flash orange after soldering in the LPC pins, got a 1.3 that will not boot and just flash orange, triple checked everything
Im not too familiar with xbox360 dev cycle but my best guess is that they had plans for a "pro" model that had more ram. Ofc ram amounts sky rocketed quickly back then and ps3 had evenless dedicated ram so they never had to populate those in that design to compete. The fact it actually takes the new ram and they are not dummy slots is fun bonus for tinkering in 2022 :D
The Dev Consoles used 128mb or ram and the mobos were exactly the same from what I've gathered. For the retail units, they just left those extra ram footprints unpopulated. Games don't take advantage of the extra ram, you will get better performance in some homebrew, emulators and a smoother experience in front ends like xbmc4gamers.
Well done dude! I have wondered for a while if you could use hot air to install the extra RAM. I figured you could but have never seen anyone talk about it or do it. This seems a lot more efficient for time. I’m going to give this a try when I get some flux. What temperature do you set your hot-air station to for this?
Ram is always useful if you use a front end like XBMC4gamers. As for the CPU, if you get that done then you'll want to upgrade your ram as well. Upgraded CPU is only really useful for Emulation / 720p video playback ect. The cpu upgrade breaks a ton of games (Like the GTAs) so you wouldn't want it as your main Xbox.
I have done iron soldering each pin for memory upgrades before. But, this presentation is the cleanest I have seen. Thank you for the show-and-tell video. Makes the job time cut in half.
I did a ton of these upgrades back in 2002ish time frame on the old XS forum. One thing that always helped me with alignment is to use an xacto between pins of the memory chip to where it will sit on the PCB solder mask in the divot between the solder pads
Just ordered some ram from ya brotha, I appreciate the vids and the lack of fuckery and bullshit. I’m a nooby on working on electronics so this is help in me a lot. Burnt the shit out of myself
Several times yesterday replacing 9 of my caps on my board but I think I did a good enough job. I’ll find out tomorrow when my psu comes in! Thanks again man
Surface Tension is what you were trying to think of. Thanks for the video, great channel
Did it the same way. Gives the cleanest results. You might want to remove the the gpu cooler clip as the tension and heat might deform the black “retention” frame. Happened to me.
What you would recomend?
As a replacment?
Kapton tape layered over the clip avoids that
I mean, I think the Skies of Arcadia battle music might have been the best part of this video. Awesome tips man, thanks!
Me too, Skies very nearly ended up on the OG Xbox as it was a Dreamcast heavyweight title and very easy to have ported over but Ninty got in there for the Gamecube and I will say SoA is my absolute favourite game of all time :D
Skies of Arcadia music.
_Excellent_ choice.
Skies of Arcadia soundtracks and soldering go well together
Looks epic AF!
Lovely stuff
Well now that I've dug out my OG Xbox I'm going to have to finally spend the money on a hot air station so I can add this to the list for when I recap it, repaste the CPU and GPU, swap in a Nexus fan, and install a Project Stellar chip, HDMI output & SSD...
*cue Mr Crabs voice
*"MONEY!"*
Good stuff, doing a couple ram mods soon, Have you ever had an xbox flash orange after soldering in the LPC pins, got a 1.3 that will not boot and just flash orange, triple checked everything
So are you gonna try your hand at a Frankie ps3? That ylod video really has me wanting to fire up my old IR rework station and Give it a go
This is the method that i always use
haha yeah ive also had capacitors explode on me too! its scary. Whole room smelled like popcorn
Might have missed it, but what temp are you running the hot air station?
330c max airflow
Imagine being able to do similar on a modern system like a PS4/5 Series X/S 🤯
Gold
So I’m attempting this mod but unfortunately after the ram install my system won’t power on… could you give me some help please??
Why did they not populate those slots? Cost saving? Does it really perform much better with more memory? Nice job btw :)
Im not too familiar with xbox360 dev cycle but my best guess is that they had plans for a "pro" model that had more ram. Ofc ram amounts sky rocketed quickly back then and ps3 had evenless dedicated ram so they never had to populate those in that design to compete. The fact it actually takes the new ram and they are not dummy slots is fun bonus for tinkering in 2022 :D
The Dev Consoles used 128mb or ram and the mobos were exactly the same from what I've gathered. For the retail units, they just left those extra ram footprints unpopulated.
Games don't take advantage of the extra ram, you will get better performance in some homebrew, emulators and a smoother experience in front ends like xbmc4gamers.
@@AntonLoukothis isnt an xbox360.. its an og xbox
A bit too much heat but better sage than sorry.
Well done dude! I have wondered for a while if you could use hot air to install the extra RAM. I figured you could but have never seen anyone talk about it or do it. This seems a lot more efficient for time. I’m going to give this a try when I get some flux. What temperature do you set your hot-air station to for this?
I think he did mention 330 degrees.
@@DanoG_74 You’re right. He did at 5:04. Thanks! I just didn’t catch it before.
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Do you know what resistor R7P4 is I lost it when rebuilding my lpc
where i find the bios xblast to use with my openxenium?
Is it possible with only soft modding?
This is additional hardware so it's as possible as downloading more ram.
@@ModzvilleUSA what performance enhancements can I make with a softmodded Xbox?
What's better a RAM or CPU upgrade?
Ram is always useful if you use a front end like XBMC4gamers.
As for the CPU, if you get that done then you'll want to upgrade your ram as well. Upgraded CPU is only really useful for Emulation / 720p video playback ect. The cpu upgrade breaks a ton of games (Like the GTAs) so you wouldn't want it as your main Xbox.
Any benefit to a RAM upgrade in games?
@@MichaelM28 Games are designed for the expected amount of RAM. Think emulators.