• Where to purchase Xbox ram.
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Does anybody have a clue on where you can purchase RAM for the [B]Xbox original.[/B] [quote=doonbugie2;1] The earlier model Xbox 1.0-1.4 have 4 unused areas to solder on 64mb of ram. If some of you did your research you might not have rated me dumb. Why else would I be asking for individual ram chips. [/quote]
You have to get it soldered on you realize?
[QUOTE=wingless;27116581]You have to get it soldered on you realize?[/QUOTE] Yes? The earlier model Xbox 1.0-1.4 have 4 unused areas to solder on 64mb of ram. If some of you did your research you might not have rated me dumb. Why else would I be asking for individual ram chips.
Only thing I could possibly suggest is to buy another Xbox and attempt to take the ram out of it.
You could always search for the chips my the numbers on them, and order them.
Just wondering, and feel free to rate me dumb for this, but what benefit would the extra ram have except for things like fairly small load speed increases?
[QUOTE=trent_roolz;27116703]Just wondering, and feel free to rate me dumb for this, but what benefit would the extra ram have except for things like fairly small load speed increases?[/QUOTE] If you're running a server from it or using as a media center it's a good speed boost.
[QUOTE=trent_roolz;27116703]Just wondering, and feel free to rate me dumb for this, but what benefit would the extra ram have except for things like fairly small load speed increases?[/QUOTE] Eeeh, that increase could really help. Ever play Elders Scrolls Morrowind on Xbox? Takes for ever to load your character. At least did for me.
[QUOTE=trent_roolz;27116703]Just wondering, and feel free to rate me dumb for this, but what benefit would the extra ram have except for things like fairly small load speed increases?[/QUOTE] Some emulators can't run or don't run very well. And the idiots rating OP dumb don't realize it's actually possible to upgrade the XBox's RAM.
Oh, okay. Good luck I guess OP, try not to fuck up the extra ram slots.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi3Bi2i2bEg[/media] Here you go, dumb-raters.
[QUOTE=wingless;27116715]If you're running a server from it or using as a media center it's a good speed boost.[/QUOTE] This is why, I intend to do memory consuming tasks.
I have an old xbox, how would i take the ram out of it. I might ship it to you [editline]1st January 2011[/editline] the xbox is broken btw
[QUOTE=Shadaez;27116763] [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/"]View YouTUBE video[/URL] [URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vi3Bi2i2bEg[/URL] Here you go, dumb-raters.[/QUOTE] Crap, forget my idea. That stuff looks like it would be a bitch to remove and put back into another system. I had never saw Xbox ram before and assumed it was like your standard sticks of computer ram.
K4D263238F-QC50000 is a model number of some ram
you can get another xbox and take the RAM out of that, but it would probably need some extreme soldering skills
I got a razer tip for my soldering iron, i dont think i would be too hard. Also op do you have flux?
[QUOTE=Tobba;27116902]you can get another xbox and take the RAM out of that, but it would probably need some extreme soldering skills[/QUOTE] That would be cheaper aswell, but harder and more time consuming. You get get Xbox's for under $20 per unit where I live.
On the subject of this: [QUOTE=w00tman64;27116730]Eeeh, that increase could really help. Ever play Elders Scrolls Morrowind on Xbox? Takes for ever to load your character. At least did for me.[/QUOTE] When Microsoft was making the original Xbox, they contacted Samsung and just bought the cheapest RAM they had in stock, even if it was faulty. So when the Xbox booted up, it would run a memory test at the highest specified clock speed, and if it would fail, it would underclock and try again. This would keep happening until a stable clockspeed was found. Now, if you bought an unit with shitty, faulty RAM, some power-hungry games would have much lower performance than on an unit with properly working RAM that would run at max clock speed.
[img]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3145/picture003eyu.jpg[/img] And two more under the motherboard. Shit is going to take awhile.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;27117601][img_thumb]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3145/picture003eyu.jpg[/img_thumb] And two more under the motherboard. Shit is going to take awhile.[/QUOTE] That poor nVidia chip :smith:
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;27117601][img_thumb]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3145/picture003eyu.jpg[/img_thumb] And two more under the motherboard. Shit is going to take awhile.[/QUOTE] Those connectors are so TINY :byodood:
They're soldered directly onto the board, I think that's the point.
[QUOTE=nikomo;27118944]They're soldered directly onto the board, I think that's the point.[/QUOTE] Doesn't make it any less hard to desolder.
Desoldering is the easy part, you heat it up with a heat gun (slowly and with least amount heat possible, don't want to cause damage to the motherboard or other components) and then suck up the solder. Sure, you'll have to run multiple passes to get all of it off, but I've heard that you can learn it pretty fast and get good results. Not to forget, he doesn't have to desolder anything.
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[QUOTE=doonbugie2;27117601][img_thumb]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3145/picture003eyu.jpg[/img_thumb] And two more under the motherboard. Shit is going to take awhile.[/QUOTE] What's the nVidia chip saying? I would like to look it up.
I don't know what's it saying, but the nForce chipset in the Xbox is closely related to the AMD-760 chipset. The GPU is apparently a GeForce 3 MX. 150nm, 64mb shared memory, 233MHz Core clock, 400MHz memory clock, 6.4GB/s bandwidth, 128-bit BUS, DirectX 8.1, the chip is capable of doing OpenGL 1.4, but naturally Microsoft removed OS-level support for it. Sources: [url]http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#Comparison_table:_miscellaneous[/url]
[QUOTE=nikomo;27121096]Microsoft removed OS-level support for it.[/QUOTE] :eng99:
Dude, just download some [url]http://www.downloadmoreram.com/[/url] You don't have to go to all that trouble... You can download like 4 gigs of ram for it here!
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