Hobbyist turns $120 DDR5 SODIMM kit into '$1000' desktop RAM for the memory crisis
Beneficial-Ad-8127 · reddit · 2026-10-29
A reported project shows an electronics hobbyist salvaging ICs from $120 SK hynix DDR5-5600 16GB SODIMM modules and re-soldering them onto desktop PCBs to build DDR5-7800 desktop sticks — a workaround amid the RAM price crisis, effectively turning laptop memory into a '$1000' desktop kit.
The poster asks whether this is a viable low-cost path to more memory for local LLMs, how much harder the soldering is in practice than the article suggests, and whether anyone has done something similar with stable results.
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