Re: How do I build a graphics card?
2014/03/16 19:39:51
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Blizzie
XrayMan There's no way you can build it yourself. You need machinery to make some of that stuff. The circuit board, etc.
Technically you can (although a simple one) if you have the engineering knowledge and patience too. The design can be laid out and sent to a PCB manufacturer to have it fabribated. All the components and SMTs can be soldered by hand without the need of large machines. But having anything work for present day real world performance is out of the question without a full team.
what he said, as long as you are not designing the core, one you get the pinout and full white sheet with complete specs you just have to design the circuitry to connect all the ic's together and provide really smooth power at the rates specified. Tho to fit all these thing onto a PCB the size of a retail card you are looking at 7 layer PCB design at least, you have to make certain all those circuits line up perfectly which will likely take multiple eyes looking over the cad designs multiple times to even have a hope lf getting it right the first time. If you choose to go this route you better plan on being good at writing bios and driver software cause the cards running the same core will have much different request addresses than yours. Plus good luck buying only a few gk110 from NVIDIA or anyone for that matter. I suggest you choose a different project that you can get core parts more easily. Things like these can be done but not without butchering a working card for parts otherwise unavailable.
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