[the_cat_kittles]

fixing stuff will teach you everything! i didnt even mean to learn so much about so many topics, but knowing that i could fix it just kinda made it happen. and its mostly fun, when its not incredibly rage inducing lol

[imtringued]

I have to get this out of my system. No, your YLOD on your PS3 is most likely not caused by the tokins capacitors, it is the solder bumps on your RSX GPU silicon die. You can't fix those cost effectively, just get a replacement RSX.

Also, reballing the BGA solder balls doesn't fix the solder bumps inside the RSX.

Screw you NVIDIA!

[donkeyofd00m]

Absolutely. It's like viewing the source code of a launched CS product and become familiar all the python libraries they used

You start to hit the next threshold when you start to become a mad-max salvager. Fan motor controller is broken but the motor is fine? Salvage the motor, chuck the rest!