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by snvzz 23 days ago
>soldered it into a socket

You... what?

Why would you ever solder a chip into a socket, rather than just insert?

(they clipped the original chip, instead of desoldering it. The socket is then inserted into another socket on the board. Workable trick but... why, just why.)

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