asrock rack D1521 CPU upgrade to D1587 

Holy crap you must be incredibly patient to place all those solder balls by hand

Manually putting the balls on the pads... that many. Only that deserves a like!

You and your balls Tony..... You seriously went on and bloody reballed a whole CPU manually......

It's a sever board in mini-itx format, these are usually used for network or storage "edge" appliances with low power requirements, they by default display to vga and you may need to change that in bios or even using jumper as the display is controlled by BMC (Aspeed) chip it also has support for IPMI remote management with dedicated lan. also these may have very specific requirements to memory used, it's possible that they may accept only registered ecc DIMMs (memory usually used for server but not desktop/laptop pc).

Jeez thats a BIG upgrade. You upgraded that little board from 4 cores/8 threads to 16 cores/32 threads. No wonder they wanted the upgrade. BTW this chip was made in 2016. Big chip in a small package.

So was this just to show off that you can re-ball without a stencil? You have done a lot of impressive things in your videos but this is what has impressed me the most.

I went crazy just watching you put down those solder balls, let alone doing it myself

I hope this customer appreciates you.

The music!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The content!❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥 The skill of this man

1667 balls to put in place by hand! I'll tip my Hat for you Good Sir! EPIC! Also nice cpu upgrade from 4c to 16c!

yes, that guy, he did it with his stencil(or no at all)... and sheer f*kin will. another surgeon job from this man, big thumbs up.

From 4c/8t to 16c/32t. Big upgrade.

The amount of work Tony puts into his repairs is amazing. Manually reballing a cpu must have taken so much time.

The second card with the interface at the bottom is a management card for hp servers. It acts as a low powered computer to monitor the server even when the server is turned off or broken. The interface is extremely proprietary. As for the 1st board that looks like mini-itx, I would suspect an embedded motherboard for things like running robots in a factory.

Manually placing all those soldier balls spiked my anxiety on your behalf cripes sake

Seriously?! Manual reballing without stencil!!! You are a god! 😚😘

Man, the reballing effort was crazy!! I thought this kind of thing wasn't even possible!!

Nice, can't believe you did all that by hand, would like to see more of these

Respect!! Putting all those solder balls manually just makes my jaw drop.

OMG, you are a stunning hero, my friend, placing all those balls by hand.........wow..... But why did the customer want this unit for? Great work indeed....

Never, would I have thought I'd see the day where a content creator, whom I've never met, would lie to me directly *5 TIMES!* Kudos for placing each individual solder ball! That would have me running for the hills

These are server motherboards. The ASRock one is ITX form factor. The other is some proprietary high density server form factor. So the owner probably wants the extra performance, and found the proprietary server board laying around. These Xeon D CPU are great for NAS or router use. They consume less power than Xeon E5 from the same age. And they support registered DDR4 ECC RAM. The ASRock Rack board and another Supermicro board are the only boards that support registered RAM at the size of ITX. If you want a miniature server and ECC is a must, Xeon D is great, but they are expensive compared to the performance, so I wouldn't recommend it if a bigger size is acceptable.

Крутя доска, которую я когда-то очень хотел для домашнего сервера. Моё уважение за такое терпение.

You are a true talent, 1 in a billion kind of person, my hats off to you my friend. I wish there was an olympic event for this so you could show the world your skills, and rack up gold medals

Endurance contest reballing and you won. I like those tester from memory and pcie slot also. Great job brother and thanks for the video

9:22 It is perfectly normal for these types of boards to take their time POSTing, due to its increased complexity for server functions and the need to verify all the different bits and pieces are indeed doing what they need to. SuperMicro boards of this type also take forever to POST.

You are turning into the BGA Master Baller, this is awesome! Soon maybe laptop BGA CPU upgrades and then maybe some Xbox 360s.

Great video, most repairers would just think like I do and say "Stuff doing that"

Thanks for upgrading my abandonware server! No problem, that will be $13 in material and $1299 labor please!

“How patient and focused are you?” “I put solder balls on a integrated CPU without any stencils” truly the solder balls of all time

You could have a try in a championship of putting balls on the core! With closed eyes! Awesome job! Thanks!

The Asrock Rack motherboard is their small form factor server solution. Now n days they’ve turned that lineup into server feature rich boards that can take consumer CPU’s. The second board is an enterprise expansion board. Kind of reminds me of their workstation expansion boards.

You basically tripled the performance of that system. Very fine work!

Godly skills and patience

This looks like a fairly standard industrial/server ITX board from the server division of Asrock, and the donor was some random proprietary module from HPE, a big server vendor.

Smash that like button, this guy manually places the balls, many even do not have the balls to intent.

Awesome always willing to learn something from you

Read my mind... Cool to see a video on this product line.

wow..Hands of steel!

Great content as always Tony. Just a suggestion - it would be awesome if you also add the tracks names on the description or something (nevernind, I just saw where and when the song names goes 😀). Keep up the great work man!

Wow you handle those balls quite well...

Manually reball a core? Now you're just showing off.

This client mast be a great friend of yours. Otherwise I don't know what sum of money would make you do all these solder balls placing.

Either doing all those balls by hand was like a relaxing meditation or a test of patience.

Oh my gosh. He's a MADMAN!!

ipmi is really slow to start on asrock board. ca take up to 60 sec before you can see post screen. Good job !

That second board is one of those pcie add-in pcs. You put it in your pcie slot and you have two pcs in one. Its good for offloading some other tasks so you dont use resources on your regular desktop. I think.

OMG You place all those balls by 'hand' All kudos for you!

Holy crap, I was already thinking "surely this customer has more money than sense, but anyway it's a good video" and then you cut to you placing the solder balls by hand and definitely confirmed that he should've bought a new board and sold that one used on eBay. Because this is something you either try and do it yourself for shits and giggles or it's not financially worth it.

PCI-E is there as soon as any additional card, for example SAS-controller, server boards primarily use an integrated graphics card, if you want to use an additional one, it must be set in the bios. If you want to try the board after replacing the CPU, here is the list of supported memory Supported DIMM Quantity - 4 x DDR4 DIMM slots - Supports up to 128GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM - Supports up to 64GB DDR4 ECC/non-ECC UDIMM Supported Type - Dual Channel DDR4 memory technology - Supports DDR4 ECC/non-ECC UDIMM, and ECC RDIMM Max. Capacity per DIMM - Non-ECC UDIMM: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB - ECC UDIMM: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB - RDIMM: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB Max. DIMM Frequency - Non-ECC UDIMM : 1600, 1866, 2133MHz, 2400MHz - ECC UDIMM: 1600, 1866, 2133MHz, 2400MHz - RDIMM: 1600, 1866, 2133MHz, 2400MHz Voltage - 1.2V

2:17 holy fk... My eyes literally opened wide.

If I don't have a stencil, my lazy ass is saying "nah" to all that. Re-balling by hand is a chad as fuck move. Liked, commented and subscribed.

Amazing work, this cpu are amazing

All "smaller than-ATX" boards look cute to me, but that Assrock Mini-ITX is especially adorable.. :) Anybody know what exactly that donor-board/card is? Almost looks like an expansion-card with a CPU on it. Getting faint Pentium II-vibes here.. :D

0:45 The proprietary board looks like a blade-like card for some high density cluster server solution (most probably HP HA or something like that). These are ACPI enumerable and manageable, so the host OS threats them as hot pluggable CPU and memory (yes, those ACPI functions aren't meant VM-only). Them are an easy way to add CPU and memory nodes in datacenters without the need of power off the whole node host.

Amazing work as always!

10:34 "Me just being bored, hahaha" yes I would go with this one! 😂

Excellent work !!!

patience level to the max on that solder balls manually 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Holy space balls, that's a lot of ballz!

Oh God, those old ram slots where the notch was only offset from the center slightly give me nightmares. The very first PC I ever built I somehow managed to shove the ram in backwards and fried the thing.

Long posting times is usually related to ME firmware, a clean bios would possibly solve the issue or msnually cleaning the ME region.

He still doing the solder balls till new year countdown happens 😅😅😅😅

those solder balls... f-k me, bro thats some steady hands and patience, Well done.

that one was tons of work , i wish there was a 3d print thingy for this type of things .

Great place for repairs!!❤

If Chuck Norris would reball a CPU he would do it like you did!

Holy hell! How long did it take you to do that reball? That was amazing!

Better than factor 👌

thats is sum good work they be a bad time to sneeze just as you put the last solder ball LOL :D

Asrock RACK are server boards, the other Board is a custom server boards from HP.

3D printer sound in the background :) .

Amazing work!

I think that im going to like this video

the masculine urge to manually reball my laptop cpu

bro ur the best love the music repair vids

Insanity!!! Nice 👍

these board with accrual good CPUs are insanely expensive, i guess he got a cheap one on ebay, and wants you to put it on the better board starting to long? thats server boards for you haha :D but these kinds of boards are usually used in network equipment, like switches/router/firewalls

You see in the BIOS the CPU Speed is just 800 MHz, that tells me its not working correctly, that should read 1.70 Ghz,. And generally speaking AS Rack shit (of which i have thousands of the as there intended for the datacenter) wont accept an upgrade yes you've done it, good luck flashing the bios on it to make the chip work, that's coming back to you to be undone and orional CPU installed.

отличная шутка с поиском тестера подключения память. жаль не было ещё rim и sdram

So many patience

VRM is going to be begging for mercy trying to feed an extra 37% power to the new cpu.

16 core CPU from 2016, cool

My thoughts: “How is he going to reball that?” and “oh, no!”. I wound probably spent a half day designing a die and then waiting a week for someone to laser cut and ship just to make it “easier” on me :). Also I know nothing and have no experience other than watching videos on this channel.

insanity makes you do insane things. One by one placing solder balls. Are you a serial killer?

An itx embedded board for a mini nas, most likely 4 bay with the single mini-sas port

Good eye McFly

Just by curiosity, what was 3D printed in the background?

You can detect DDR4/5 easyly if the Gold Pins are curfed, DDR 3 has a normal pitch comapred to ddr2 :)

What is the name of the hot air station that you used?

😂😂 when CIA tries your skills up😂😂😂

Where did you purchase those CPU contact/socket testers?

Interesting 😮

asrock rack is the embedded/industrial branch of asrock.

Nice 8bit music pal

Rack is their server stuff if I recall correctly

Intel Embeded server line. All Atom cores. You suppose to use IPMI. (The network port with MGMT label and IP address)

The CPU reporting 800MHz makes me think the BIOS isn't happy about the swap but is playing along the best it can. Probably won't be able to get full CPU speed out of it until/unless the BIOS is hacked.

Hi, what capture card are you using?

I am surprised that this cpu has capacitors/resistors at the back. Is this why you did not use any stencil? Those capacitors must be tiny, smaller than the solder balls 😮