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Can you customize, modify or change parts of a motherboard?

It is possibly the most important component of a PC, the one that connects everything, the most complex in terms of total design and one of the most expensive. But while motherboards are an example of engineering that hits all sorts of sticks, it really is one of the least user-customisable. But can it be customized, modified or change parts of a motherboard to our liking? Why is there so little margin with them?

Even processors can be customized by changing their IHS For a better one, even graphics cards can see their cooling system changed, but why doesn’t any company invest in products to change or improve motherboards? The question would not really be that, but is it really possible?

Modify or customize a motherboard

Motherboard manufacturers have a very well set up business, very well structured and, above all, with well-defined benefits on what they expect and what they really get for sale. The same can be said of processors and graphics cards, same argument same reflection, the difference is in the number of products attached to these that exist for each other.

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The motherboards today do not have accessories or parts that can be installed as was the case in the past and this is something important to emphasize. More than a decade ago there were heatsinks for chipsets, even by water, there were attached heatsinks for VRMheatsinks for RAM memory slots and today that is so strange that there are more accessories or accessories for other components such as SSDs or memories than for motherboards.

Therefore, customizing them is something really complex due to all that has been said and modifying them is even more difficult because there is really no market, and having said that, can we change parts of them?

The dilemma of changing certain things on motherboards

If the above was already complicated, changing key parts of motherboards is relegated to a very specific sector such as electronics. It’s not that a motherboard can’t be improved by changing certain components, it’s that it’s difficult because of the solders they integrate, it’s complex because of the circuitry they include and also the chips, resistors, SMD or voltage drivers (to name a few) are very top in the industry.

Of the little that can be changed are the retention systems to install socket fixers, thermal pads that improve heat transfer in VRM and SSD, but nothing more. The rest are irreplaceable because there is no brand that is willing to invest in R&D to change key parts such as cooling systems, connectors or slots.

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In the first case, there are already brands that make liquid cooling blocks and even LN2, in the second the plates already integrate the best on the market in high-end models and in the last one, the slots, the level of welding that is required is more typical of a “reballing” in them than of taking a soldering iron or soldering station and improving what is present.

This is only done in the event of failure and is usually done by the technical service that has the spare parts and has precise welding machines for each component. The technicians who embark on this odyssey do not have it easy, because the number of hours is high, the precision must be perfect and the risk of damaging a track is high. In short, it is not impossible to change a part, but it is a problem to do so.

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