Hobbyist Converts $120 DDR5 SODIMM Kit Into Desktop Sticks

A post describes an electronics hobbyist converting a $120 SK hynix DDR5-5600 16GB SODIMM kit into DDR5-7800 desktop DIMMs, far below roughly $1,000 retail kits, to cope with the RAM crunch. The poster asks whether this is a viable low-cost upgrade for LLM hardware, how hard the soldering is, and whether results are stable.

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