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[cerealkillajme]

Bottomside D0 is much easier and I don't think it's the least bit hard, but if your getting a solderless I'm guessing your soldering isn't up to par. Just find something to practice on like an old broken electronic and practice soldering a wire to the smallest points on the board, you'll be fine with a lil practice.

[cerealkillajme]

TBH I'd never even soldered anything in my life until my 2nd chip (would've learned on the first one, but my friend is a professional board repair tech, so I let him do that one). I just tore open an old broken DVD player I had and started desoldering components from the mobo for an hour or two, then put them all back on. After about 3 hours of practice I soldered my chip in and found it pretty easy. Best tip I can give is not to go too hot or too cold. 25 watt to 35 watt I think is best, lower and the solder gets sticky and you have to hold the iron on too long to get a good joint, too hot and you risk burning up the board.

I've done alot more soldering since, did a 128 RAM upgrade (which I'll never do again,   ), and even do surface mount LEDs on 360s now (hence my avatar).  

[cerealkillajme]

Yeah, the RAM upgrade was on the XBOX.  http://www.xbox-linu..._Xbox_RAM_HOWTO

Yeah the DouX2 won't come with any wire (unless the re-seller adds it for you). If you need to buy some I'd recommend using 30 AWG wire, which you should only need a small peice for the D0 (unless you have a 1.6 box).

[bammer85]

QUOTE(cerealkillajme @ Dec 13 2006, 08:25 PM)

Yeah, the RAM upgrade was on the XBOX.  http://www.xbox-linu..._Xbox_RAM_HOWTO

Yeah the DouX2 won't come with any wire (unless the re-seller adds it for you). If you need to buy some I'd recommend using 30 AWG wire, which you should only need a small peice for the D0 (unless you have a 1.6 box).

It has to be silver wire too right? I bought my XBOX the first 6 months it was out lol. I have a 1.0 bro.