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    Discussion PSA: Be very, very careful if you decide to delid the GPU of a 6-layer board...

    Even with the use of soft materials like cotton swabs, microfibre cloths, isopropanol prep pads, and even dedicated glasses/lens cleaning wipes, I still managed to heavily scratch up the surfaces of the GPU dies... Weirdly enough I never was able to scratch the surface of the 4-layer GPU die...
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    Discussion Delidded the Wii CPU and GPU

    Was interested in getting a shot of the silicon underneath the heat spreaders, and potentially improving thermals, so I took a razor blade, an old credit card, and a huge leap of faith, and was able to pop both of them off and get a nice gander at the silicon. Admitted there is a bit of...
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    Question First time trimming, have both a CPU-01 and CPU-40 revision Wiis

    Heya, quarantine got me bored asf and I grew up on the Wii/GC both so I'm interested in making a portable. Blame my utter daftness and idiocy for overlooking the warning not to use a SanDisk USB drive. Well, I was able to use it to install BBLoader, however it got stuck on "exitting" after...
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