We take you through Gigabyte's production facility for a sneak peak of what goes on inside one of the world's leading motherboard and graphics card companies.
Correct me if I'm wrong but surface mount parts (SMT) come from tape and reel and are soldered in a reflow oven not a wave solder machine b/c they aren't through-hole parts. Also I believe flux is sprayed on the leads of the through-hole parts that need to be soldered in wave for a better solder joint, not the other way around.
Ok sorry for 3 (almost) consecutive posts, but for picture 20:
"With speed and skill, Sherri covertly moves in to bag a few motherboards and graphics cards."
Are you guys serious? T_T
You have to wonder if they're going to rename the company when host memory is measured in TB rather than GB. Sort of like a company being called Kilobyte back in the 60s. Sounds to quaint now.
[citation][nom]computabug[/nom]Ok sorry for 3 (almost) consecutive posts, but for picture 20:"With speed and skill, Sherri covertly moves in to bag a few motherboards and graphics cards."Are you guys serious? T_T[/citation]
[citation][nom]the last resort[/nom]The video card in picture #14 is the 9800GT 1GB edition.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814125282[/citation]
Hehe, that was meant as a joke. We don't need to do that. We just call Gigabyte and ask.
I worked for quite a while as a Test Engineer and the two pics of their functional test fixture makes me weep. Most engineers would be fired if they tried to release that to MFG.
Why are they one of the most popular choices? Both of my GA-EP45-UD3R's work very well. They have a lot of good features and are priced very nicely. That's why.
BTW, what is a "surgical precession"? Is that some kind of parade?
[citation][nom]stuckintexas[/nom]I worked for quite a while as a Test Engineer and the two pics of their functional test fixture makes me weep. Most engineers would be fired if they tried to release that to MFG.[/citation]
I doubt that that was a production test fixture. Would take much too long and risk damage to the product.
[citation][nom]Article[/nom]The motherboard is covered with something called flux, which seals the PCB from the liquid solder. The liquid solder immediately adheres to areas of the board where flux isn't applied[/citation]
Might want to do some more research about what flux exactly does, because thats comletely wrong.
[citation][nom]bk420[/nom]Man why can't this be made in the USA?beats flipping burgers![/citation]
Because americans are known to be lazy, careless and exploitive of their workplace resources? Just a thought... Not all of them, but as a group, that's what americans are known to be good at...