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These are cheap IR stations with small heating elements for something like phones boards. Toys compared to what is needed.
You will need one 10x bigger 10x costlier IR BGA station with programable ramps for repairing a massive multilayer PCB like a CPU tray, even something more decent like an IR6500 that costs ~$1k to be useable suffers for something bigger, like a big modern GPU. See dosdude videos to see what are needed for the small MacBook/MacBook Pro boards.
You probably can get away with an IR12000 to work with a CPU tray if you have lot's of experience and access to an oven to do the initial whole board pre-heat, but even that starts at $1.3k for the base station, without the multiple supports/tools/etc - good stencils are expensive. A Mac Pro backplane needs a massive PCB pre-heater, that will cost you something like $1k for an entry level one of the size needed.
BTW, what is really costly is not the equipment, but the hours of training/experience and all the damage someone learning will do. Re-balling something bigger like a northbridge is a highly specialized craft, not everyone is capable to do it.
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