Ghetto Mods

kenkickr · Feb 25, 2011

Turned one of my 5870's into a single slot:

n-ster · Mar 1, 2011

Talk about making full use of your electricity! This guy is bitcoin mining, but it could be done for F@H too obviously

sturle said:
Another thing: WAF!

I have a liquid cooled miner.* It is dead silent,* but the main point is that it heats our bathroom floor.* Pictures says more than words, so I attached a few.

My computer. An oldish Athlon64 X2 in a cabinet from a previous century.* Sorry about the mess.* The cabinet is usually closed for optimal airflow.* You see the water tube entering at the bottom, water passing through the 5970 water block (the shop were sold out of nipples fitting my tubing, and put in some 1/2" tubing and adapters, so it is a bit messy in there), then through my CPU block before heated water leaves at the top.* The direction has a purpose.* If I start the computer with no pump, the water will flow by itself due to convection.* Convection isn't enough for cooling the 5970 as well, so the pump must be running when mining.* And compare the size of the stock cooler in the lower right corner with the water block.* The card is now half as thick, and the PCI socket next to it is usable again!

Tubes going up through the roof above.* This is not finished.* I'll make better connectors closer to the ceiling and box them in later.* The thing on the tube to the right is a flow indicator.* The cable coming out of the same hole and going to a RJ45 socket (not connected yet), connects a series of temperature sensors embedded in the floor and walls, and a temperature and humidity sensor next to the fan in the bathroom.

Tubes under my bathroom floor and one of the temperature sensors (inside a blue shrink hose).* This is now buried in cement and covered with nice tiles.

Reservoir where the water returns.* Inside there is a small pump (300 l/min, 0.5m head), which keeps the water flow going and bubbles out of the tubes.* Water level inside here is 0-level.* In the tubes above the water level in the reservoir, there is actually a vacuum, and the water pressure inside my computer is low.

The best thing about my water cooling and floor heating is that my wife keeps nagging me to buy a second 5970 to make the floor warmer.* Beat this with a air cooled system.

SOURCE

de.das.dude · Mar 1, 2011

kenkickr said:
Turned one of my 5870's into a single slot:
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn22/kenkickr/DSCN0186.jpg
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn22/kenkickr/DSCN0185-1.jpg

took me a while to find what was ghetto. well done :toast:

BraveSoul · Mar 15, 2011

n-ster said:
Tubes under my bathroom floor and one of the temperature sensors (inside a blue shrink hose).* This is now buried in cement and covered with nice tiles.

awesome mod.......are the tubes plastic?,,they look plastic,,,,i mean copper or other metal would conduct heat much better,,,but u probably thought of that,,,,im curious
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de.das.dude · Mar 15, 2011

BraveSoul said:
awesome mod.......are the tubes plastic?,,they look plastic,,,,i mean copper or other metal would conduct heat much better,,,but u probably thought of that,,,,im curious
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even if they were copper, not very bright as it was anyways going to be buried in the cememt

ste2425 · Mar 15, 2011

n-ster said:
Talk about making full use of your electricity! This guy is bitcoin mining, but it could be done for F@H too obviously

SOURCE

surly that wouldn't generate enough heat to actually warm a floor?

2DividedbyZero · Mar 15, 2011

my ghetto effort, can you spot it.......

de.das.dude · Mar 17, 2011

lol the fan on psu?

pantherx12 · Mar 17, 2011

de.das.dude said:
lol the fan on psu?

I think it could be the "10 p eraser" :laugh:

n-ster · Mar 17, 2011

ste2425 said:
surly that wouldn't generate enough heat to actually warm a floor?

Floors are pretty could, so it would definitively help bring it closer to room temperature, which makes a huge difference... also, the area is pretty small

xBruce88x · Mar 17, 2011

wow i forgot about this thread... heh if this was a car forum i'd have loads of stuff. My most recent ghetto mod is with an xbox360, i'll post it during the day... as my phone has no flash and it sucks when it comes to picking up light.

ste2425 · Mar 17, 2011

xBruce88x said:
i'll post it during the day... as my phone has no flash and it sucks when it comes to picking up light.

quite strange to hear that as its brigh sunny daylight over here, 8:35am to be precise

xBruce88x · Mar 17, 2011

haha i know what you mean... its odd watching live videos from japan and it be only 11am and its like 4am here (actually right now its 4:47am)

ste2425 · Mar 17, 2011

xBruce88x said:
haha i know what you mean... its odd watching live videos from japan and it be only 11am and its like 4am here (actually right now its 4:47am)

4.47? hmm im from the future

bet thats how they got the idea for terminator

Dogshitjoint · Mar 17, 2011

pantherx12 said:
I think it could be the "10 p eraser"

Yeah me too...I am staring @ the pic. :twitch:

zooming in/out & I cant find anything "ghetto" besides the obvious fan & eraser :confused:

//Dog

BraveSoul · Mar 19, 2011

Zalman VF1000 took out the inside fan and attached two 80mm fans with spacers(fan brackets from an old case),,temps around 15c lower on average vs stock cooler

Velvet Wafer · Mar 19, 2011

BraveSoul said:
http://img.techpowerup.org/110318/x_a3f1621f.jpg http://img.techpowerup.org/110318/x_1afcfd36.jpg
Zalman VF1000 took out the inside fan and attached two 80mm fans with spacers(fan brackets from an old case),,temps around 15c lower on average vs stock cooler

if you had sleeved the cables, and attached the cooler by glueing it/cutting a small piece out of the VF-1000 on each side where the clips should attach, it wouldnt even belong in ghetto mods, but in sexy hardware, i guess

Aceman.au · Mar 26, 2011

The PCI bracket on my 5970 is buggered. It will never go all the way in due to the case design. And Ive bored the screw holes in previous attempts to force it in.

SOLUTION?

Those cheap crappy games came in handy!

Chicken Patty · Mar 26, 2011

l33tGaMeR said:
The PCI bracket on my 5970 is buggered. It will never go all the way in due to the case design. And Ive bored the screw holes in previous attempts to force it in.

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/6766/dscf0213k.jpg

SOLUTION?

http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/8915/dscf0214f.jpg

Those cheap crappy games came in handy!

When that has happened to me I just push the back of the case in a bit and it moves enough so that it allows you to start screwing in the screw. Once it's in, that's it.

Aceman.au · Mar 26, 2011

Chicken Patty said:
When that has happened to me I just push the back of the case in a bit and it moves enough so that it allows you to start screwing in the screw. Once it's in, that's it.

Thats my older PC It holds probably 1TB/4.3TB of downloads.

Chicken Patty · Mar 26, 2011

l33tGaMeR said:
Thats my older PC It holds probably 1TB/4.3TB of downloads.

I was talking about the video card issue...

Aceman.au · Mar 26, 2011

Chicken Patty said:
I was talking about the video card issue...

yeah what I meant to say is, since its old I really CBF

xBruce88x · Mar 27, 2011

... i've been too busy working on the cars lately

@l33tGaMeR: have you tried zipties?

Aceman.au · Mar 27, 2011

xBruce88x said:
... i've been too busy working on the cars lately

@l33tGaMeR: have you tried zipties?

Now thats a good idea!

Trigger911 · Mar 27, 2011

zipties = gifts from god :pimp:

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Ghetto Mods

kenkickr

n-ster

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

BraveSoul

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

ste2425

2DividedbyZero

New Member

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

pantherx12

n-ster

xBruce88x

ste2425

xBruce88x

ste2425

Dogshitjoint

BraveSoul

Velvet Wafer

Aceman.au

Chicken Patty

Aceman.au

Chicken Patty

Aceman.au

xBruce88x

Aceman.au

Trigger911

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