Ghetto Mods

RikuKawai · Mar 11, 2015

Let's get some pictures of my external antenna mod in here.

At first glance, it almost looks legit.

But then you look closer, is that a Lego piece? White glue?

I couldn't find the glue gun, ok?

RikuKawai · Mar 11, 2015

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
I have one somewhere... not joking.

I have a Pentium II machine, and a 7.2 pound 50MHz 486 DX2 laptop, with a whopping 32MB of RAM, and a 300MB HDD!
It was $10, which is a dramatic fall from the $1500 it cost in 1993, not even accounting for inflation.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Mar 11, 2015

I am starting to like you....show me more ....

RikuKawai · Mar 11, 2015

I once mounted a Baby AT mobo in a MicroATX case. It was held together by ONE screw, and the PCI cards.
Coincidently it was the same mobo that has that PII on it.

I took it apart though, and I don't have any pictures.
I made the whole thing as a joke, because I put it in a circa 2012 HP pavillion case, to prove that appearances aren't everything. I also had the machine from my first post in a circa 2006 cream case for the opposite effect.
It's funny because it's a Phenom II X6 1055T with 8GB of DDR2.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Mar 11, 2015

My next project is likely to be a pc that looks like a V - Twin motorbike engine....it has the potential to look really really rubbish......watch this space. :eek:

i might mount the monitor on some bars, key to start...

oh yeah could be cool or very shit....it;ll be fun thats what it is all about it will certainly take some serious modding.

RikuKawai · Mar 11, 2015

This PII board is very real

Dual VGA cards?!?! That's so next-gen!
You may note my Baby-AT board is ACPI/ATX compatible.

RikuKawai · Mar 12, 2015

But can it play Crysis?

I don't know, it's hard to install any OS when it can't boot from USB, or a CD, or anything other than floppy really.
I lost my Plop Boot floppy too, if I had it I could boot CDs.

Stay tuned for Ubuntu running on a Pentium II 350MHz.

xvi · Mar 14, 2015

My work has a good number of P3 servers in production.... doing mission critical work. Don't need much to forward DNS requests, so why fix what isn't broken?

Also, I have found the holy grail of ghetto mods:

wagana · Mar 14, 2015

xvi said:
My work has a good number of P3 servers in production.... doing mission critical work. Don't need much to forward DNS requests, so why fix what isn't broken?

Also, I have found the holy grail of ghetto mods:

Personally I prefer bean cans

RikuKawai · Mar 14, 2015

@DEcobra11 how can you possibly have 0ms ping? Is your neighbour hosting a speedtest server?

That's how they get you anyway, good download speed, but stupidly slow upload in comparison.

SirKeldon · Mar 14, 2015

videogame57 said:
@DEcobra11 how can you possibly have 0ms ping? Is your neighbour hosting a speedtest server?

That's how they get you anyway, good download speed, but stupidly slow upload in comparison.

Welcome to Spain and its marvelous broadband upload rates

A test from now

... usually a 10% of the download speed in all packs (being ADSL or Optical Fiber as mine is) ... they don't like P2P so they restrain upload as max as possible, true story.

RikuKawai · Mar 14, 2015

My speed right now:

No clue why my ISP is showing as Sympatico, they renamed to Bell Canada years ago.

RikuKawai · Mar 14, 2015

How can people possibly have such low latency with external servers?
My average latency with my home router is 4ms.

Octopuss · Mar 14, 2015

videogame57 said:
How can people possibly have such low latency with external servers?
My average latency with my home router is 4ms.

What kind of router is that?

I have aging WRT320N and 1ms (it shows as 0 as well depending on software used) is perfectly normal. Heck I have 3ms latency to the AP I connect to (yes I am on wifi).

RikuKawai · Mar 14, 2015

Octopuss said:
What kind of router is that? I have aging WRT320N and 1ms (it shows as 0 as well depending on software used) is perfectly normal. Heck I have 3ms latency to the AP I connect to (yes I am on wifi).

4ms is the average ping between my laptop and my cheap ISP router over Wi-Fi.
Even between two machines physically next to each other on the same switch, 0ms ping is impossible.

My signal path looks like this: Laptop -about 6m through a wall-> Wi-Fi Router -about 12m of ethernet-> gigabit switch -2m of cable-> router

wagana · Mar 14, 2015

videogame57 said:
@DEcobra11 how can you possibly have 0ms ping? Is your neighbour hosting a speedtest server?

That's how they get you anyway, good download speed, but stupidly slow upload in comparison.

Speedtest automatically chose some ISP's server... so I'll guess that server is here
Also you've meet the stupid 10/1 ratio

Octopuss · Mar 14, 2015

videogame57 said:
My signal path looks like this: Laptop -about 6m through a wall-> Wi-Fi Router

Well there's your problem. Never EVER connect to a router through wifi even if it means having a cable lying on the floor which you'd constantly trip over.

RikuKawai · Mar 14, 2015

Octopuss said:
Well there's your problem. Never EVER connect to a router through wifi even if it means having a cable lying on the floor which you'd constantly trip over.

4ms is not a big enough deal that I'd rather run a cable and constantly drop connection when I move from place to place.
There's cable running everywhere though, the only room that doesn't have gigabit ethernet is the bathroom lol.
The problem is more that I like to stay connected and not have to restart all my SSH sessions.

I have a good wireless card, the only time I'd rather be wired is if I need to copy something really quickly (but it's only a small improvement when the bottleneck is my HDD).

R-T-B · Mar 15, 2015

I regularly get <1MS pings internally on the same gigabit switch.

JunkBear · Mar 19, 2015

videogame57 said:
My speed right now:

No clue why my ISP is showing as Sympatico, they renamed to Bell Canada years ago.

What part of Canada you come from...what city?

RikuKawai · Mar 19, 2015

JunkBear said:
What part of Canada you come from...what city?

Toronto, ON

RikuKawai · Mar 19, 2015

Watch this space, I have my most ghetto mod yet in progress.

If you want a hint, I have a bag of 4000 cable ties.

peche · Mar 19, 2015

xvi said:
My work has a good number of P3 servers in production.... doing mission critical work. Don't need much to forward DNS requests, so why fix what isn't broken?

Also, I have found the holy grail of ghetto mods:

WTf
cant believe it ...

Jetster · Mar 19, 2015

This laptop was all scratched up from my daughter at college. So I went for a matte finish by sanding it.

Maybe sand it a little more then a clear coat?

AsRock · Mar 19, 2015

shame about the sides others wise looks pretty sweet.

I should do that with mine as it's shiny by default.

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Processor	Ryzen 7 3700X \| Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
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Processor	Ryzen 7 3700X \| Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
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System Name	Taihou \| Hiryuu
Processor	Ryzen 7 3700X \| Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
Motherboard	B450 Aorus Pro WiFi \| ThinkPad T14 Gen 3
Cooling	Corsair H60i
Memory	32GB DDR4 3000MHz \| 32GB LPDDR5 6400MHz
Video Card(s)	GTX 1070 \| Radeon 680m
Storage	Samsung SM961 256GB, Intel 660p 1TB, WD Blue SSD 1TB, WD Blue 4TB, WD Green 2TB \| Kingston NV2 2TB
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Case	CoolerMaster MasterBox Pro 5
Audio Device(s)	Focusrite Scarlet Solo + JDS Atom
Power Supply	Corsair TX650
Mouse	Logitech G502 SE
Keyboard	Red Dragon K552 w/ Purple Zealios v2 65g switches
Software	Windows 10 Education 22H2 \| Windows 10 Pro 22H2

System Name	Party On
Processor	Xeon w 3520
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty
Cooling	Big tower thing
Memory	6 gb Ballistix Tracer
Video Card(s)	HD 7970
Case	a plank of wood
Audio Device(s)	seperate amp and 6 big speakers
Power Supply	Corsair
Mouse	cheap
Keyboard	under going restoration

Ghetto Mods

RikuKawai

RikuKawai

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

Spaced Out Lunar Tick

RikuKawai

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

Spaced Out Lunar Tick

RikuKawai

RikuKawai

xvi

wagana

RikuKawai

SirKeldon

RikuKawai

RikuKawai

Octopuss

RikuKawai

wagana

Octopuss

RikuKawai

R-T-B

JunkBear

RikuKawai

RikuKawai

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

Jetster

AsRock

TPU addict

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