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Ghetto Mods

Strange thing i seemed to have seen that last picture before :)

déjà vu :)

theres a time and a place for everything, the last place was the wrong place,

these pics deserve a home here to serve as a testament to ingenuity and luck ( and stupidity of course), thing is (rubs wood franticly) my mods work, ridiculous as they may seem to me from the outset. With a bit of thought, some knowledge and sometimes some expert advice.

If it helps to keep old kit going I am all for it.
 
If it helps to keep old kit going I am all for it.
You and me both, brother.
My ghetto mods are either temporary(new/current hardware) or permanent(old hardware or I just decided f**k it), but usually temporary. If my case didn't have a window, there would be zip ties all over the place. My car on the other hand... zip ties just make it more JDM :p
 
Sorry folks....i forgot to add the proof.....

ThugXeon in my specs 24/7 cruncher
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In Da Ghetto!
 
I had to cut out the i/o sheild out of my case with wire cutters took me over an hour to, which is for an hp xw8400 workstation pc and the board I bought to replace since it went belly up was for an xw 8600 system.

It looks very ghetto and sharp lol. I post pics up when I get a chance.
 
Wait is this still updated? I do have some original content
 
No, last post was yesterday /s
 
Wait is this still updated? I do have some original content

Well put them in! This is a living, creaking thread, like some of the ghetto mods.
 
This cardboard side panel with the cpu fan out
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I like it. It also looks like that fan was spray-painted, and is held on with a drinking straw?
 
@1marcelfilms you are so, so , so very welcome in this place i call home.


i dont think it is a straw, just a bit of pipe is my bet, it still wins hands down for today.

I think we should try and kick off some sort of scoring system, something like the one they use in figure skating, modding shows a similar level of finesse i feel.

Any ideas.?..i am even worse at software than hardware and my skill level there is plain for all to see.

1 technical level
2 amount of cable ties/ sticky tape/ stuff lying around used
3 finesse, the more attempts made the better
4 time taken
5 finished result/effectiveness

based on this system, each category out of 10



1. 2 not very hard
2 10 exemplary
3 1 first go...has to be
4 4 probably took ages
5 10 exemplary


27 pts for marcels mod

EDIT...maybe call your own score and get called out i dunno....dont want to get removed to GN (again)
 
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Wow thanks, this computer is basically the first i had. It used to be shared until 2009ish when my parens got laptops and i got another one. Then a few years later i decided to do some modding and i had the side panel (the one that is cardboard now) spray painted in portal style, i also had the front plastic off to show the grille. I tried spraying the cpu fan but it is unbalanced now and i have this cardboard side made from pizza box. These pictures Were taken about a year ago. I just checked and the straw is still there its just randomly placed there tho.

If i were to rate i would do

Technical 3 :
Things 5 :
Attempts 1: because measure once cut twice
Time taken 3: maybe 10 minutes
Finised results 10: it works
 
I just wet.myself.

I think you are underselling yourself on the "things" element.

Do you think there is room for a bonus category...sort of a kudos award and if so...do you think you deserve bonus points for this ghetto mod?

When i am on my pc tomorrow i will rate my hd 5770 mod from earlier. I have some mega kudos points in line for that one.....
 
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Here we go.....my score for my HD 5770 mod.


Bit of background first.
I bought this card about 2 1/2 years ago, it cost me £ 50.00 on ebay second hand, i already had a HD 5750, i fancied a crack at crossfire and the 5770 was a good price. So thats what i did, i put both cards on a Giga 880g and crossfired, i was disappointed with the results, i am not a big gamer, nothing too demanding, driving mainly (NFS).

Where i was getting 30fps with the 5750 when i added the 5770 i was only getting 40 fps so i abandoned the Xfire thing, put the 5750 in my sons pc and kept the better card for myself.
Fine, hunky dory, then the specs for GTA V came out and i really wanted to be able to enjoy the game with reasonable FPS. I bought an HD 5850 for the bargain price of £ 12.50 ( I am a skint Welshman, long term sick, and no money.) and put it in my main pc......nothing fancy, in my specs an o/c on a quad core athlon with 8 gbs ram (plays GTA V 30 fps).

This left me with a "redundant" HD 5770.
I own several other pcs, including a dedicated cruncher called ThugXeon, just crunches...its a 4 core Xeon chip with H/T........8 threads running at 2.5ghz 24/7.

I saw a thread on TPU.......it ended up as a bit of a cockfight actually, members argued about i5...i7 , cores, threads, speeds, a mod stepped in and things calmed down. But it got me thinking.....i could install GTA V on both these machines, give them both 8gb RAM and do a comparison, watching FPS, task manager, GPUZ and all the fun stuff that gets me going.

So that was the aim, put the 5770 on a Supermicro X8sti with a Xeon E5620, d/l GTA to the hdd and then do a comparison and a report.

I know the 2 machines arnet comparable really but I am an enthiusiast so the result isnt really too important.......the process to get there is the best bit.......if comparisons can be made or conclusions drawn then great.

Right back to the card.

When it arrived it was nice and clean, looked well looked after but we burn coal and other stuff in our house so it wasnt long before it needed a clean. It had obviously been cleaned before because one of the screws was missing....so what, one screw missing, at least it has been maintained well.
So i dusted it and put it back together, unfortunatley i didnt mark which hole was missing a screw so when i put it back together it rattled.........shit.....time for tape.

I didnt demonstrate when i first showed the mod and this is where i start piling on the points......
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see the silver tape? i found that on the side of the road, it is the reflective stuff they stick around the side of road signs....look closely, you might recognize it.
That was the first attempt, sticky tape and it worked fine until the card got nice and warm, the glue turned sticky and the fan casing kind of drooped a bit. BOLLOCKS.
I though at this point i might have to spend some money.......nah.... lets try the cable tie route. It only took 2 out of a bag of 100 i bought for £ 1.00.

WAHEY... fixed, working, temps are good. The tape is now baked on to the card so i cant get it off without a solvent and that is in my shed somewhere.
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I have already shown the pic where i removed the locking tab so i wont add that pic here........now it is time for points.


Technical 6 it took a strong heart to rip that bit of plastic off
Stuff 10 cost 2p and included rubbish from the roadside.
Finesse 5
Attempts 5 took about an hour.......3 stabs at it
Result 10 works perfectly

that gives me 36 points but this is where i play my trump card to pile on a hefty dose of kudos points.

When i posted my card mod on 4 th May, i felt as if it might be seen as a slur on the good name of XFX and just by chance i noticed that the guy from @XFXSupport was on line so i thought i had better make some sort of apology, a gentle warning if you like that something quite gross had happenned. It would have been quite shocking for him if he stumbled across the pics. I really didnt want to make him cry or upset him.

So, i pm 'd him with the title "Hope you dont mind" and i copied the pics to the email.


Guess what?.......the lovely fellow actually replied.....better still he liked it.. :pimp: ( he didnt really express it in many words but i felt a kind of www warmness eminate from my monitor.)
The phrase LOL was mentioned....i think he meant to type COOL and used the wrong letters.

Oh Yeah KUDOS POINTS FOR ME 10 of them


So for this mod

I have genorously award myself 46 points

feel free to call me out :roll:
 
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EDIT...maybe call your own score and get called out i dunno....dont want to get removed to GN (again)

Why Not Have

Panel of judges comprising

One Moderator + Two "Impartial Members

All in a NEW Separate Thread ( for Those Prepared to be Ridiculed praised and judged )

Entrant Rates his Mod then it gets counter judged by panel
finaly
TPU poll for members to rate mod of month at top of thread

Moderator opinion wanted
 
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Just asking does it have to be strictly computer related or can mobile phones? meanwhile i got a lot of content to catch up with
EDIT: does anyone have that pic with the cpu cooler made with random strands on it
 
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I wanna see it regardless

Not sure what you are referring to, but a while back I attached my H75 to an LGA775 board using strings... I think it's on this thread somewhere...
 
Just asking does it have to be strictly computer related or can mobile phones? meanwhile i got a lot of content to catch up wit h
I think earlier in the thread we decided that if it's tech and has been ghetto-modded, it's welcome here. I do recall someone posting a picture of a calculator with a TRUE strapped to it :roll:
 
I hope the phone has become

a...huge
b..really awkward to use
c ..brilliant

Dont mind which.
 

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Shit. I was hoping that was the phone.
 
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