Ghetto Mods

OneMoar · May 13, 2015

Random Murderer said:
Ha, ok.
Been doing it for years with no issues, dozens of PSUs, various combinations of fans and other loads inside and outside of PCs. Obviously you don't understand electricity enough to understand what's going on and how modern PSUs see crossload all the time in normal circumstances, no different from running a fan like this. So I'm not going to bother trying to explain potentials and crossload, etc., just know that I do know what I'm doing.

Honestly @OneMoar, you've turned into kind of an asshole lately. Are you feeling OK?

This man speaks the truth!

Orly
when you configure it like this you are using the 5V as a sink which could be really bad on cheaper psu's its also a terrible idea for any current draw over ~5 Amps is asking for it
Its hard on the REG's and inefficient as all hell,and introduces ripple noise
and modern psu's crossload all the time ? LOLNOPE

OneMoar · May 13, 2015

Random Murderer · May 13, 2015

I'm going to drop this before a mod has to step in.

Somebody post some pictures.

EDIT: Here's one of my favorites. X58 Rampage II Gene, i7 920, TriFire Asus 4870 and 4870x2, 6GB RAM, Corsair HX1000W. Not mine, btw.

EDIT 2:

OneMoar said:

I lol'd.

peche · May 13, 2015

Random Murderer said:

ghetto mod of the mount?

Regards,

newtekie1 · May 14, 2015

OneMoar said:
ever heard of a fan controller ?

Those cost money.

OneMoar · May 14, 2015

newtekie1 said:
Those cost money.

I got mine free with my fans lol

micropage7 · May 14, 2015

Random Murderer said:
I'm going to drop this before a mod has to step in.

Somebody post some pictures.

EDIT: Here's one of my favorites. X58 Rampage II Gene, i7 920, TriFire Asus 4870 and 4870x2, 6GB RAM, Corsair HX1000W. Not mine, btw.

EDIT 2:

I lol'd.

this is what i call sleeper

JunkBear · May 14, 2015

JunkBear said:
Calm down!!! (walk away ghetto style)

Instead of cutting my post in half and messing up my jokes just delete it next time. Thank you.

HammerON · May 14, 2015

JunkBear said:
Instead of cutting my post in half and messing up my jokes just delete it next time. Thank you.

I can do that.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · May 14, 2015

I had big plans for one of these, Apple G4 case, got it for about £20.00 including p+p, thought i would make me a Hackintosh and fit it inside. Made the Hackintosh without too much hassle, the mods to the case took a decided turn for the worse when i got the lump hammer out, it was never going to end well after that.

la

Look what i've got left

it is more Get out than Ghetto.

Shame really, it is such a lovely looking case. I started out with the best of intentions but after a couple of cuts (to me, not the case) i realized i was in too far. I didnt wreck the case, it wrecked me !!

Based on the scoring system and as i am glutton for public humiliation here goes

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

10 not a job for the inexperienced, lots of metal cutting and fabrication, i/o slots are a nightmare
10 used everything you can imagine including lump hammer, ratchet strap, the Wife and 4 inch grinder
6 i had to put it down a few times to have a think
10 ages, really a very long time, and it felt felt like even longer too because i had to find sticking plasters and antiseptic.
0 totally shit

a fairly respectable 36 points awarded to me by me

aaah, i forgot....the Hackintosh element which in itself was a mod was a complete success, 6 bonus points for that i reckon.

Giving me 42 points for my "Side Off An Apple Hack Hacksaw Job" :clap:

dorsetknob · May 14, 2015

Caps
According to the cult of Jubbies I'm Not worthy to judge this for i have sinned and blasphemed the wondrous fruit from the garden of Eden

MasterFilms · May 15, 2015

Random Murderer said:
I'm going to drop this before a mod has to step in.

Somebody post some pictures.

EDIT: Here's one of my favorites. X58 Rampage II Gene, i7 920, TriFire Asus 4870 and 4870x2, 6GB RAM, Corsair HX1000W. Not mine, btw.

EDIT 2:

I lol'd.

i love these things, getting a late 90's case and put modern stuff in it

no one is going to steal it Dx

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · May 15, 2015

I like the look of this,

I might well be having a stab, :toast:

....i am quite partial to the smell of burning plastic...........pass the grinder. :pimp:

acrylic is cheap, it is easy to cut and bond
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002U5I7NA/?tag=tec053-21

not everyones cup of tea ------not my build but watch this space, there will be Ghetto elements !!!!

dorsetknob · May 15, 2015

Fit lots of led fans a couple of cold cathode strips and or led strips and your have your Ghetto Christmas tree box

peche · May 15, 2015

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
I like the look of this,

I might well be having a stab, ....i am quite partial to the smell of burning plastic...........pass the grinder.

acrylic is cheap, it is easy to cut and bond
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002U5I7NA/?tag=tec053-21

not everyones cup of tea ------not my build but watch this space, there will be Ghetto elements !!!!

nice looking case but that’s it, no more than nice looking,

Maintenance on that case is a pain on the *ss, cleaning dust and filthiness there is a infinite labor … because is transparent you will see it dirty pretty son, also acrylic is good keeping heat around it, it does preserve heat pretty much, also the worst fact, Acrylic cracks pretty easy…

no more than a big acrylic window for me,

Regards,

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · May 15, 2015

Despite your protestations dear @peche and your sound advice i am daft and determined enough to give it a go.

peche · May 15, 2015

hello!

no protestations at all my dear friend, was just a couple of advices about it, I'll look for some photos I'm pretty sure that my old acrylic case still somewhere around my room…

I owned one by the way my first custom / exotic case!

newtekie1 · May 15, 2015

I had a clear PC once. Though the person that made my case did it a little different than most of the others. It isn't a bunch of flat sheets of acrylic with fasteners at all the corners. There are no fasteners at all holding the acrylic pieces together(except the 4 bolts holding the side panel on). It is all glued together with acrylic glue. The main part of the body is actually one large piece that is heated and bent around to form the main "C" portion of the case and the front and back panels are glued to that. So the Top, the back side, the bottom, and the small parts at the top and bottom of the side with the side panel are formed from all one big piece of acrylic bent into shape.

To give you an idea of the age, yes that is a floppy drive, that is a 9800 Pro, and it is a Socket 478 3.0GHz Northwood processor...

Yes dust was an absolute pain, this was the one and only build I did in this case. The case now sits empty in my basement with all my other discarded cases...

OneMoar · May 16, 2015

newtekie1 said:
I had a clear PC once. Though the person that made my case did it a little different than most of the others. It isn't a bunch of flat sheets of acrylic with fasteners at all the corners. There are no fasteners at all holding the acrylic pieces together(except the 4 bolts holding the side panel on). It is all glued together with acrylic glue. The main part of the body is actually one large piece that is heated and bent around to form the main "C" portion of the case and the front and back panels are glued to that. So the Top, the back side, the bottom, and the small parts at the top and bottom of the side with the side panel are formed from all one big piece of acrylic bent into shape.

To give you an idea of the age, yes that is a floppy drive, that is a 9800 Pro, and it is a Socket 478 3.0GHz Northwood processor...

Yes dust was an absolute pain, this was the one and only build I did in this case. The case now sits empty in my basement with all my other discarded cases...

time to seal it up with some JB-weld and build a oil cooled fish-tank pc

micropage7 · May 16, 2015

newtekie1 said:
I had a clear PC once. Though the person that made my case did it a little different than most of the others. It isn't a bunch of flat sheets of acrylic with fasteners at all the corners. There are no fasteners at all holding the acrylic pieces together(except the 4 bolts holding the side panel on). It is all glued together with acrylic glue. The main part of the body is actually one large piece that is heated and bent around to form the main "C" portion of the case and the front and back panels are glued to that. So the Top, the back side, the bottom, and the small parts at the top and bottom of the side with the side panel are formed from all one big piece of acrylic bent into shape.

To give you an idea of the age, yes that is a floppy drive, that is a 9800 Pro, and it is a Socket 478 3.0GHz Northwood processor...

Yes dust was an absolute pain, this was the one and only build I did in this case. The case now sits empty in my basement with all my other discarded cases...

back when i guess its about 2002 or 2003 when i saw acrylic case is pretty cool

peche · May 19, 2015

a fine contribution made by another lad in IT department at the office!

Nvidia GT430... fan was screw... no parts or cooler found... so ...

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · May 19, 2015

a fine contribution made by another lad in TI department at the office

@peche do they do computer related stuff in the T I dept.?

Just wondering.

xvi · May 19, 2015

Not particularly ghetto, but related. I overclocked the GeForce 8400 GS that came in one of my work computers to improve it's Google Earth capability. The card is very obviously memory starved since I was able to nearly double my FPS in benchmarks by increasing the memory clock alone. Moving up GPU clock speed made pretty much no difference.

I thought that fit pretty nicely in to the general IT job of "I don't care, just make it work".

peche · May 19, 2015

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CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
a fine contribution made by another lad in TI department at the office

@peche do they do computer related stuff in the T I dept.?

Just wondering.

My bad ... information technologies department ... systems and support!!

kn00tcn · May 31, 2015

peche said:
Nvidia GT430... fan was screw... no parts or cooler found... so ...

is there a temp monitor? i ran a geforce2 with a dead fan... not to mention a q9550 3.6ghz OC with a hyper 212 with a dead fan... actually also ran a 9800pro with a dead fan but it would freeze in game after a few min

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