Ghetto Mods

[micropage7]

i know its not ghetto but i dunno where i should post it

when your table is full and got no room anymore
just stack it

 

[P4-630]

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i know its not ghetto but i dunno where i should post it

when your table is full and got no room anymore
just stack it

You did some ghetto modding with that tape , your acer display bezel cracked...
Display still 100% working?

 

[micropage7]

You did some ghetto modding with that tape , your acer display bezel cracked...
Display still 100% working?

whahaha just i leave it that way
its my fault i put a pen on keyboard then i closed the lid
actually the bezel is fine but the monitor gives me straight dead pixels

 

[Misaki]

Intel said that I can't connect 4K monitor to HD3000. I said "Go ahead and try to stop me!"

(Only 30Hz, though...)

 

[lorraine walsh]

Intel said that I can't connect 4K monitor to HD3000. I said "Go ahead and try to stop me!"

(Only 30Hz, though...)

Well I see what you did there Good on you to smartly work it out.

 

[jaw shwaa]

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i know its not ghetto but i dunno where i should post it

when your table is full and got no room anymore
just stack it

That's like my garage

 

[EntropyZ]

Hey, it's been a while. Ever since I sold my Radeon R9 380, there's been an emptyness of sorts. I couldn't play anything made past 2004 at higher settings with the Intel HD 2000, even giving it a generous 200MHz+ boost didn't do much at all.

So out comes the Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT (Edit: Turns out it's the MSI version, no wonder the PCB is red) I had lying around, it had a crappy cooling solution so I intended to fix that. This is my v2 that's still a WIP, I intend to cut up an old Intel heatsink and use the pieces as heatsinks for the VRAM.

Behind the Intel fan, lies a heatsink I nabbed from a HD 3450 from ASUS. I redid the mounting slightly so it fits the PCB and doesn't get in the way of the components. Lucky for me the PCB had a ton of unused holes near the chip already. The rubber bands are for that extra home-made feel.

PROTIP: If the PCI-E contacts get gunked up, get yourself a soft pencil eraser and give it a good ol' rub (hehe boi). Once the contacts are shiny you're good to go! Note: Only do this if you don't have professional cleaning tools, it's possible to kill the card, but I haven't been able to do that myself.

I just felt like doing something to get rid of the boredom. I hope you like it!

Edit: Based on benchmarks and some older games, the Intel iGPU beats the 8500 GT by a small margin. I actually thought a dedicated GPU would run better since it is be able to run Dishonored on very low settings and TES IV: Oblivion on high settings, oh well. Maybe at some point I will pick up a GTS 450 and "upgrade" it so I could overclock it.

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Darn thing started acting up by refusing to powerup ,dont know if it was because of more volts from the mains or not ,summer tems or not ,dicided to do a quick fix as the relay is the culprit(controled by stand-by curcuitry): shunted the part where the relay(secondary side of it)should do its thing, as I did not find a small coil went for the solid wire at hand;also fan added ,ziptied to the frame and solderd wires to terminals of a 25Vcc capacitor,I know, but I broke a multimeter and second one is with a dead batery. The fan aint overspining I might add.

 

[Random Murderer]

Darn thing started acting up by refusing to powerup ,dont know if it was because of more volts from the mains or not ,summer tems or not ,dicided to do a quick fix as the relay is the culprit(controled by stand-by curcuitry): shunted the part where the relay(secondary side of it)should do its thing, as I did not find a small coil went for the solid wire at hand;also fan added ,ziptied to the frame and solderd wires to terminals of a 25Vcc capacitor,I know, but I broke a multimeter and second one is with a dead batery. The fan aint overspining I might add.

Power board for a TV?

 

[dont whant to set it"']

CD player ,Tunner,Deck player, Stereo thingy;and that shunt is only temporary fix(it's allway on like this),yet a new relay with same ratings is about 2-3$ over here(couple years back), way more than a simple switch 20-40cents of wich I have at least a working one somewhere in a box,first I'l give it a try with an automotive relay that somehow dont have to search for one.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

i just found these pictures on my phone and it reminded me i never posted this mod. ( unless my memory is more shagged than i thought in which case, sorry for the repeat post)


About a year ago i spotted an ad for an EVGA GTX 680 on ebay and the pic looked a little peculiar. It was an auction sale and noone else was bidding. The ad explained that the card was modded with manual fan control.


The original ebay pic

The mod must have put everyone else off..........................I paid £ 65.00 for it and i was the only bidder. At the time they were selling for £ 120- 130

GPUZ couldnt recognize the fan percentage or RPM but still showed temps. With the fan control on the lowest setting the fan was audible but not annoyingly loud . Temps never exceeded 80 degrees even on the lowest setting though i did occasionally turn it right up to blast the dust out. I suspect the control actually overclocked the fan...


It was/is a great card....it is in a friends system now with a Xeon E5620 ( @3.9) and ASUS P5 Deluxe.

 

[Nuckles56]

This was my rig for a week. I do love some of the great work done by people in this thread
Also, sorry about the poor image quality, I blame my potato of a phone

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Its not as clunky as this one but how is that gpu geting cooled, thre might be holes on the other side that I cant spot , that wall on graphics side looks imaculate.

 

[Nuckles56]

Damn, that is quite some cable spaghetti right there, I'm impressed
There are no holes, I wasn't gaming on it for the week that I waited for the case, and it was sitting at 40 degrees in fanless mode so I didn't bother to put those holes in.

 

[GreiverBlade]

That's like my garage

That's like my .... entire house ...

 

[micropage7]

easiest way to prevent dust entering your case
put cover on it

 

[RikuKawai]

Haven't posted here in quite a while, so here's a megapost!

Ghetto Tower Cooler

Broken Screen Nexus 7 Repurposed as a server

Crate PC

Ghetto mod within a ghetto mod = Modception

Lost screws for GPU heatsink

HD5570 PCIe 1x

Case didn't have enough HDD mounts

Kraken G10: Ghetto Edition™

Obligatory Kitten

 

[Jetster]

easiest way to prevent dust entering your case
put cover on it
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Balance the pressure

 

[peche]

cant believe how hot the ghetto could be ....

 

[silentbogo]

On today's menu: an ultimate SFF case mod:


Got this little guy for $10 with a 220W(?) flex PSU. There was no hole for motherboard backplate, so I made one
It looks much prettier with a backplate (if I had a matching one for this board)
Updates with a final build will be posted soon. This is going to be the cheapest relatively modern office workstation I ever made.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Here is my current cooling arrangement.

Its the stock cooler off an FX 8350 sitting (unclipped) on my Xeon X5670 with the addition of a passive heatsink to add weight. I cant remember what i took the heatsink out of.

My temps go from 38 - 68 degrees, its really loud and i hate it. My kids have been on holiday for the last week and have completely fleeced my PC fund so for the time being I am limited to 3.6ghz 6c/12 th

All my games still play very well so apart from the noise i can live with it i suppose.

EDIT
the case is lying flat.

 

[micropage7]

On today's menu: an ultimate SFF case mod:
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Got this little guy for $10 with a 220W(?) flex PSU. There was no hole for motherboard backplate, so I made one
It looks much prettier with a backplate (if I had a matching one for this board)
Updates with a final build will be posted soon. This is going to be the cheapest relatively modern office workstation I ever made.

sff is nice but the layout is pretty bad
you need to cut it here and there

 

[Athlonite]

Here is my current cooling arrangement.

Cable ties brother that'll hold that HSF on

8 is all you should need 4 for each side of the HSF

take of the back plate and just use the holes left

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

That would mean taking the board out.....which will quickly snowball into a complete cleanout. I have just been sent a catalogue of documentaries about obscure WW 2 aircraft so im too busy for all that fuss..... (thanks @dorsetknob )

i just weighed the heatsink and measured a spare Xeon. The weight of the additional heatsink applies nearly 1lb per square inch of pressure....it'll do for now.

I actually prefer elastic bands when faced with a similar predicament.

 

[silentbogo]

I invented a creative way of fixing broken SATA power ports.... with electric tape
My neighbor's kids broke it, along with SATA connector on a 1TB barracuda. The drive also survived, but my hands were busy soldering, so no pics.