Ghetto Mods

[witkazy]

Please post the project log to TPU

Do not tempt me , I just might, purelly for heck of it.Cheers.

 

[IceScreamer]

Palit's cooling made some annoying whirring sound, so off came the stock shroud and on came the ADDA industrial fan (custom sleeved with paracord), which is surprisingly silent, as in no sound at all. Zipties were on for a while but then I wanted something that I can take off when cleaning. A couple of M2 screws and nuts and some washers.

 

[Jetster]

Pretty nice for Ghetto

 

[witkazy]

Posh as Farquad ,but hey,who said Ghetto ought'a be nasty?

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

The secondary fan on my R9 280 failed recently. So I replaced it. :facepalm:

Took a few pics to document it.


this is the plan, I found a 100mm fan in one of my parts boxes. as you can see it doesnt fit properly.


a few fins need to be removed.

I missed taking a few pics but the fan is mounted here, take note that the square peg doesnt fit in a round hole.

tried to grind the shroud to make it fit (BFH wasnt handy here) and found that the corners were a bit thin and decided to hack it in half.

Always use safety glasses when grinding anything.


mounted the fan with a few ties.


Finished. Used a Sharpie to cover up the grind marks.

Plugged the fan into a fan controller, downloaded Nicehash, seemed like a good way to load it. Did some overclocking with Afterburner, so far running steady 1035core / 1450mem. With the fan at half speed ( have great case flow) temps are roughly 66 degrees, at full speed only a net a couple extra degrees nothing to brag about. Im not really sure how far I can push this card so ill be playing with over the next few days. Hindsight suggested I should have changed the paste while I was already modding it.

 

[Jetster]

Now that is ghetto

 

[jboydgolfer]

Now that is ghetto

W/ a capital G

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Here is an update to the OC : 1050core 1480mem , afterburner only goes up to 1575 for mem.

Ive seen this card pushed to 1100/15xx somewhere else with watercooling, wonder if I can get that ...

 

[LPide]

W/ a capital G

is there a video?

 

[Nuckles56]

I decided that I was sick of the amount of dust getting into my CM elite 130 case, so I modded in some dust filters using some fine fabric and duct tape, and I had to put the one for the GPU air intake on the outside as it would just make contact with the GPU fans no matter how hard I tried if it was on the inside

 

[jboydgolfer]

I decided that I was sick of the amount of dust getting into my CM elite 130 case, so I modded in some dust filters using some fine fabric and duct tape, and I had to put the one for the GPU air intake on the outside as it would just make contact with the GPU fans no matter how hard I tried if it was on the insideView attachment 100162View attachment 100163

When I was a teenager I used to use silkscreen or millaguage fabric/screen for making....... # , i found it doubled as a great dust filter, but mine was white, black is way nicer.

 

[Nuckles56]

I ended up using chiffon for it, but yeah, I can certainly understand that

 

[silentbogo]

Got an entry-level laptop in a trade recently. The internal battery died and it had several issues, which prevented it from functioning right.
Probably one of the worst ASUS designs I've seen so far.

So, I've ordered a new battery, which in addition to turning the stationary black box back into laptop again also resolved some USB power/noise issues (disappearing flashdrives and twitchy touchpad).

Also, the internal cooling is awful even for a 6W SoC:



That metal pad is all she wrote.... There is a PWM fan inside the case, but it never spins because it's tied to system board temperature, but if you load the GPU or CPU - it won't budge even if the chip is 80C or hotter! Worst of all - there is no radiator or heatpipe of any sorts. Just a fan blowing air over a thin piece of steel, when it feels like it

So, I've figured out a quick 10-minute solution: I've added an extra heatsink from a donor motherboard, plus I've removed the PWM control and made it spin at constant half-speed by slightly tweaking fan's input voltage(which is more than enough for this small low-power chip).



Now it's nice, cool and still quiet. Ready to be deployed as a hi-tech internet-connected typewriter at my neighbor's office.

 

[Jetster]

I decided that I was sick of the amount of dust getting into my CM elite 130 case, so I modded in some dust filters using some fine fabric and duct tape, and I had to put the one for the GPU air intake on the outside as it would just make contact with the GPU fans no matter how hard I tried if it was on the insideView attachment 100162View attachment 100163

The filter are going to fill up. Just use positive pressure and filter the intakes

 

[Ahhzz]

I ended up using chiffon for it, but yeah, I can certainly understand that

pantyhose.

 

[Nuckles56]

The filter are going to fill up. Just use positive pressure and filter the intakes

I've done what I can to make it positive pressure, but with this particular case, the PSU isn't in a position where it can easily get air from the front fan and draws air in for itself from the top, and the same thing goes for the GPU when it spins up

 

[rockit00]

I've been out of the desktop building game since the Devils Canyon, 4.4GHz Satisfaction! Since then I've been tinkering with broken, not working, as-is, PC's. Mainly ghetto fixing older model AiO's. I got the itch in April and bought a broken 34" 3440 x 1440 All in One PC. Not a ghetto mod as such but more of a first time High Def experiment. 34" curved replacement LED panels for this model PC don't exist or they cost as much as a brand new PC. The Panel was two thirds working with a third totally smashed. I managed to do the windows 10 setup on the partial screen and when I logged in, the working part of the screen turned into a blurry double vision potential seizure causing mess! OK I'm still using a 1920 x 1080 monitor on my desktop and the switch to HDMI out is no problem for completing the installation. With the 34" screen in the state of sometimes working I decided to remove the LCD panel only. The 34" LCD itself is not really curved and it came out fairly easily, leaving a nice bright unblemished 34" curved LED light table. Done deal. I don't plan on getting a 3440 x 1440 monitor or HDTV anytime soon but I'm all set when I do. I'd recommend this type mod to anyone who uses a monitor or HDTV with 3440 x 1440 resolution.

 

[Vayra86]

Ghetto mod level: rookie

Hanging the GPU by its PCIe cabling didn't do the trick entirely... so; new solution. Finally got rid of the sag, straight as an arrow now Fun fact, I had that little shot glass in my room for about a decade. Finally found a real use for it, it fits perfectly
Also hid the super annoying and bright red led next to DR.Debug under a sticker

 

[Jetster]

Just ran across this pic so I thought it was post worthy

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Just ran across this pic so I thought it was post worthy

PVC tubes are part of the erector sets now?

 

[Komshija]

Laptops are known for not-so-great cooling. Despite cooling can be improved by replacing factory thermal paste and factory thermal pads with the better ones, this will usually void your warranty. The next solution is quite simple. It's not a modification, but technically a simple "wedge" that anyone with some basic tools like saw, axe, wood file and metal file can make.

I had some extra wooden slats at home, so I made wedges from them. If you don't have wooden slats, a 5 cm thick wooden branch, an old ready-to-dump wooden chair etc. will do, but it will require slightly more effort. It works by allowing more airflow underneath, thus resulting in better cooling. Laptop's "legs" should be positioned on these wedges.

This is an example how it should look like:
Dimensions:
Width: 3 cm
Length: 1,5 cm
Height: 1 cm

 

[jboydgolfer]

Last night I went grocery shopping at Stop & Shop. My wife needed Mountain Dew, and they are having a sale ~(20 ounce bottle-6packs X3 for $6)~. As I was collecting Eight 6 packs, I realized there was something I could easily re-purpose much like one of those black heavy duty plastic milk crates. Once I got it home, I knew immediately what I would use it for, it's my new computer stand (since my living room is wall-to-wall carpet).

Before, it was just a 24 bottle carrying rack, made by Pepsi

After, it is a VERY sturdy PC stand, with amazing airflow
Check that Dust & the Equally Neat Cable routing job in back of the PC ,

 

[stinger608]

Awesome use of that crate bro!!!!! Good thinking man.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Last night I went grocery shopping at Stop & Shop. My wife needed Mountain Dew, and they are having a sale ~(20 ounce bottle-6packs X3 for $6)~. As I was collecting Eight 6 packs, I realized there was something I could easily re-purpose much like one of those black heavy duty plastic milk crates. Once I got it home, I knew immediately what I would use it for, it's my new computer stand (since my living room is wall-to-wall carpet).

Before, it was just a 24 bottle carrying rack, made by Pepsi
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After, it is a VERY sturdy PC stand, with amazing airflow
Check that Dust & the Equally Neat Cable routing job in back of the PC ,

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+2 for leaving the dust intact!

 

[micropage7]

Last night I went grocery shopping at Stop & Shop. My wife needed Mountain Dew, and they are having a sale ~(20 ounce bottle-6packs X3 for $6)~. As I was collecting Eight 6 packs, I realized there was something I could easily re-purpose much like one of those black heavy duty plastic milk crates. Once I got it home, I knew immediately what I would use it for, it's my new computer stand (since my living room is wall-to-wall carpet).

Before, it was just a 24 bottle carrying rack, made by Pepsi
View attachment 101203


After, it is a VERY sturdy PC stand, with amazing airflow
Check that Dust & the Equally Neat Cable routing job in back of the PC ,

View attachment 101204

great especially then you have extra clearance there