Ghetto Mods

[Ruru]

Sucks that I'm not at home now, I have the fans on my 2nd rig's GPU supported with a short PETG tube. Remind me that I post a pic later.

It has an aftermarket heatsink and 2x92mm fans in a PCI slot cover bracket.

 

[rusty caterpillar]

Think I already posted this, what to do if you have microATX mobo with too close PCIe x1 card to GPU? Use PCIe x1 'relocator'. Flash makes the dust looks 1000% worse lol

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Though by using this it have that odd noise through the speaker when you move your mouse or do something, so I put some anti static bag around the soundcard. The PCIe power connector is properly dange around there so the anti static bag is covering the bottom and side of the card. I put a smaller anti static bag on top near the analog side of the card. No more that irritating eeeee when mouse moves.

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I can't tell if that covered in ECS bags is a soundcard. Maybe get an 1-2 mm thick Aluminum sheet and mod away a way to screw in the back just above the sound card without touching the PCB underneath or MBO PCB.
To prevent Aluminum sheet to touch the PCB while sagging add a 2mm thermal pad in between towards the tail of the Aluminum sheet. Also you can seat the Al sheet on 2 thermal pads, make sure the soldered pins from the back of the card doesn't protrude trough thermal pad, you don't want shorts, even double the thickness of the thermal pad if is necessary.
Aluminum should give enough shielding.
Hope it helps.
For example on ALC4080/4082 chips the design of the MBO has flaws regarding placement of the sound and USB power passing trough or close by- USB power traces goes very close to the sound chip, resulting in interference between the the sound and the voltages required by USB.

 

[nomdeplume]

Though by using this it have that odd noise through the speaker when you move your mouse or do something, so I put some anti static bag around the soundcard. The PCIe power connector is properly dange around there so the anti static bag is covering the bottom and side of the card. I put a smaller anti static bag on top near the analog side of the card. No more that irritating eeeee when mouse moves.

Or just glue some rubber donuts to a couple toothpicks and accept your dongle is the predominant issue.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Weird when I testing without the anti static bag and using headphone directly to the card there is no noise at all, maybe it's something to do with my speaker, or the cable I'm using.

 

[nomdeplume]

The dreaded wired XBOX360 controller disconnecting constantly failure - Solved

(Solved and immediately transitioned from looking ready for a dumpster to clean and shiny and ready for the dumpster.)

 

[Apocalypsee]

Ah, the classic 'I only work in this one particular orientation' problem

 

[nomdeplume]

Ah, the classic 'I only work in this one particular orientation' problem

I tried no end of household items after seeing rigidly fixing the piece of cord between strain relief and ferrites was magic. There was no magic.

Hopefully by the time this masking tape loses stickiness I'll have a new controller or a better plan.

 

[Ruru]

Here's the fan support

Ah, the classic 'I only work in this one particular orientation' problem

My 360 controller had the exact same issue. Got tired of that and bought the Xbone S controller which I use wirelessly.

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

Had to secure a video card in a slot with a broken latch/tab the other day by hot gluing it in place......been a long time since I had to do that. Looks like hell, but it works.....at least for a while.

 

[RaceT3ch]

Had to secure a video card in a slot with a broken latch/tab the other day by hot gluing it in place......been a long time since I had to do that. Looks like hell, but it works.....at least for a while.

It's probably possible that the card can run hot enough to melt the glue tbh
What card was it?

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

It melts at 350f. Just holding in a low profile quadro that is there to run multi-monitors in a slim dell. It works now, and it will be fine. One of those temporary fixes that the guy will probably use for years.

 

[rushi]

I once had to add another radiator, but didn't want to drain the whole loop. Since I didn't have any proper clamps, I zip-tied live .45ACP rounds tight to the hoses.
That for sure was Ghetto A.F. and worked perfectly fine!

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

Now that is some high-caliber ingenuity

 

[Apocalypsee]

I once had to add another radiator, but didn't want to drain the whole loop. Since I didn't have any proper clamps, I zip-tied live .45ACP rounds tight to the hoses.
That for sure was Ghetto A.F. and worked perfectly fine!

How many bottles till you decide '9mm isn't enough I need .45 for this'

 

[SN2716057]

I forgot to take pix but I put electric tape on the annoying LEDs inside the Epomaker F75. It was surprisingly easy to open and none of the clips broke off

Now it's as black as my espresso

 

[natr0n]

I once had to add another radiator, but didn't want to drain the whole loop. Since I didn't have any proper clamps, I zip-tied live .45ACP rounds tight to the hoses.
That for sure was Ghetto A.F. and worked perfectly fine!

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rounds going off when system over heats makes for an exciting alert system

 

[rushi]

How many bottles till you decide '9mm isn't enough I need .45 for this'

Max 1. I just thought that .45 could be suitable for the 1/2" hose

rounds going off when system over heats makes for an exciting alert system

"It had blown a fuse."

 

[lexluthermiester]

Today, I present another one of my machanations. This time, a Sabrent SATA/USB3.0 docking enclosure.
It's been sitting unused for a while because the drives would get very hot while inside it due to very poor ventilation.

So I fixed that problem as follows;

As you can see from the holes in the lid, I was going to use a 60MM fan but found it was both too loud and didn't pull enough air. The blower fan gets the job done very well and very quietly! Heat be gone!

The fan power is supplied by the DC input with one wire soldered through the switch. It only comes on when the power switch is actuated. This thing works like a dream now!

 

[datnoz]

Today, I present another one of my machanations. This time, a Sabrent SATA/USB3.0 docking enclosure.
It's been sitting unused for a while because the drives would get very hot while inside it due to very poor ventilation.

So I fixed that problem as follows;
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As you can see from the holes in the lid, I was going to use a 60MM fan but found it was both too load and didn't pull enough air. The blower fan gets the job done very well and very quietly! Heat be gone!

The fan power is supplied by the DC input with one wire soldered through the switch. It only comes on when the power switch is actuated. This thing works like a dream now!

wonderful piece of engineering
wait... are'nt you the one who would put backward caps on asus z690
EDIT: it's a joke, don't take it personnaly

 

[InVasMani]

Today, I present another one of my machanations. This time, a Sabrent SATA/USB3.0 docking enclosure.
It's been sitting unused for a while because the drives would get very hot while inside it due to very poor ventilation.

So I fixed that problem as follows;
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As you can see from the holes in the lid, I was going to use a 60MM fan but found it was both too loud and didn't pull enough air. The blower fan gets the job done very well and very quietly! Heat be gone!

The fan power is supplied by the DC input with one wire soldered through the switch. It only comes on when the power switch is actuated. This thing works like a dream now!

Nice ET Cartridge ghetto mod.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Nice ET Cartridge ghetto mod.

Anyone younger would have no idea what that means and how funny a joke that is! Very nice!

 

[micropage7]

my logitech mouse giving me noise when i scroll, it comes from inside of the mouse so i put tape on the internal feet and the annoying sound gone

 

[silentbogo]

my logitech mouse giving me noise when i scroll, it comes from inside of the mouse so i put tape on the internal feet and the annoying sound gone

For my g603 I used pieces of thin foam pad that comes with motherboard packing. As much as Logitech want to present themselves as "premium" brand, their quality surely went to shit in recent years.
My scrollwheel was rattling even when just moving a mouse on the desk.

 

[micropage7]

For my g603 I used pieces of thin foam pad that comes with motherboard packing. As much as Logitech want to present themselves as "premium" brand, their quality surely went to shit in recent years.
My scrollwheel was rattling even when just moving a mouse on the desk.

yea, i feel their old stuff better than newer one, the switch solder that harder to remove like the use el cheapo tin but anyway i love their optical encoder scroll wheel

 

[silentbogo]

Had a little spare time today, so I finally modded my cheap-ass glue gun ($7.50 or so). It used to be powered by 4xAA batteries, which was painfully slow and very expensive in the long-run. NiMh batteries are even slower, unless I increase cell count.
With power outages on the way I've decided to add rechargeable batteries and slightly "overclock" it.
Did an extensive invasive surgery on the battery compartment. Now it runs off a pair of old Samsung LiPo batteries, which bumps the voltage from 6V to ~8.6V and bumps power from 8W to almost 12W. Now it heats up to working temperature in a couple of minutes, and lasts approximately 1.5H on full charge.
A proper dedicated charger would be nice. I'm currenly using my lab PSU for charging.