Ghetto Mods

[physicsjunky]

I notice a fair amount of case fans in near proximity. Intake or exhaust? LOLOLOLOLOLOL

This case is a little weird on the bottom it has two Intake fans the AIO is Intake and the top two fans are exhaust and two on the back Exhaust. The case mod isn't permanent and I had to reshape the boards.

 

[nomdeplume]

This case is a little weird on the bottom it has two Intake fans the AIO is Intake and the top two fans are exhaust and two on the back Exhaust. The case mod isn't permanent and I had to reshape the boards.

Highly doubt that large of styrofoam is going to dislodge and suck into a case fan. No harm intended or implied judgement being passed on your mod.
I'd bet 100% of people responding today have done similar things in the not so distant past.

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Mini White CPU Air Cooler, 6 Heat Pipes,120mm untested / might not work could be used for parts

Link to active sale can be provided to serious interested parties only.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Bought a cheap Xiaomi IEM and it sounded like it's price, disgusting. It sounded hollow and to make matter worse there is this gain (very coarse sound throughout the spectrum, like you have a bad cough). At work today I noticed there is two holes on it like pictured below

So I tried to plug the hole, so I summon the tape, this is the tape that you used on the floor (you know the hazard black/yellow striped one, THAT ONE).

Plugging the top hole corrected the coarse sound but it makes the very narrow soundstage even narrower. So what about the bottom hole?

This makes the soundstage wider and tighten up the bass so it didn't sound hollow. I like it but the grainy sound is back. So I try plugging both holes, the result? It sounded clean and sound like any generic IEM, strong bass and narrow soundstage. That is with black tape, how about other tape? I summon masking tape next

With masking tape in place the bass isn't as strong as the black tape and sounded rather nice actually, from what I observed the inside the Sennheiser HD555 really looks like it was put with masking tape (you can Google for HD 555 driver and see what I mean). But I don't like how it looks. So one more tape, this time is teflon tape

It sounded better than the black tape but slightly worse than masking tape. Eh I can live with that. This turns from 1/10 in sound quality to about 5/10, it still sucks for some serious listening but not too bad and actually passable for casual listening besides noisy machines at work.

 

[nomdeplume]

Bought a cheap Xiaomi IEM and it sounded like it's price, disgusting. It sounded hollow and to make matter worse there is this gain (very coarse sound throughout the spectrum, like you have a bad cough). At work today I noticed there is two holes on it like pictured below

You might try sticking them in a pillow or somewhere that maintains sound pressure similar to your ears and let them play at a reasonably high volume while you are work for a full week. Part of this could easily be very stiff cheap drivers needing to break in.

Holes appear to be for venting heat if that helps you get closer to understanding the efficiency level they were designed to meet. My guess is you will notice them getting quite warm.

 

[Ruru]

When you have an old laptop with no keyboard but you want to protect its guts from dust, cardboard comes to help.

I use it as a media player when I lay on my sofa if I don't want to use the TV.

 

[Apocalypsee]

You might try sticking them in a pillow or somewhere that maintains sound pressure similar to your ears and let them play at a reasonably high volume while you are work for a full week. Part of this could easily be very stiff cheap drivers needing to break in.

Holes appear to be for venting heat if that helps you get closer to understanding the efficiency level they were designed to meet. My guess is you will notice them getting quite warm.

I don't believe in break in, but it didn't hurt to break in this one so I'll try thanks.

It didn't heat up or anything at all so I believe it for bass port for product placement to make it sound worse (I bet this have the same driver as the higher end model but maybe worse in QC I dunno)

 

[kilo]

When you have an old laptop with no keyboard but you want to protect its guts from dust, cardboard comes to help.

I use it as a media player when I lay on my sofa if I don't want to use the TV.

You need to upgrade to greasy pizza box cardboard.

 

[Ruru]

You need to upgrade to greasy pizza box cardboard.

The greasy side downwards?

 

[Ahhzz]

The greasy side downwards?

makes for better thermo-electric heat conductivity*.....




*also known as "easier to catch fire as it heats from electronic components"....

 

[Apocalypsee]

You might try sticking them in a pillow or somewhere that maintains sound pressure similar to your ears and let them play at a reasonably high volume while you are work for a full week. Part of this could easily be very stiff cheap drivers needing to break in.

Holes appear to be for venting heat if that helps you get closer to understanding the efficiency level they were designed to meet. My guess is you will notice them getting quite warm.

I left it overnight playing all sort of music at two ticks above my listening volume while I put it on sponge with laptop brick holding them and I be damned. Today I removed the top hole and the graininess is gone! I hear it sounded better too some of the fuzzy background details is clearer now. Guess they didn't run them down just check they produce sound and onto the box it go.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

makes for better thermo-electric heat conductivity*.....




*also known as "easier to catch fire as it heats from electronic components"...

Thermal reconfiguration tool.

 

[micropage7]

not so ghetto just buying external hdd tray since i run out of hdd tray, remove the internal since i don't need the internal and done

and as usual, hella cables everywhere

 

[Jetster]

I'll make it fit

 

[de.das.dude]

I'll make it fit

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FORCE being visible is very apt lol

 

[micropage7]

and again how to void your warranty
for low end laptop having passive cooling solution is ok, just when it has limited grill all you can smell is hot plastic, so i drill some so the laptop will have better air

stock

masking time

mark it then drill the holes

done

 

[wNotyarD]

and again how to void your warranty
for low end laptop having passive cooling solution is ok, just when it has limited grill all you can smell is hot plastic, so i drill some so the laptop will have better air
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stock

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masking time


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mark it then drill the holes


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done

Not gonna lie, doesn't even look ghetto. Did it make them temps better, though?

 

[Hattu]

Years ago (in the era of PATA drives I think?) I had six HDDs in my case. There were room for two or three HDDs or something. Not six. I had some cheap Adaptec raid card.

I made two sheets of 2,5mm/0.10" thick aluminum at my work and put 4 HDDs between them. Then I hanged the whole monster with 3 sheets of rubber (two sheets up, one down, so that those HDDs won't swing/get damage when moving the case) and the another reason was to dampen the spinning/headseeking noise. There were fan or two before them. There were sheets of something self adhesive heavy material in side panels and part of the case. That thing was a back breaker! And quite silent.

If I remember correctly, I had 120GB for OS, one 200GB for workfiles and then 200GB and 500GB mirrors for backups/raid1.

Too bad I don't have pictures of it. There were some other mods with zipties and all. I think it was just before my 2600K-rig, maybe some 2500MHz Athlon or something. Can't remember. I think I had W2K then.

Oh, it was W2K for sure, as I had trouble with Vista Home and recognizing those W2K (pro?) made partitions after full system upgrade.

Lost part of my important backups, since Vista Home didn't support those W2K-made partitions. Had to use hex editor for FAT tables, to change one (1) bit in them! One mirror was readable after that, the another wasn't. Used some third party tool to combine those unrecognizable files, with random names.... What a mess... I bought my first network drive after that. And it failed also...

Long story, still mad about it.

I've made other mods too. Like making Sennheiser HD580 wireless/BT. I should have pictures of it somewhere.... Found one picture. BT receiver is Procaster BT-01 (~20€). Fun project.

 

[micropage7]

Not gonna lie, doesn't even look ghetto. Did it make them temps better, though?

since the cooler is passive it still pretty hot, but i feel the heat can escape more, than trapped behind the case like before drilled

 

[de.das.dude]

since the cooler is passive it still pretty hot, but i feel the heat can escape more, than trapped behind the case like before drilled

you can always use a cooling pad under it now. That mod doesnt look ghetto at all.

 

[micropage7]

you can always use a cooling pad under it now. That mod doesnt look ghetto at all.

yeah that's my plan, add cooling pad under it so the heatsink will have fresh cold air, it's low end and low power too but i dunno what's on the designer brain giving it no grill or something to cool the processor more

 

[Athlonite]

yeah that's my plan, add cooling pad under it so the heatsink will have fresh cold air, it's low end and low power too but i dunno what's on the designer brain giving it no grill or something to cool the processor more

yeah even a low end low power unit should have atleast minimal active cooling. Looks good though I'd have also drilled a few holes along the side and back to help with radiant airflow you cool air in the bottom hot air out the side/back

 

[NastyDjango]

rainy sunday project. AMD phenom x2 965 CPU, slightly OCd and UVd, cooled by an stock Intel fan ziptied on an stock AM3 cooler. (original fan dead)
4x 2GB 1333 ram OCd to 700mhz and slightly tighter timings. a 80GB and a 500GB WD HDD in Raid0. installed win10 LTSC. light OCd geforce 8400 GS with afterburner.
machine runs great. cant do much with it these days lol, but hey, it was a chill sunday with a few beers and lots of fun.
(PC is powered on by touching the two cable ends together because power button is broken on that old yellow case)

 

[lexluthermiester]

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rainy sunday project. AMD phenom x2 965 CPU, slightly OCd and UVd, cooled by an stock Intel fan ziptied on an stock AM3 cooler. (original fan dead)
4x 2GB 1333 ram OCd to 700mhz and slightly tighter timings. a 80GB and a 500GB WD HDD in Raid0. installed win10 LTSC. light OCd geforce 8400 GS with afterburner.
machine runs great. cant do much with it these days lol, but hey, it was a chill sunday with a few beers and lots of fun.
(PC is powered on by touching the two cable ends together because power button is broken on that old yellow case)

That system needs some TLC!

 

[wNotyarD]

View attachment 371341
rainy sunday project. AMD phenom x2 965 CPU, slightly OCd and UVd, cooled by an stock Intel fan ziptied on an stock AM3 cooler. (original fan dead)
4x 2GB 1333 ram OCd to 700mhz and slightly tighter timings. a 80GB and a 500GB WD HDD in Raid0. installed win10 LTSC. light OCd geforce 8400 GS with afterburner.
machine runs great. cant do much with it these days lol, but hey, it was a chill sunday with a few beers and lots of fun.
(PC is powered on by touching the two cable ends together because power button is broken on that old yellow case)

That jumpstart for power is the very definition of ghetto

 

[Jetster]

That is lovely