Ghetto Mods

[micropage7]

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

i feel if they want to make it passively cooled, they should give the product enough grill and big chunk of heatsink so it won't burn your lap

 

[de.das.dude]

i feel if they want to make it passively cooled, they should give the product enough grill and big chunk of heatsink so it won't burn your lap

This reminds me of my sis-in-law's laptop with an intel atom. It was a decade or so back, i was reinstalling windows and it literally burned my lap hahaha.

 

[Jetster]

This is the case I cut the hole in the top. Living room big TV added a RTX4060 to play GTA and it was over heating
so i took the filters out, seams okay now. I should turn those fans around lol I ordered two new ones

 

[:D:D]

When you want to upgrade your dummy DP connector EEPROM from 256B to 1KiB but don't have a SOT-23 handy and don't want to wait and order one because you have an oversized 8 pin one right now.

 

[NastyDjango]

and again its weekend. had some beers and built a Moster-Specs-PC:
G2010 on some gigabyte board. 2x4GB Corsair Ram + 2x2GB Random idk Ram=12Gb ram @ 700 Mhz OCd via Bclk. Some GT710 (slightly OCd via Afterburner) with broken Fan (does not spin anymore). so i mounted a Molex-Fan blowing onto the Nvidia and modded it to 7V. (12V way too loud). GPU cool and quiet now. i installed win11 24H2 LTSC on an 128GB Kingston SSD connected to the SATA3 port this mobo has. Computer runs as good as it can and does its job. not beautiful but not ugly either imo. its running OCCT atm to see everything is fine...

 

[Ruru]

Electric tape still works with cable tidying

Two PCIE 8pin -> 2x 8pin adapters.

 

[de.das.dude]

and again its weekend. had some beers and built a Moster-Specs-PC:
G2010 on some gigabyte board. 2x4GB Corsair Ram + 2x2GB Random idk Ram=12Gb ram @ 700 Mhz OCd via Bclk. Some GT710 (slightly OCd via Afterburner) with broken Fan (does not spin anymore). so i mounted a Molex-Fan blowing onto the Nvidia and modded it to 7V. (12V way too loud). GPU cool and quiet now. i installed win11 24H2 LTSC on an 128GB Kingston SSD connected to the SATA3 port this mobo has. Computer runs as good as it can and does its job. not beautiful but not ugly either imo. its running OCCT atm to see everything is fine...View attachment 372019

the spicy box is exposed for a reason? :O

Electric tape still works with cable tidying

Two PCIE 8pin -> 2x 8pin adapters.

that is some real automotive grade cable management. Thats how i fixed my motorcycles wireloom when the heat shrink dry rotted after 9 years of indian summers. Just put a ziptie at the end so it doesnt start undoing itself.

 

[wNotyarD]

that is some real automotive grade cable management. Thats how i fixed my motorcycles wireloom when the heat shrink dry rotted after 9 years of indian summers. Just put a ziptie at the end so it doesnt start undoing itself.

Could also use a self-amalgamating tape layer over the insulating tape. Works wonders even exposed to the weather.

 

[:D:D]

Nice tape work @Ruru

 

[Kyan]

Electric tape still works with cable tidying

Two PCIE 8pin -> 2x 8pin adapters.

It looks nice but will it not be gross when the glue start leaking to due the temperature of a pc ?

 

[de.das.dude]

It looks nice but will it not be gross when the glue start leaking to due the temperature of a pc ?

electrical tape is meant for high temp usage so i doubt.

 

[Ahhzz]

electrical tape is meant for high temp usage so i doubt.

It will be ok for a while, but most of them break down >200F, and experience tells me that after 2-3 years of repeated temps >100F, they will start the same process. Hopefully, you won't see that sort of temp on the cables, but make sure to let us know how it works out of you !!!t

 

[DudeBeFishing]

I prefer the cables loose so I can stuff them behind the motherboard tray. I've used corrugated sleeving as conduit for the front IO of an old PC. I think I still have that case laying around somewhere.

 

[KernelPanixc]

Shuttle DS61 was overheating as expected with that cooler design. Repasting the heatsinks not really changed temps, so i was gonna use old Xigmatek S82-DP but it is not compatiable with lga1155, so i ended up with printing janky 3d mount bracket. It was pain to screw nuts in to the bracket (cuz i just buy the 3d printer and im new to 3d modeling etc.) I was thinking finally it is gonna be looking sick, compact size, watercooled pc...

But it need more fan connections (AIO has 3 fan, 1 pump and 1 for the poor chipset) so added fan controller too. fan controller powered by dc adapter (soldered)



At this point compact size think is out of mind and i need a mSata to pcie x16 adapter

Dont mind the poor naked usb wi-fi dongle its just sticking around top of a stick

 

[micropage7]

haha.... taht's me again
replacing my laptop speaker with generic speaker, unfortunately the stock speaker is too small, so i need to cut more and fix the new speaker with hot glue

yea, it's gluey but after you put the bottom cover no one knows

 

[brinstar117]

This thread has brought me so much entertainment and joy seeing how inventive and clever the contributors have been.

I did this ghetto repair back in 2020.

This motherboard was sold as broken from a seller that said it died during a BIOS update and wouldn't POST afterwards. I found that the original EEPROM chip was dead and couldn't be flashed with an external programmer. I didn't have an EEPROM chip with the correct physical dimensions. I wanted to see if the motherboard still worked before buying a replacement chip. I used a physically larger chip and socket holder pulled from a different dead motherboard. After confirming the motherboard did indeed work I bought a replacement chip and got to do the same fiddly soldering again. I'm not that proficient with soldering but I've gotten a little better since then. The motherboard still works to this day, but it does look a lot less ghetto with the proper sized chip instead of one suspended in the air with janky wires.

 

[:D:D]

Had that same board and found my SPI programmer couldn't flash in situ so mounted it using the SPI connector JSPI1 so could easily be removed for SPI flashing.

Not the greatest of pics but hopefully shows what was done.

 

[freeagent]

This isn’t really a ghetto mod, but it is kinda ghetto..

I noticed my CPU fans were not able to hit their top speed, for awhile now.. thought maybe it was a loose connection because rpm would fluctuate by more than 150rpm and top speed was never achieved. So.. I wired my 3 case fans to the SATA powered controller that came with my Torrent, and an older Molex powered controller that I used on my Meshify C for my CPU fans, since I have 5.

Now my fans hit top speed and stay there within ~60rpm and the mobo lights are brighter too.

Also, love the performance of industrial fans, turns out the old man in me can’t stand the racket anymore.. just tolerate it for a day or so. So I moved back to consumer grade fans.

I gave all three fans a rub, that's why the RPM took a bit of a dip.. forgot to Zero the app after.. Power is way stronger than a regular fan header.

 

[y2faulty]

I hereby present you with my gpu support bracket :

 

[wNotyarD]

I hereby present you with my gpu support bracket :

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A Maxtor HDD? Been ages since I've last seen one of them.

 

[y2faulty]

a glorious 270gb Maxtor 6V300F0 bought in June 2006 . It spinned pretty much 8hrs a day for 15 years uninterruptly. It has 30gb I never partitioned I don't remember why, so 30Gbs of it are awkward virgins so to speak.

It stopped working a couple of years ago in my former built, but then I moved into this system and now seems to be working fine ?_?

it does groan and moan like an injured animal though.

 

[Jeager]

Unplug it and let him rest in peace maybe when it's still spinning !

 

[y2faulty]

that's the idea as soon I have sorted all the data on the Crucial T500, I'll just keep the 600gb WD (not that I need it, honestly) and the good old 128gb Crucial M4. Let him rest in peace!

Plus I have to plug another sata power cable just for him and that irks me a lot.

And better airflow from the bottom front fan toward the gpu.

 

[wNotyarD]

So, I had my old case (TT Level 20 MT) with a faulty power button and a busted power LED.

Did I have a spare LED with the same size and color? Nope. Did I have a spare microswitch the same height? Neither.
Enter pro-ghetto:

 

[KernelPanixc]

Did I have a spare LED with the same size and color? Nope. Did I have a spare microswitch the same height? Neither.

Ssshh its come with own spare power button already (Swap the reset button for power and leave the reset button faulty)