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Post Your own or Found Ghetto / DIY style mods here:D

EXAMPLE : FOUND 3870X2

 
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iv cut half the fan casing off my cpu fan to cool the ram,
 
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Hehe nice one keep them coming!!
 
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80mm fan on my 9600 pro :D

It is held on by wire ties wrapping around the whole card.

@case mod gallery you can see my 2x5.25" bay dual 80mm intake mod. Not quite as ghetto, but it's just stuffed in the holes. Nothing holding it on. The piece of metal across the top just keeps em together
 
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FOUND: Ramsinks

 
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Nothing wrong with ghetto modding if it works lol
 

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Are those coins soldered together?:eek:
 
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I took my old laptop apart and ran it from inside a cardboard box once with a table fan blowing on it. I dont have pics tho :(
 
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I took my old laptop apart and ran it from inside a cardboard box once with a table fan blowing on it. I dont have pics tho :(

Thats about as Ghetto as it gets i suppose lol but hey if it works thats the main thing:laugh:
 
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I use blue-tac to hold a fan in place, where the emplty PCI slots are under my VGA card, no pics tho.:)
 

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rubber bands hold the cooler/fan on an old 7500 which holds the WR in AQ3 :D




the fan is held onto the gemini II by some tin wire
 
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This was my brother's "ram cooler", jus a beverage box with a 40mm fan, sorry, i don't have pictures of it installed... :eek:
 
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Sorry, didn't atached the pictures... :banghead:
 

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I don't like to call them Ghetto mods, I like to call them Elite mods because people used their brain to make something themselves.
 
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But beat this one - t3h best benching WC :roll::roll::roll:



 

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I wish I had 15$ to replace this lol
 

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I had those! Its in the pile of Logitech headphones that broke in 3 days! Friends never let friends buy logitech headphones!
 
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I had those! Its in the pile of Logitech headphones that broke in 3 days! Friends never let friends buy logitech headphones!

There really nice, the sound quality is great and the mic is good too but they broke only after a few months :( I dont need to replace them yet tho lol
 
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