Ghetto Mods

[trickson]

Update on my Ghetto mod FX8300.
Took a fan from the Heatsink of an Intel CPU and well put it on the back to exhaust the air out of the case and of course installed another fan below making it even more Ghetto than before!

Still no sign of the crossfire cable I ordered 2 months ago!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Still no sign of the crossfire cable I ordered 2 months ago!

Ebay?

 

[trickson]

Ebay?

New egg!

 

[micropage7]

Update on my Ghetto mod FX8300.
Took a fan from the Heatsink of an Intel CPU and well put it on the back to exhaust the air out of the case and of course installed another fan below making it even more Ghetto than before!

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Still no sign of the crossfire cable I ordered 2 months ago!

But the fan looks pretty neat

 

[trickson]

But the fan looks pretty neat

thank you.

 

[Athlonite]

Update on my Ghetto mod FX8300

till no sign of the crossfire cable I ordered 2 months ago!

how many do you want I got several sitting here doing nothing but gathering dust

 

[trickson]

how many do you want I got several sitting here doing nothing but gathering dust

The tracking says it is out for delivery 2/12/2020 but the Blizzard we are in is making things hard I bet.
I just want the one.
This is the only system to have been crossfired and I can not find 2 TUF Asus crossfire vide cards so there is that.
I would LOVE to get all my rigs just stuffed with video cards! The MSI one can take 3 of them!

 

[Athlonite]

The tracking says it is out for delivery 2/12/2020 but the Blizzard we are in is making things hard I bet.
I just want the one.
This is the only system to have been crossfired and I can not find 2 TUF Asus crossfire vide cards so there is that.
I would LOVE to get all my rigs just stuffed with video cards! The MSI one can take 3 of them!

Pm sent

 

[Rithsom]

Greetings TechPowerUp users! This is my first post on here, so don't criticize me too much! (just kidding)

A few months back, I built this sleeper PC using the chassis of an old HP Pavilion 6736 (circa 2000). I think that it's ghetto in pretty much every possible way. Just see for yourself:

 

[freeagent]

That is awesome man! My first PC was a Pavilion with a P3 450. Looked like that but older and not as fancy

I love it.

 

[plat]

I especially like the "Features at-a-glance" feature on the front. So cutely misleading yet genuine.

 

[trickson]

OH man the windows Me sticker is EPIC!
wonder how man times the user called the HP help line! LOL It has a blue screen what do I do?

 

[Rithsom]

I especially like the "Features at-a-glance" feature on the front. So cutely misleading yet genuine.

I still have the old Celeron that was so proudly advertised on that sticker.

OH man the windows Me sticker is EPIC!
wonder how man times the user called the HP help line! LOL It has a blue screen what do I do?

When I saw that ME sticker, I just knew that I had to turn the system into a sleeper.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I think that it's ghetto in pretty much every possible way.

And you would be right! Still cool as hell though!

 

[trickson]

Update on my mod.
Put the LG Blu-ray back in it (took out the Cheep CD I had in it.
Wire harnessed the wires.
I also moved the exhaust fan.

 

[wolf]

Ghetto temp fan duct that is helping me create the 3d printed final model.

90 degrees off to the left so it can pull fresh air from the back panel, instead of pulling air heated by that warm 3080 under it, and will enable me to use the TG panel for a more effective air tunnel.

It's so effective the desire to just leave it is kinda real

Bonus ghetto point for the handheld fan jimmied in there blowing air across the 3080's backplate.

 

[Caring1]

My old Antec Sonata had a similar duct.

 

[Valantar]

I wish more cases had airflow ducts. Even if they are problematic in terms of compatibility, they help so damn much with cooling. And you can always leave it out if it doesn't work with your cooler.

 

[trickson]

Ghetto temp fan duct that is helping me create the 3d printed final model.

90 degrees off to the left so it can pull fresh air from the back panel, instead of pulling air heated by that warm 3080 under it, and will enable me to use the TG panel for a more effective air tunnel.

It's so effective the desire to just leave it is kinda real

Bonus ghetto point for the handheld fan jimmied in there blowing air across the 3080's backplate.

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Looks like Linus Tech built that thing. LMFAO!
What's with the fan blowing on the video card? Is that stock cooling? OMG
Is that a MAKE SHIFT cooling duct? I mean that is really good work there, You do have some skills just need a bigger case.
And OMG the cables in the back ground, Did R2D2 puke in the corner there?

 

[Valantar]

Looks like Linus Tech built that thing. LMFAO!
What's with the fan blowing on the video card? Is that stock cooling? OMG
Is that a MAKE SHIFT cooling duct? I mean that is really good work there, You do have some skills just need a bigger case.
And OMG the cables in the back ground, Did R2D2 puke in the corner there?

There's certainly no need for a bigger case - the NR200 with that fan layout has excellent cooling, and with the ducting avoiding the CPU cooler taking in hot air from the GPU I wouldn't be surprised if the whole build ran cooler than most similar mid-tower ATX builds out there.

 

[trickson]

There's certainly no need for a bigger case - the NR200 with that fan layout has excellent cooling, and with the ducting avoiding the CPU cooler taking in hot air from the GPU I wouldn't be surprised if the whole build ran cooler than most similar mid-tower ATX builds out there.

Don't be so sure.
First off side panel off, USB fan blowing on GPU/CPU area.
I mean even DR. Watson can see that there is more going on than meats the eye.
Just because he made a "Shroud" around the CPU doesn't actually mean that it is cooling the way one would think. In fact that is sucking air from inside the case and pumping it out through the shroud and out the back. SO close case and that becomes an easy bake oven.
Put the panel on run that thing full on bet it heats up like a toaster oven.
I know this is not my first rodeo.

 

[Valantar]

Don't be so sure.
First off side panel off, USB fan blowing on GPU/CPU area.
I mean even DR. Watson can see that there is more going on than meats the eye.
Just because he made a "Shroud" around the CPU doesn't actually mean that it is cooling the way one would think. In fact that is sucking air from inside the case and pumping it out through the shroud and out the back. SO close case and that becomes an easy bake oven.
Put the panel on run that thing full on bet it heats up like a toaster oven.
I know this is not my first rodeo.

You're misreading the image. First off, the side panel is off ... because they're taking a picture of the inside of the PC. That's kind of a necessity, no? Secondly, a lot of testing (Optimum Tech, among others, has done a lot of work on comparing various airflow layouts in SFF cases) has shown in cases with a similar airflow setup that taking off the side panel hurts thermals as it ruins the wind tunnel effects of top- and bottom-mounted fans forcing vertical airflow through the case. Third, the fan layout of the case tells us that the duct is an intake, not an exhaust - unless they've gone completely off the rails and flipped the fan on their NH-L12 it's a downdraft cooler, so it blows towards the motherboard. The duct directs cool(er) air from behind the case into this fan, through the cooler, before having it exhausted up the top of the case. This avoids the CPU cooler taking in air that's been pre-heated by the GPU, as that's where the intake fans of the case are placed. So with this layout, both CPU and GPU has access to plenty of cool air from entirely outside of the case, while the hot air is being forcibly exhausted up through the top of the case. The only thing really going against any of this is the fan blowing at the backplate of the GPU, which likely won't work very well with the side panel closed due to it fighting the top-mounted exhaust fans for airflow (fitting a smaller case fan closer to the GPU backplate would likely work better, though I wouldn't think it's actually necessary).

This might not be your first rodeo, but it's plenty clear that you're not very experienced with cooling layouts in SFF cases. Experience from mid-tower cases tends not to apply due to the very different layouts.

 

[trickson]

You're misreading the image. First off, the side panel is off ... because they're taking a picture of the inside of the PC. That's kind of a necessity, no? Secondly, a lot of testing (Optimum Tech, among others, has done a lot of work on comparing various airflow layouts in SFF cases) has shown in cases with a similar airflow setup that taking off the side panel hurts thermals as it ruins the wind tunnel effects of top- and bottom-mounted fans forcing vertical airflow through the case. Third, the fan layout of the case tells us that the duct is an intake, not an exhaust - unless they've gone completely off the rails and flipped the fan on their NH-L12 it's a downdraft cooler, so it blows towards the motherboard. The duct directs cool(er) air from behind the case into this fan, through the cooler, before having it exhausted up the top of the case. This avoids the CPU cooler taking in air that's been pre-heated by the GPU, as that's where the intake fans of the case are placed. So with this layout, both CPU and GPU has access to plenty of cool air from entirely outside of the case, while the hot air is being forcibly exhausted up through the top of the case. The only thing really going against any of this is the fan blowing at the backplate of the GPU, which likely won't work very well with the side panel closed due to it fighting the top-mounted exhaust fans for airflow (fitting a smaller case fan closer to the GPU backplate would likely work better, though I wouldn't think it's actually necessary).

This might not be your first rodeo, but it's plenty clear that you're not very experienced with cooling layouts in SFF cases. Experience from mid-tower cases tends not to apply due to the very different layouts.

Okay I would hate to disagree with Linus Tech or you.
You certainly won me over I am simply wrong.

 

[Valantar]

Okay I would hate to disagree with Linus Tech or you.
You certainly won me over I am simply wrong.

I mean, you're entirely welcome to present arguments or data to the contrary, but all my experience with SFF builds and time spent on SFF-focused forums does contradict what you're saying entirely. There's no reason to expect that build to run particularly hot at all. There are generally no one size fits all solutions in SFF PC building, and tuning your cooling to your specific components is always the best way forward - for some builds, negative pressure is the best, for some, forced unidirectional airflow is the best, etc. The CM NR200 with a fan layout very similar to this (but a side-mounted AIO CPU cooler) in OT's testing delivered GPU thermals identical to the much larger high airflow Phanteks P500A, though CPU thermals were about 5 degrees warmer (the P500A also had a 360 AIO rather than a 280). Given that neither CPU was even close to thermal throttling, and noise levels were essentially the same, I would call that no difference. Have you actually built anything in a modern SFF case, or read any reviews? They have come a long way in the past 3-4 years.

Also, who mentioned LTT?

 

[freeagent]

That's pretty cool man. I stuffed an SLI X58 rig with an H100 into an Antec Sonata once.. It looked really sweet but it was pretty intense to try to cool. I like the duct idea. a 3D printer would be nice to have.