Ghetto Mods

[m4gicfour]

http://www.dx.com/c/computers-networking-399/hardware-parts-313/cooling-gear-333?page=2

DX (see link) is about the only etailer I know of that stocks low profile universal GPU sinks, and they're cheap... but quality is a huge unknown.

Water cool it with an external radiator.

Pfft. Noob.

Dual ApogeeXT cpu blocks sandwiching a 400W TEC, with the cold side of the loop to the card, utilizing an EK-VGA Supreme HF on the GPU and dual 360mm fatrads in push-pull on the hot side.

On the down side, he'd definitely need glycol in the line.

 

[Misaki]

I think that we can count it as ghetto

Seriously damaged hard drive that I'm going to recycle, 1 core cpu from 2005, 1.5gb of ddr 400mhz, x800xl and windows 8.1 update 1. Well, works good. Only HDD needs to be replaced and maybe better GPU, but I think that X800 can run 1280x1024 with good speed.

1080p is definitely too much for X800 XL 256MB DDR3 256Bit (she doesn't reorganizes herself in the new situation). BitComet eats 23% of CPU:

And a clean system:

 

[Athlonite]

Thanks Misaki I was wondering how well win 8/.1 would go on older hardware I plan on putting it on an Asus CH4f + PII 965 + 4GB DDR2 1066 and a couple of 500GB HDD's in raid0 and an old AMD HD5770 1GB card I have lying round so from the sounds / looks of it it should perform reasonably well

 

[Frick]

Couple it with a x1950pro and you can run Crysis on medium settings!

 

[AsRock]

Our Roku 3 was crashing every so often so made some changes some time ago and it's ran without issue ever since.

I just thought it was about time i shared .

Added some heatsinks to it the silver one is bigger than you might think all so the mesh was originally got for RC car mods but thought it be good for this too as it will help the heat from the heat sink.

If you look carefully it's placed in the gap of the heatsink and is bent so it pushes against the top and made sure to remove any little bits that could fall of it to make sure the thing dont get fried lol.

Hope you like .

 

[micropage7]

my friend's notebook has symptoms like this

first i think it may relate to heat or graphic card memory
and i check the paste, its dry but i forgot to bring thermal tape, i use aluminum foil to fill the gap between the heatsink and the processor

i use double tape to hold the foil so it wont move around, and so far so good but it aint improve graphic too much. it looks nearly dead end coz related to hardware

 

[Doc41]

my friend's notebook has symptoms like this
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first i think it may relate to heat or graphic card memory
and i check the paste, its dry but i forgot to bring thermal tape, i use aluminum foil to fill the gap between the heatsink and the processor
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i use double tape to hold the foil so it wont move around, and so far so good but it aint improve graphic too much. it looks nearly dead end coz related to hardware

looks like it could be from the display cable?, had a laptop that did almost the same and was a faulty cable

 

[micropage7]

looks like it could be from the display cable?, had a laptop that did almost the same and was a faulty cable

i have checked the cable and its fine, i may plug out everything to make sure

 

[xvi]

What's the verdict on using foil like that as emergency TIM?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

So i was surfing around ebay and came across this...

Not too shabby

 

[Athlonite]

^^ That kinda reminds me of my own little fan mod I had to do to both my HIS HD5770's they use cheap nasty fans that are
a: A non standard size
b: can not be re-lubricated
c: Can not be bought of the shelf to replace
d: can not take them apart without causing damage to the fan itself

 

[micropage7]

What's the verdict on using foil like that as emergency TIM?

he.. he.. actually its for filling the gap between the chip and the heatsink and i put thermal paste on it so i guess it works well but too bad its from the hardware, so i set it on low and nearly black and white
the rest of it is normal

 

[silentbogo]

i have checked the cable and its fine, i may plug out everything to make sure

This is most likely due to chipset or IGP overheating. I had to reflow chips on my old laptop and add some cooling to fix it.

And here is my Ghetto Mod. Cubietruck with 7dBi antenna! Got my WiFi quality up from 1/5 to 4/5 and now I can actually see hotspots further than 2m from my desk.
All it takes is $5 for antenna and RP-SMA connector, piece of Plexi and some superglue!

 

[micropage7]

This is most likely due to chipset or IGP overheating

first i think about the same, its overheat and when i checked it doesnt over heat at all so its from the chip

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

So i was surfing around ebay and came across this...

Not too shabby

how much for it? I'm actually willing to buy that

 

[silentbogo]

first i think about the same, its overheat and when i checked it doesnt over heat at all so its from the chip

Temperature deviation causes BGA contacts to loosen or get damaged over time(micro-fractures in solder points). So even if it is not overheating right now, it still needs reflow. You will need to provide cooling to slow down damage in the future. This summer alone I had to fix about 8 laptops due to the same problem, and the main cause of this thing, is that most of laptop manufacturers (especially Lenovo, HP, Dell and ASUS) are trying to save money on cooling systems.
How can you cool a 35W CPU with steel plate and bubble gum?

My old laptop still freezes or has artifacts, when i run WebGL applications or even light 3D Games, but it does fine in CPU-intense applications, like compiling or software image processing.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

how much for it? I'm actually willing to buy that

Here

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

Here

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, that guy is like $20 too high

 

[Peter1986C]

"This was used in a mining setup for about 1 year." So it may artifact within a year from now too. That stuff is heavy on the VRAM and VRMs, as far as I know.

 

[micropage7]

Temperature deviation causes BGA contacts to loosen or get damaged over time(micro-fractures in solder points). So even if it is not overheating right now, it still needs reflow. You will need to provide cooling to slow down damage in the future. This summer alone I had to fix about 8 laptops due to the same problem, and the main cause of this thing, is that most of laptop manufacturers (especially Lenovo, HP, Dell and ASUS) are trying to save money on cooling systems.
How can you cool a 35W CPU with steel plate and bubble gum?

My old laptop still freezes or has artifacts, when i run WebGL applications or even light 3D Games, but it does fine in CPU-intense applications, like compiling or software image processing.

yeah i just think about reflow, but i think it kinda risky since i have no experience on reflow
and after several hours it looks normal, at least my friend can use his laptop again

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, that guy is like $20 too high

$20 to high? You simply can't put a price on ghetto mods.

 

[silentbogo]

yeah i just think about reflow, but i think it kinda risky since i have no experience on reflow
and after several hours it looks normal, at least my friend can use his laptop again

It is actually not too hard. Just don't use generic heatgun: either get a temperature controlled one, or try to find a rework station and don't forget about soldering flux. I'm using really cheap($40) Baku 858D.

 

[silentbogo]

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, that guy is like $20 too high

That's dirt cheap! I'd buy it right now and even pay full shipping and beer money, if it was international ...

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

That's dirt cheap! I'd buy it right now and even pay full shipping and beer money, if it was international ...

Theres a fellow on here selling one for $60 that isn't all stabbed up. $50 if you have over 2k posts and 500 thanks

 

[xBruce88x]

Did you remember to apply your MX-4 (or even better, IC Diamond for SUPER LEET PERFORMANCES AND SUPER LEEEEEEEET public CEO spazzouts)? Next time, you should probably throw a peltier device on there, or even better, an all-custom watercooling system.

I expect you to be releasing instructions for overclocking very soon [stares expectantly]

I sense a little sarcasm here so i'll explain again why i did this mod... the amp cuts off at random when you increase the volume (therefor the load on the amp) due to an overheating issue. I found out that its probably due to a cap or two leaking. adding the heatsinks has helped a little but it still cuts off at higher volume. Probably time to just get a new setup really.

nice to see such sarcasm after spending a couple weeks in the hospital /sarcasm