Ghetto Mods

de.das.dude · Nov 5, 2014

silentbogo said:
This summer I had to fix 2 netbooks for my friends. With 7 to 10" size, what kind of flexing are we talking about?
As an example, ASUS 1015BX was heating up to 90C on full load, while keeping ~40 idle (AMD C60 APU).
An AMD Turion-based notebook died on my hands, because cooling was the crappiest I've ever encountered in ASUS laptops (steel plate w/ bubble gum).
Same thing relates to HP DVxxxx notebooks, which helped to create numerous chinese products for cooling replacement/improvement.

they are indeed very bad on those you mentioned. i was working with an intel atom net book and it burnt my thigh!
that was the reason i avoided asus and HP. my samsung based np355 v5c has very good cooling. there is only one tiny hole for intake, rest seems to come through the top b/w the keyboard keys, which keeps the keyboard region cool when working! very neatly designed. plus chrome/nickel plated copper inside!

JunkBear · Nov 5, 2014

Cooling sucks and sometimes they put fans with higher internal resistance to make them turn slower for sound matter. Put a cheap made in china fan from ebay and cooling improve but also the noise.

micropage7 · Nov 6, 2014

JunkBear said:
Cooling sucks and sometimes they put fans with higher internal resistance to make them turn slower for sound matter. Put a cheap made in china fan from ebay and cooling improve but also the noise.

personally for my pc i dont mind as long as the sound not like boeing take off

and why dont we back to pics again :toast:

silentbogo · Nov 6, 2014

BACK TO PICS:
If any of you ever had Cubieboard/Cubietruck or any similar embedded system - you've probably encountered horrible WiFi reception and really lame and hard-to-access buttons.
Well... here's how far you can get with a piece of plexi and a bit of know-how.

agent00skid · Nov 6, 2014

A bit of fun.

Random Murderer · Nov 6, 2014

agent00skid said:
A bit of fun.

...I hesitate to ask, but what's with the plate covered in padlocks on top of the heatsink?

agent00skid · Nov 6, 2014

Random Murderer said:
...I hesitate to ask, but what's with the plate covered in padlocks on top of the heatsink?

The heatsink had a crappy plastic pin locking system, which didn't hold very well, so we used a plate of padlocks to hold it down.
We later upgraded to proper nuts and bolts mount.

Octopuss · Nov 6, 2014

That's proper ghetto stuff. lol

OneMoar · Nov 10, 2014

agent00skid said:
The heatsink had a crappy plastic pin locking system, which didn't hold very well, so we used a plate of padlocks to hold it down.
We later upgraded to proper nuts and bolts mount.

you NEED to use rubber washers to avoid a issue down the road you don't wanna damage a trace
I would get some flat rubber washers that are just a little bit bigger then the diameter of the nut
DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN!

agent00skid · Nov 10, 2014

OneMoar said:
you NEED to use rubber washers to avoid a issue down the road you don't wanna damage a trace
I would get some flat rubber washers that are just a little bit bigger then the diameter of the nut
DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN!

Probably should, but it's not so important these days. Newer hardware have replaced it.

And fan in PSU died? No problem.

[Ion] · Nov 10, 2014

You can't even be assed to open it up and replace the fan? :laugh:

agent00skid · Nov 10, 2014

[Ion] said:
You can't even be assed to open it up and replace the fan?

I actually think it was the fan control circuitry that broke. And one of the other PSU's that we used lost it's minor rails. Don't they just ooze of quality?

[Ion] · Nov 10, 2014

agent00skid said:
I actually think it was the fan control circuitry that broke. And one of the other PSU's that we used lost it's minor rails. Don't they just ooze of quality?

But you can still open it up and just wire the fan straight to the 12v rail...that's what I've done before with success.
And yeah, those sound like real great PSUs :laugh:

Sir B. Fannybottom · Nov 11, 2014

agent00skid said:
The heatsink had a crappy plastic pin locking system, which didn't hold very well, so we used a plate of padlocks to hold it down.
We later upgraded to proper nuts and bolts mount.

I-I think I'm in love! That is the most amazing thing I've heard all week

Misaki · Nov 11, 2014

agent00skid said:
The heatsink had a crappy plastic pin locking system, which didn't hold very well, so we used a plate of padlocks to hold it down.
We later upgraded to proper nuts and bolts mount.

I had same idea for cooler mounting when I had LGA775. Lower temperatures and BOX stopped flying around the case

(Seriously, I played Crysis 2 when computer shutted down. "What the fuck?". Look at temps. 120*C on desktop. Fuck. Opened case, BOX on GPU). Fuk U, Intel.

micropage7 · Nov 11, 2014

OneMoar said:
you NEED to use rubber washers to avoid a issue down the road you don't wanna damage a trace
I would get some flat rubber washers that are just a little bit bigger then the diameter of the nut
DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN!

yep, using plastic from shampoo or something
preventing is better

de.das.dude · Nov 11, 2014

agent00skid said:
A bit of fun.

i want to build a temple and worship that thing.

micropage7 · Dec 5, 2014

guess what it is?

a ghetto laptop cooler

fanless, easy to make, easy to maintain, non toxic and with life time warranty :toast:

xvi · Dec 5, 2014

micropage7 said:
fanless, easy to make, easy to maintain, non toxic and with life time warranty

100% post consumer recycled materials too! Eat it, Starbucks cup sleeves!

JunkBear · Dec 6, 2014

micropage7 said:
View attachment 60748
guess what it is?

a ghetto laptop cooler
fanless, easy to make, easy to maintain, non toxic and with life time warranty

That's so hipster!

Misaki · Dec 8, 2014

It hurts when CPU

(Actually, it works pretty well. Only downloading on 60Mb/s internet causes 100% CPU usage.)

micropage7 · Dec 24, 2014

not too pc related
easy cooling solution
my stabilizer got kinda hot and i forgot to give it enough airflow so before i re-arrange the things i need to cool it first
just using usb fan and a sandal as airduct

OneMoar · Dec 24, 2014

Misaki said:
It hurts when CPU
(Actually, it works pretty well. Only downloading on 60Mb/s internet causes 100% CPU usage.)

database woohoo just living in the database wooooOhooo
Qbittorrent would useless cpu then bitvomit

micropage7 · Dec 27, 2014

just clean up my pc and i dunno suddenly i hear plastic snap and i found my dvd button snapped :banghead:

than try to glue it again, i use plastic from shampoo bottle and stick it by using clear tape :toast:

*sorry for bad picture* :roll:

Misaki · Dec 31, 2014

#yolo

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