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Ghetto Mods

I have been very busy and tired lately no time to show my mini-itx build and also to test around my mini-itx build to see how well it work.

So originally my heatsink fan for my itx build is facing down having air blowing toward the motherboard. The psu would draw fresh air outside facing out. I thought it was all dandy until I fired up prime95 test run. My CPU quickly heatup to high temperature for my G3258. Put my finger into the case and it seems like the hot air is stuck inside the case.

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I have to flip the psu over to suck air from the cpu heatsink and the heatsink fan should be flip over to blow hot air out. So I tried that. Unfortunately it is not design that way and the fan blades get caught in the heatsink and can't move. I need to something to raise the height of the fan to prevent it from touching the heatsink. I thought of using ice-cream sticks. Tried one stick on each side. Still too low, tried two sticks and after some adjusting it work! Well it work for the moment the fan spin without getting caught in the heatsink. Seem fine thought of putting the case back in. As soon as I wanna do that the ice-cream stick is knock over! As I hit the heatsink.

Tried the ice-cream stick in a few configurations glueing two stick and trying different orientation nothig solve the issue of the ice-cream stick dislodging and knocking out.

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Left for a few hours I found another solution which is I have left around. Found this! Rubber feets for furniture! This things are used to prevent noise and evenning out chairs. Stick two on my fan and eventually 4. Put the fan back on the heatsink and it worked! No knocking over cause it to slip out!

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I might need to do the same. I initially had my PSU installed this way in my LianLi Q11, but my CPU HSF is blowing downwards.
GPU temps are wonderful, but my i3-6100 roams at 36-40°C idle / 80°C load (!)
Same heatsink (Deepcool HTPC-200) was good enough to cool down an AMD A6-5400K inside an SFF case, and did not go over 65°C during 40 min. stress test.

First I blamed very high ambient temps, but it was raining last week and the air cooled down to 20's, but CPU was just as hot.
 
Actually not very ghetto. Well done
 
MIRTAZAPINE said:
I have been very busy and tired lately no time to show my mini-itx build and also to test around my mini-itx build to see how well it work.

So originally my heatsink fan for my itx build is facing down having air blowing toward the motherboard. The psu would draw fresh air outside facing out. I thought it was all dandy until I fired up prime95 test run. My CPU quickly heatup to high temperature for my G3258. Put my finger into the case and it seems like the hot air is stuck inside the case.

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I have to flip the psu over to suck air from the cpu heatsink and the heatsink fan should be flip over to blow hot air out. So I tried that. Unfortunately it is not design that way and the fan blades get caught in the heatsink and can't move. I need to something to raise the height of the fan to prevent it from touching the heatsink. I thought of using ice-cream sticks. Tried one stick on each side. Still too low, tried two sticks and after some adjusting it work! Well it work for the moment the fan spin without getting caught in the heatsink. Seem fine thought of putting the case back in. As soon as I wanna do that the ice-cream stick is knock over! As I hit the heatsink.

Tried the ice-cream stick in a few configurations glueing two stick and trying different orientation nothig solve the issue of the ice-cream stick dislodging and knocking out.

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Left for a few hours I found another solution which is I have left around. Found this! Rubber feets for furniture! This things are used to prevent noise and evenning out chairs. Stick two on my fan and eventually 4. Put the fan back on the heatsink and it worked! No knocking over cause it to slip out!

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An elegant and cheap solution to a common problem......:clap:
 
Something fishy about this setup, @droopyRO :wtf:
 
Droopy, you can slide the fins off the heatpipes on that style heatsink, they aren't soldered by the look of it. then take tin snips to cut it to the size you need to get around that port. Does the heatsink sag, it shouldn't if there is enough pressure, or is the fishing line to keep those heatsinks attached?
 
Figured I should show some of my ghetto'ness. I threw this WC kit together a long time ago (back when 939 was popular and AM2 just came out) for a system, thought to try it out like this and now I move it around for different motherboards every now and again. I know the flow is backwards through the block, but it still cools pretty good :laugh:. I've had it dangling around, bent to hell right next to the connections, no leaks ever.


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Never leaked, not even once. It was meant to be temporary, thus I never bothered cutting the tails off. The coolant dates back to original setup, although I do have to top it off once every blue moon. It is my home brew secret recipe. contains some orange highlighter.
 
The madness continues.

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MIRTAZAPINE said:
I have been very busy and tired lately no time to show my mini-itx build and also to test around my mini-itx build to see how well it work.

So originally my heatsink fan for my itx build is facing down having air blowing toward the motherboard. The psu would draw fresh air outside facing out. I thought it was all dandy until I fired up prime95 test run. My CPU quickly heatup to high temperature for my G3258. Put my finger into the case and it seems like the hot air is stuck inside the case.




I have to flip the psu over to suck air from the cpu heatsink and the heatsink fan should be flip over to blow hot air out. So I tried that. Unfortunately it is not design that way and the fan blades get caught in the heatsink and can't move. I need to something to raise the height of the fan to prevent it from touching the heatsink. I thought of using ice-cream sticks. Tried one stick on each side. Still too low, tried two sticks and after some adjusting it work! Well it work for the moment the fan spin without getting caught in the heatsink. Seem fine thought of putting the case back in. As soon as I wanna do that the ice-cream stick is knock over! As I hit the heatsink.


Left for a few hours I found another solution which is I have left around. Found this! Rubber feets for furniture! This things are used to prevent noise and evenning out chairs. Stick two on my fan and eventually 4. Put the fan back on the heatsink and it worked! No knocking over cause it to slip out!
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It would make more sense to increase the ventilation in to the case, perhaps by drilling holes, and leave the CPU fan the correct way to cool the motherboard and CPU.
It appears to be basically a closed box where air can't get in.
 
Caring1 said:
It would make more sense to increase the ventilation in to the case, perhaps by drilling holes, and leave the CPU fan the correct way to cool the motherboard and CPU.
It appears to be basically a closed box where air can't get in.
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That won't help much in his case, unless PSU is removed completely. My case is very similar to his, but it also has a huuge 160mm fan. Running it at max 900rpm made no difference to my CPU temps because the air was moving from the front and then split between PSU and CPU fans... Only PSU is blowing the air out of the case, while CPU fan in normal installation pulls it towards the board, where it stays trapped. :cry:
The only problem with his case, is that there is no intake fan. Mine is a bit longer, and it has a hefty 160mm low-speed fan in it. I was thinking about something similar (perforated front panel), but I soon be moving to a cozy air-conditioned place. :toast:
 
And now, semi-mod of the day: a revived Quidway S2300-series switch.
Unlike the previous pair of DES3200 switches, this one was killed by water. Of course, PSU is blown to pieces, and the replacement is not available in any of my local distributors (even the expensive uninterrupted PSU w/ battery backup is out of stock).
First, I'm going to test it for a few hours to see if I actually fixed all the water damage. Tomorrow I'll take it off life support and attempt to install a PSU from an old DVD player.

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AUTOgod said:
ooh! ooh! i have one! (2 actually):

at first, everything appears normal:
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then you look closer at the chipset:
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an old case fan, with the cover of a calculator and a cd case, stuck together with glue, and the help of a blowtorch and a screwdriver.

then you look behind the front panels:
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a radiator stuck in with sticky pads and a 3.5" to 5.25" adapter.

not the most ghetto ive done, but still fairly ghetto :)
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i want that case
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Retro* said:
My ghetto-modded HR-03 GTX on my 280. The photo shows the Enzotech nb heatsink, which I had to file out the mounting holes a bit, bolted to the card. There is also a collection of various Enzotech and other brands of smaller heatsinks, depending on the clearance to the heatpipes, motherboard's northbridge cooler, etc., on the card's ram chips and vrm's.
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Next shot (see the right side back corner of the card) shows the card installed with my patented (jk) "sag-eliminator" which is an old cathode ray tube I cut down to size and put some plastic washers under it for fine-tuning. It is kept in place by just resting on a bolt through an existing corner hole in the card and attached to the bottom of the case with the velcro pad that came with it. This allows for quick adjusting and removal of the card. I used three old Thermaltake low-profile copper sinks under the HR-05SLI NB cooler, to which is zip-strapped a slimline 80mm blue-glowie fan.
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The two 120mm Skythe fans are simply secured to the heatsink with plastic zip-straps. I also cut a 120mm wire fan guard in half and bolted each half to the exposed halves of the fans to keep any stray sinks from dropping off into the fan blades and being launched back into the videocard or elsewhere:D
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nice
 
first wearable PC prototype

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Jetster said:
first wearable PC prototype

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Holy cow bro, I busted a gut when I first seen that........Bhahahahahaha:roll:

Brings a whole new meaning of going to a LAN party. :laugh:
 
Someone needs to recreate this
 
@Jetster

you need the "Ghetto Bods" thread
 
So the fan on my 7870XT died a little while ago and after not being able to source a replacement, I decided to try and make my own.

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Maybe you can spot the mistake above?

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My mistake was the hot glue. I completely forgot how hot these cards get and the whole assembly fell apart after 5 mins of benchmarking.

So I figured i'd just do something a little more simple:

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Unfortunately, it's about 1 mm to wide to fit snugly in the space so I have to have it at an angle. It means I lose the use of my PCI Audigy 2, but it cools the card pretty much the same as the original and is a lot less damn noisy.
 
You can take 1mm off the side quite easy with sandpaper.

Its a great "resurrection" nonetheless.....:toast:
 
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