Ghetto Mods

[jaggerwild]

MSI Z97 board came with a burnt IC chip which was caused by the PCI-e socket being ripped off then powered on(the pins touched). replaced the IC chip, used a heat gun pulled all the PCI-e 2 pins, boom works! Not so much a TRUE GHETTO MOD as I knew it would work.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

A while ago i was a twat and managed to make my Corsair H100 pump go "phut" and start smoking. I was really pissed off, it only cost me 25 quid second hand and i was chuffed to bits with it. It kept my X5670 suitably cool at 4.5ghz I hated the look of the pump......


it reminded of the sign for a Gents toilet

So i did this

Then i blew it up by fucking around in the case and snagging a cable which i then hurriedly stuck in the wrong hole........... The only cooling solution i had at hand was the stock fan and cooler off an FX8350 - it worked but, not well and it was very loud.


It looked like this

i didnt like it at all and i added some weight for better contact

Then............someone very kind from here ( who is a Knob but will remain nameless) sent me a Asetek 510 LC which didnt perform as well as the H 100) so i took the double rad off the H100 and stuck it with the Asetek pump.

It looked like this

Roll on to today....Sunday and i took the H100 apart ( just for something to do) and removed the pcb that controls the fans and lights

hmmmmm, only this bit is cooked

Fuck it i will just rip it out and test the pump without it

Works fine.



When i have the time and inclination ( and antifreeze) i will put the double rad back on.

It looks like this now

One of the feautures of H100 is that you can plug in and control 4 fans by pressing a button on the pump........i never plugged any fans in there anyway....too difficult to hide all those cables so losing the pcb is of no consequence to me.



Happy days........back up to 4.5ghz soon

 

[dorsetknob]

( who is a Knob but will remain nameless)

Sticks and Stones may break my Bones but i know people that put welsh ponys heads into bed's ( they learned from the Romans ).

 

[erocker]

PSP analog thumb pad connected to an Arduino Pro Micro ATmega32u4 and molded to a Logitech Extreme 3D pro.

 

[micropage7]

got a UFD but the slider doesnt work well

 

[HUSKIE]

Got my dell optiplex 990 cooled with thermalright arrow silver sb-e cooler.
Took the dvd drive and laptop hdd out to make a room for the huge cooler. Intalled 2tb 3.5" hdd.
Temperature with stock cooler was terrible idle 42°c
Now with the huge cooler
25°c idle full load 35-37°c
Please see pictures!

i5 2400s 2nd gen
8gb ram
Dell inc. motherboard without pci-e slot shame
Intel HD GPU

I bought this system for £15 quid
Seller says not working. But it's 100% working.
So The seller is not working. Lol

 

[AsRock]

Looks a little BIG for the case .

 

[HUSKIE]

I want to put that on my diy test bench but the Motherboard is not design for atx or matx cases. So I put the big cooler instead.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Further to my pump exploits as detailed above.

Today i had a stroke of luck, i went into my shed and found a length of 6mm i/d airline off a broken footpump so i have installed my H100 pump with a single rad. I havent got antifreeze to add so im using just plain water till i go to town on wednesday.

Its great to be back up to 4.5ghz.......

 

[HUSKIE]

Forgot to share my modified asus rog g20 sff pc with 4790 with Corsair h80i aio cooler and gtx 780 gpu with external 500w psu to feed the 780gtx. Purpose to beat the heat from stock cooler.
Look!

 

[dorsetknob]

Guess you Raised the Case Resale value

 

[deflipe]

When you're ugly out, But you have good feelings

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I am a twat.

I pulled them off by accident. I had already pulled off the glue that fixed them to the housing so it is all my own fault. .....

@Luke Whitton is going to solder them back on for me.

 

[natr0n]

I hate travel distance in controllers, so I made some shims with my trusty white roll of electrical tape.
Also, I had Dpad shimmed previously...It's pretty much shit without some mods.
This is a generic 360 pad btw.

 

[jboydgolfer]

PSP analog thumb pad connected to an Arduino Pro Micro ATmega32u4 and molded to a Logitech Extreme 3D pro.



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i gave out a couple of those to a fellow "scrap loving" TPU'r not too long ago iirc....

 

[erocker]

The real PSP pads are the best. I've since replaced mine with an authentic one and the movement is much smoother.

 

[micropage7]

When you're ugly out, But you have good feelings

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haha sleeper
i want to build that but im kinda poor

 

[silentbogo]

My other neighbor broke his laptop: both housing and display hinges were broken, screwholes damaged beyond repair, and LVDS cable was not in good shape either...
After an unsuccessful attempt at restoring display mounts with epoxy, I finally found a solution: wood screws!


This is a Lenovo G580, what's worse - it's a version 20157, which is famous for crappy case, broken hinges, cracked displays and other stuff...
... and makes it impossible to find replacement parts, because there are no new ones, and the used parts usually suffer from initial stages of that same damage.


And there is another thing I wanted to show.
Not sure if it qualifies as Ghetto Mod, but it sure does for recycling household items as tools of trade.
Old socks and toothbrushes are irreplaceable for cleaning PCBs after soldering (or cleaning "dust crust" from laptop fans):

 

[Ahhzz]

My other neighbor broke his laptop: both housing and display hinges were broken, screwholes damaged beyond repair, and LVDS cable was not in good shape either...
After an unsuccessful attempt at restoring display mounts with epoxy, I finally found a solution: wood screws!
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This is a Lenovo G580, what's worse - it's a version 20157, which is famous for crappy case, broken hinges, cracked displays and other stuff...
... and makes it impossible to find replacement parts, because there are no new ones, and the used parts usually suffer from initial stages of that same damage.


And there is another thing I wanted to show.
Not sure if it qualifies as Ghetto Mod, but it sure does for recycling household items as tools of trade.
Old socks and toothbrushes are irreplaceable for cleaning PCBs after soldering (or cleaning "dust crust" from laptop fans):

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I should have taken pics.. I just had a lenovo U530 in the shop that had the hinges broken off of the lid and the frame. I had to epoxy 10 of the 12 nuts, 5 of which did not have enough surrounding plastic to hold, so I had to drill through the lid and the case above the keyboard to remount the hinges. Finally got everything solid enough to hold opening and shutting, and the BCD had crashed, and could not get it rebuilt for anything, and had to reload 8.1. Win7 was ok, but everything from 8 forward made it much harder to recover the OS....

 

[EntropyZ]

This is my ghetto ATX build (yes that is a TT Core V21 uATX that I am abusing because I am stupid like that) that I made up a dozen minutes ago because I was bored, morbidly curious, tired from sleep deprivation, and not to mention all the products that are based on storage based silicon have almost doubled in price in my country! But then, I remember it could be even worse. I think I can deal with this... Send help.

For some of you wondering that's a letter bag that has bubble wrap inside it. I'm using it as an insulator so I don't short the motherboard, because surprise, pretty much all mounting holes won't line up in any orientation.

Everything is going where it should, thankfully all of my cables are more than a metre long. The hard drive is just shoved in with the PSU cables underneath the motherboard mounting plate.

The card plate is hitting the bottom? Put a calculator under the motherboard. Solved.

And by praying to some people that I like here whose names I won't mention. The computer still boots.

The build is in my specs. I'm using it until AMD decides Ryzen 3 and 5 is good enough for release. I hope this is the last time I do something like this. It's just not right. Everything about my life isn't right, to be brutally honest. Going to try install some legacy ATi\AMD drivers and get some sleep afterwards.

 

[Ferrum Master]

I did some too . My LAN party Box got a cheap china water block... 750Ti simply doesn't deserve more lol.

 

[micropage7]

I did some too . My LAN party Box got a cheap china water block... 750Ti simply doesn't deserve more lol.

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you got nokia there, it would last longer than your current rig

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I modded a thingy into a wotsit

 

[jaw shwaa]

I modded a thingy into a wotsit


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That's a nice doohickey you got there

 

[infrared]

I bought a couple of cheap TEC's to play with after I found my old Swiftech Apogee waterblock and figured I could frankenstein it together with the Silverstone cooler from the QX9650 rig, and a deafeningly loud 120mm delta fan. Handily the Rad has 4 ports, so i made connected in an alternative route back to the reservior, skipping the radiator, and clamped off the return from the radiator. I didn't even need to drain it!

The TEC is rated for 150W electrical power, and going off the confusing graphs on the spec sheet it should be pumping ~90-100W of heat from the loop and outputting ~250w of heat on hot side, not enough to cool the system while under load, but if you turn the pc off and let it chill for a while you have time to boot up and run a quick benchmark before coolant temp rises. I got it down to 12C at one point, and it was still dropping gradually.

I really need to clear some space to set this all up properly, and eventually get it built into a decent case. (edit, not with the ghettochill)