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Ghetto Mods

Here's a nice little mod.


Yes, that's a 7600GT cooler on a 7200GS using the stock push-pins. :laugh: Runs cool as hell, it was idling at around 60c before, now it's closer to 35c, with no more than 45c full load.
 
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Well, I guess these count.
First set of pics is my cooling solution for my nVIdia GeForce MX 420, which I was worried would overheat from OC'ing. The fan is the cooling fan from a dead i486 DX2, and I still had the mounting screws. I connected it directly to a molex, by shoving paperclips in it! :D
It works fine, and my PSU hasn't exploded.
The wires are connected by twisting the metal together, and then cellotaping it. It works. :rolleyes:
That took about 10 minutes to make.:roll:

Next piece of work is my laptop stand: It is made from a paper binder book, with slots cut out for the fan and hard drive airflow. It raises the screen about 1 1/2 inches, and puts the keyboard at a nice angle. Five minutes of finding the book and then cutting it up, and my laptop is cooler than ever!:toast:
 

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Not really that ghetto, and I know many of us have done this, but decided to post it up anyway. I just got some new fans for a back-up case I plan on using in the next few months or so, and with no motherboard to rig up to turn it on I turned to the handy paper-clip jerry rig. :toast:
 
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my ghetto fan :p

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Ive done alot of "ghetto" mods but dont have pics for them. I do have these though which arent that great.
Ghetto case modding
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Fan to cool off overheating socket A
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120mm Canon printer fan zip tied to case and 92mm Vantec Tornado sitting ontop of HDs.
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90mm fan ziptied to Zalman cooler on highly oced FX 5600
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Tilted my CPU fan so my northbridge gets some air(works too!)
 
here is mine i took my AMD Athlon 1800+ stock heatsink and drilled holes and cut it and mounted it on my 9600XT with some screw fromt the hardware store lol


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Hey guys just registerd here and thought I'd bump this thread a little, I have put a 2 extra fans in my system, 1 down where there was just a grill opening for air to go in/out I have mounted a fan there to exhaust all the hot are my 2 9600GT's [in SLI] put out. I also put a little fan over my 4GBs of ballastix Tracer ram because they can get quite hot!

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can't let this thread die so, I was having some problems, basically a hissing sound in the audio in my htpc because I guess theres alot of emi in there so I made an emi shield for my old audigy se using

Cardboard(lol)
EMI Foil
EMI Fabric
Aluminum
Antistatic Foam

post a pic later
 


Post Service Limited Edition case :rockout:

was supposed to be a mockup for a plexi case I was making, and unfortunately, it turned out better than the final case.
 
Wow man thats awesome!
 
i'm a bumpin'
 
i think my second pc is entirely ghetto lol
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I just did this becasue a friend requested it.

I guess he didnt think id do it or something.
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hf that was literally my second computer! just to make sure pentium 166 w/ mmx? native 16m mem? 2 available mem slots? hahahaha!!!
 
its now a p4/celeron with 1gb ram :),
i think what you mentioned was what got ripped out lol. i need to go find the bits,
 
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is it me or is that psu pcb a bit warped? might wanna loosen the screws a bit
 
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is it me or is that psu pcb a bit warped? might wanna loosen the screws a bit
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seems that way...and it is.

look behind the left heat spreader...there is a shim. short of making custom screws, i had to bend it. they were too short. when i tightened it down, the left HS lifted off the big HS. I put that shim in and it stiffened it up. on the next one, i will make custom screws and a backing plate.
 
could maybe screw the psu hs direct to the big hs, just drill a couple holes, add some as5 for better heat transfer hehe,
but pretty good job so far, hope the rest goes well.
 
Solar power..I charge this battery in the sun and run a 32w flouro and 35w soldering iron. runs for about an hour
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