Post your "Ghetto Mod" pics

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My Technoredneck air conditioner (patent pending)

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-Tad
 
Sorry i cant post a real pic. I hope it still counts. Our data center is under level 3 security.

Scan a badge + finger prints + pass a guard to get in. No pictures are allowed to be takin inside. Lots of rules to follow. :(

Any ways we had to set this up last night

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My contribution!
I had to have some kind of support for the heavy Corsair HX 1000W power supply, so i uhh.. yea. Self explanatory
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I"m going out on a limb that is was the only one he had available...
 
Omegas is correct!
I used to have the 4870x2, and i knew it needed a serious amount of power. Soo, instead of buying just enough, i bought more than enough xD

I can have this forever.. im pretty much set for anything powerful you can throw on me ;)
 
Don't know if this has to be hardware only but here one I did to my truck.
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I must say that this was very cheap and it really helped too. :)
 
LOCO LAPTOP said:
Don't know if this has to be hardware only but here one I did to my truck.



I must say that this was very cheap and it really helped too. :)
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I'm gonna laugh when a pebble goes thru the grill and into your engine.
Thats totally a ghetto mod though :p
 
SoAndSo said:
what are you using as a filter? or do you want to blow your engine up?
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K&N filter + Built in metal screen behind the air filter.

And if the engine blows then good reason to swap it for a 4.7L v8 or a get a new 5.7L v8. ;)
 
It can look pretty if you spend enough time on it. Which reminds me, I need to get some of those fabric bands. The bike tubes transmit far too much noise.
 
Took me ages to find a suitable enclosure for the power supply for my new hi-fi amplifier, so until that gets delivered (& is hopefully big enough...) it lives in a Converse box, complete with cooling holes & warning labels.

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Jodiuh said:
It can look pretty if you spend enough time on it. Which reminds me, I need to get some of those fabric bands. The bike tubes transmit far too much noise.
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Stretch Magic is what you need.

You can find it at any Michael's or any other arts & crafts store in the Beads section. May sound weird, but this stuff is the best for reducing HDD vibration. I can barely hear my suspended Samsung F1 these days. :)
 
This isn't nearly as complicatedly ghetto as some of the mods in this thread, but here it is anyway:

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I used slivers of 3M double-sided mounting tape and a piece of regular clear tape to mount the stock Q6600 fan onto my HD4870... First I had to break 3 of the 4 mounting clips off of the fan. The fan is hooked up to my Sunbeam Rheobus fan controller and it's pretty darn quiet, even at 100%. My maximum GPU load temp while folding has dropped from 67C to 64C.
 
JaYp146 said:
Stretch Magic is what you need.

You can find it at any Michael's or any other arts & crafts store in the Beads section. May sound weird, but this stuff is the best for reducing HDD vibration. I can barely hear my suspended Samsung F1 these days. :)
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I would think that would be louder than fabric. Have you seen the little bands that come w/ the Antec P150's? The newer ones? They're already loops so I wouldn't need to tie a knot either.
 
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fig 1) i now have cheaper internet at home, it's a vodafone pay-as-you-go dial-up mobile broadband. i got it, mainly because i can't afford a landline yet and orange mobile is expensive.

fig 2) i found a 3GHz P4 Pundit R in a skip. It had a label stating, 'FAIL, cannot stop BSOD'. took it home to find it had a low profile heatsink with an aluminium gasget as a heat transfer. after applying it's (first?) thermal compound, applying some ghetto air channelling and some fans, it now hangs at 100*C on max load.

i only robbed the pundit because my last pc died, and i was desperate for a new PC.
i will upload other pics when i can.

about the quiet materials argument,
every material has it's own audio properties, the best acustic silencing (and still ghetto) is one of them very soft and spongy spounges for washing cars with, just dampen it first to soften.
 
foxtrotniner said:
Before when I got this Lian Li A77B full tower case, there was this tacky useless fan monitor on the front. It wasn't even a standard 5.25" bay, it measured slightly less than one and half inch. Bought a Lian Li standard cover and used a jigsaw on it.

BEFORE:
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Taped up with 2 kinds of tape and used a sharpie to cover up the silver spots where I messed up.

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Finished product, pretty ghetto behind it though, don't push it, it'll fall right into the case :p

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why not mount a laptop optic drive there
 
Heavy_Equipment said:
Not much else to show really...
hub wired
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and the reservoir with pump submerged
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I put the 6 machines in to start, with hopes of adding more later, but it never happened. The 2 on top stayed air cooled. The big issue was hard drive and board temps. Lack of airflow in that cabinet and the combined heat of everything was hard on old parts. The doors had to stay open and I had to run a fan in front to keep it happy. I'd recommend an open rack to anyone else, just be careful to insulate/isolate any metal.

I built 8 headless AMD crunchers out of leftovers, and bought the small obsolete drives and PCI vid cards from a surplus guy for about $20. I monitored everything from my desktop with TightVNC. The biggest kick in the junk was buying the water blocks and that big Eheim. That loop was almost 20' long (boards were plumbed in parallel using plumbers manifolds) and the Eheim worked flawlessly. Priming the loop was a challenge though.
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why not have this going to a household rad for heating the room
 
Jodiuh said:
I would think that would be louder than fabric. Have you seen the little bands that come w/ the Antec P150's? The newer ones? They're already loops so I wouldn't need to tie a knot either.
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They aren't. SPCR users continually report that Stretch Magic is the best material for vibration reduction, bar none ... and they're elitists about this sort of thing. :p
 
would have to be either a really powerful pump or use a water to water intercooler.
 
if you put a water to water heat exchanger on the side leaving the floor going back to the heater your computer would be pre-heating the coolant going to the heater. Not sure how well it would work, but i'm sure someone has tried it by now..
 
no the idea is the pc itself dose the heating the floor loops is what cools the system bareing in mine it will be cooling a e8500 and 2 8800gtx's
 
Hi everyone, this is my first post here,
Well the name of my PC is OCZEXTREME cause i invented that nickname in my online game acounts, as Warcraft3 and on Steam too,

So i hope u would like to see my mood, there is noting fantastic on it, but was my first mood,
some pictures of it:

i started using this block, i buy it from a friend o´mine, and i started to buy this Barb conectors on a machinery sale off, was the cheaper i find for 8mm ruber.tube:
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Than i picked up my old nasty case of Medion AG, the original manufacturer of my pc. i started cutting my lateral and get some acrilic stuff. then i put the door-pusher of a car to hold the box for transport:
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Then i had build my own frontal, kinda a milytary style o_O the power on button and a switch for water punp, cause i used a 220v Eheim 600l/h
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i find this radiator in a old truck, is quite good cause of is 160mmx160mm radiator ness, and has about 60mm thickness
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then i mounted it all in the case, but with a few space, cause of the microATX form case:
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a closer view in the acrilic window:
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then has the punp and reservoir doesn´t fit in the case, i had to put it on top just next to the PSU unit, i try that location cause was the best spot to put it on.
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Than as the UV neons are realy expensive, i pick a pair of 12v 4w bulbs blue coloured ( the same we use on cars) and i aplied it one in the bottom of the PSU and other near the HDD drive to create the blue efect:
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I used wattercooling at 8mm internal tubbing in the CPU and in GPU, with a lot of eficience compared to the stock aircooling of my E2140 intel and my Powercolour 4730 512md DDR5.

I hope you like what did you see. But i an doing a new project with high-flux material. 1/2" and a Big 240 radiator that i picked in the junk. Well is quite good see it :
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a new ideia i started a few hours ago:
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for extreme airflow inside ... i will update soon
 
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Enough lurking, it's time for my first post :3

I found these 2 spare PCI brackets today and thought that i have to do something useful with those.
Because I haven't found any proper stand for my headphones, I figured that I could get a temporary headphone hanger.
No glue, tape, soldering or anything similar needed. :)

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Sorry if there are grammar errors, English isn't my first language :p
 
Zidak said:
Enough lurking, it's time for my first post :3

I found these 2 spare PCI brackets today and thought that i have to do something useful with those.
Because I haven't found any proper stand for my headphones, I figured that I could get a temporary headphone hanger.
No glue, tape, soldering or anything similar needed. :)

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4047/bighx.png

Sorry if there are grammar errors, English isn't my first language :p
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If the only thing keeping those brackets together is friction, it's not going to hold.
 
Well, first off this is my flash drive that I use daily for school:
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My main machine is in a PC-A05B, so I wanted to keep the clean look of the front. Instead of using the "Stealth" drive cover Lian-Li offers, I decided to just rip off the sides of the included empty drive bay covers. I used foam tape to stick it so that I can still press the eject button.




That's all for now, since I don't have any pics of my old cardboard box PCs :D

Oh yeah and this is my only USB 2.0 hub:
 
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