Post your "Ghetto Mod" pics

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i performed the "punch" mod on my ex rig. i only did a small dent to teach it to obey, i didnt want to kill it. thumbs up to quimz for owning his biatch. :D ever try the hammer mod?? i dont recommend it.
 
Endurance Man said:
Do you honestly believe he punched the case and it folded in like that :rolleyes: , i call BS, but thats my opinion.
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Ok, try it yourself, rather than a foward punch, hammer down on the top of your case with the side or your fist, it will fold like paper.
 
Endurance Man said:
Do you honestly believe he punched the case and it folded in like that :rolleyes: , i call BS, but thats my opinion.
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yes... if you cant fold steel that thin with a punch then you're a wussy :p
 
A friend of mine hammer modded his rig when he read his girlfriend's email (gotta love cookies and auto sign-ins!) and found out she was cheating on him.

He gave it to me post hammer mod when it was "completely broken and junk." I removed the mobo from the tray and voila, his junk was my free Athlon 900 rig. Although I soon realized that his rig was basically junk like he said, just it wasn't really broken.

Does my GF3 Ti200 with the AXP heatsink epoxied to it belong here? :p You may laugh, but that thing overclocks like a s.o.b. even though it does take up 2 pci slots! :eek: :eek:

...and it also allows me to claim the world's only known passively cooled GF3. For what that's worth :rolleyes:
 
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ghetto hole for another 80mm fan to cool my DC-DC powersupply

 
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We had a crap case in my friends basement, so we chunked it around some and then through some spare parts in it. It worked.... once.
 
Damn, man, opening a PSU is dangerous... :eek:

And to the ghetto case, haha, that'd be a lot of fun.
 
ikellensbro said:
My BFG 6800nu has a 2 fan heatsink (doesn't cool any better than nVidia's stock hsf :rolleyes: ) and one of the 40mm fans will start clicking every now and then because of dust or whatever. Usually a simple tap will get it running smoothly again, but last week I tapped it a little too hard and it broke. I tried usuing an 80mm fan pointing up toward the card while leaning on my hard drives, but that didn't make much difference and my card was running at 80*C and artifacting a ton in WOW (even after I took it back down to stock speeds, it would still artifact, stutter, or lock up in WOW). The solution? Use another 40mm fan (duh):


Two rubber bands are holding it on pretty well, and a couple crushed packing peanuts keep it from vibrating on the heatsink (the fan is also controlled by a rheobus, its inaudible at 7v compared to everything else).

Nice ghetto loop there Elysian, somehow I forgot to post mine here when I had it running 3 1/2 months ago, so here's the pics now :D











The 5 gallon reservoir.


???Heatercore with 2 92mm fans and a card board and duct tape (mainly duct tape) shroud.


How the pump (Eheim 1048) and heater core fit in the reservoir.


The loop in all its glory.
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You have achieved Maximum Ghettoness!! Excellent setup!
 
...unfortunately, there wasn't a camera around. I was at a data center performing one night, pulling guts from a few machines and putting in others, and I had a SuperMicro board that wouldn't fit the 2U chassis I wanted it in - the redundant power supply had a little protrusion that kept the motherboard from fitting.

Well, I had to get that machine up and running. Looking at the offending corner of the motherboard, there were no traces that ran under it. If I could just take off that corner... but I had nothing with which to cut it. Finally, I decided there was no other way... I bit the corner off of the motherboard.

Yes, I bit it. And it took some work. Trying to take the corner off of a fiberglass sandwich isn't an easy thing. And it worked - I got all of the hardware in, and the machines back up and running well before business hours the next day.
 
My mod wasnt flashy, it was practical!

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Of course it only lasted a month or so before i realized it stopped... err... working.




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I assure you my RAID5 array does not use this method to secure the drives. I have since learned to use twisty-ties instead of rubber bands. They dont melt, and havent caught fire yet either!
 
I think that's the first time anyone's used popsicle sticks...at least in a while.

Let's see more G[H]etto mods now that this thread's been linked off the front page :D
 
JustLong said:
I recently put together a enw PC, I got everything but the case on time and couldn't wait to start setting it up. My favorite part is the wood to make sure HDD didn't short on the metal of the CD ROM. Also I used the brass standoffs to raise the mobo off the table enough to plug in the video card.
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man, you dont need standoffs for the mobo, just unscrew the hex screws from the pci retention plate and the vid card won't touch the ground
 
So I managed to lose the fan mounting brackets for my XP90. Being the sheer genius (scarcasm) that I am, I decided to come up with another way to mount the fan.

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Thats right, hair scrunchie things. Works well, aside from the fact that the fan sags a bit and does not sit centered on the heatsink. I left it like this for a while until today when swapping out some memory, I decided to fix it. Notice the gap highlighted in white in the photo above.

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The fix was easy enough... slide the fan back up in place where it should be... then I took a plastic knife, cut an inch long piece from the end of it, and wedged it between the bottom fins. This way, the fan rests on it and is held properly in place.

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:)
 
Great article by Overclockers.com today: Ghetto TIMs!
http://www.overclockers.com/tips1214/

Surprisingly, ghetto alternatives only did about 5* worse than burned in AS5, if I ever get caught without any TIM, I'll probably try one of the options listed, just not on any hardware I would really hate to destroy.
 
You know, when I started this thread, I thought I'd get a few laughs, but I have no idea it would get this kind of response and get linked to the front page. You [H] guys are great. Thanks so much. Now let's see how G[H]etto you all can be!!
 
First off, sorry 'bout the image quality in the upcoming pics. My mum bought me one of those Danoz Direct "High image quality" mini digital cameras.

This is my other PC's heatsink fan. I couldn't find any proper screws, so I used wood screws. I have hi QI.
for some reason, I can't have this pic as a pic...so I'll link to it.
here we go.

This is my shitty $15 Thrustmaster (hehe) Firestorm controller. This is how it started out.

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My brother and me decided the black needed to be white and the silver, blue, so I started sanding. I never finished...
 
Wow, did that thing fly off if you didn't hold onto it tight enough? :p
How much of an OC did you get on that thing? All those fans and heatsinks had to make some difference beside making you deaf D
 
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Budget Watercooling:
This PC was built in 2001 and surprisingly still works.

System Specs:
Originally - AMD Athlon Slot A 500@850mhz, 1.85v
Later - AMD Tbird Alot A 700@975mhz, 2.05v
Asus motherboard (Irongate chipset)

Waterblock:
Old 486 heatsink, sprinkler elbow joints, clear perspex offcuts and a lot of epoxy - $AU4

Cooling:
Oil radiator from a Holden, couple of fans, Tupperware container, caketin, cheap fish pump, sprinkler joints and plastic tubing: $AU80

Fanbus:
two state LEDS, switches, project box, wire and a lot of soldering: $AU25
 
animosity said:
We had a crap case in my friends basement, so we chunked it around some and then through some spare parts in it. It worked.... once.
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Did that thing get shipped by UPS, or FedEx? :D :D

:p :p
 
God_Of_Death said:
these are a few years old. ran this rig for almost a year.


do i win a cookie :D
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Man, i'd think you could make moonshine with that rig if you put some effort into it. :D :D
 
NerveGas said:
...unfortunately, there wasn't a camera around. I was at a data center performing one night, pulling guts from a few machines and putting in others, and I had a SuperMicro board that wouldn't fit the 2U chassis I wanted it in - the redundant power supply had a little protrusion that kept the motherboard from fitting.

Well, I had to get that machine up and running. Looking at the offending corner of the motherboard, there were no traces that ran under it. If I could just take off that corner... but I had nothing with which to cut it. Finally, I decided there was no other way... I bit the corner off of the motherboard.

Yes, I bit it. And it took some work. Trying to take the corner off of a fiberglass sandwich isn't an easy thing. And it worked - I got all of the hardware in, and the machines back up and running well before business hours the next day.
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OMFG ROFLMFAO

HAHAHA How's that taste? lol.
 
Almost a year ago I got a new 6800 card, and with a bit of widening of the holes in the video card (and a couple spare pieces of metal to try and fashion a bracket from) I was able to mount the Radeon-based Maze4 on it to watercool the hell out of it. I was glad my drilling didn't wax the card, luckily I did no damage and the thing still works perfectly to this day.

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An old dual PSU shock hazard in a supermicro 350A. The top power cord ended up being bent so hard it shorted out making the case ground hot intermittently, not to mention I had to cut the over mold down so far to get the top back on.




EDIT: Just noticed, yes that is an ancient original GeForce videocard, ph34r the DDR powah!
 
Back when I had a 400MHz AMD K6-2 (running at 450, of course), I couldn't keep it cool during the summer so I'd run it without a cover. So I built a cover that went down over the sides and also held my keyboard tray (aka an old removable shelf) a couple of inches above the 120mm AC fan which was my new CPU cooler. Yes, that's wood panelling on the side. This got me a mention on the main page under the heading "blown wood."

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For another project, I wanted to put some 120mm fans in some 80mm holes, so I made some custom ducts out of plastic drinking cups, scrap paneling, and hot melt glue. During the same project, I also decided that my PSU needed an intake fan.

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Once, I needed to drill a 4" hole but only had a 2" hole saw. So I just drilled 4 holes in a nice clover shape.

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Here I am using a TEC module I bought for CPU cooling to create an actual cooler. Held together with wire nuts and hot melt glue. The Radio Shack power supply I bought for it couldn't handle the amperage, so I used an old AT power supply.

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I had a UPS which kept overheating, and of course the batteries didn't last long enough. So I wired in a pair of external-mount fans and also put a couple of bolts through the case so I could hook up a pair of trolling motor batteries with jumper cables for extra long run-time.

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Finally, I wanted to add an extra fuel tank to my R/C car, but didn't want to drill any holes or invest in the proper mounting kit until I knew it worked. So I used the existing screw holes to tie down some very thick copper wire which I bent into an approximation of a fuel tank mount. Worked pretty good, but every day I'd have to bend the tank back into place.

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Just realized that my sig is waay out of date. Must update soon.
 
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