Post your "Ghetto Mod" pics

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2.5gb switch was getting hot....
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jlbenedict said:
If I am judging by historical data.. then I would say that fan wire is too clean...too much heat shrink tubing.. not enough bare wire showing
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Thats not heat shrink its just twisted wires together with some electrical tape on it. I cut off the 4 pin connector of the fan and found an extra power supply to just splice em together for a bit.
 
Upgraded my 2u box with a nvme drive (had to install esxi to make that work as the computer doesnt support uefi). Had to improve the tape job to cope with the blistering speeds.
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Stole the zip tied heatsink from the box to keep my 3900x cool and ghetto as I need to rebuild the water loop.
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cdabc123 said:
Upgraded my 2u box with a nvme drive (had to install esxi to make that work as the computer doesnt support uefi). Had to improve the tape job to cope with the blistering speeds.
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Stole the zip tied heatsink from the box to keep my 3900x cool and ghetto as I need to rebuild the water loop.
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I thought I saw it all, until I stumbled into this thread and low and behold, I see a PC case made out of cardboard, NVME & HDDs taped, and wire tied and an all-around general mess that makes the OCD in my brain want to explode. Kudos, for when I now look into the messiest PC I have in operation, it looks immaculate in comparison... LOL
 
rhkcommander959 said:
foil tape, wire nuts, breaker bar you stole from someone, 10/10 *chefs kiss* what's the arduino doing?
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I use it to control the LEDs in my room and desk. The left power supply is the test bench, I do abunch of projects with microcontrollers and fpgas on that side


I need to fix my desktop, looking at these pictures, that desktop could use some love. Or more zip ties. I did just install a new 3d printed reservoir.
 
I don't do anything too ghetto these days, but I figure I'd go ahead and post this thing I did a month or two ago, with the O11 Air Mini that's now housing my old 5950X:
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I wanted at least some air back where the HDDs were at so... my extremely sleep deprived galaxy brain idea was to just take some cardboard, tape it together till it was at the right height, and then use some sticky velcro so it would stay in place and be removable if need be. The fan itself is then also velcro'd onto the cardboard plank.

I'm also going to have to do something similar to this new case, I think. Some of the HDD temps are getting into 48C, and that's just no good. Ideal operating temp for a 3.5" HDD is about 35-45C afaik. I like keeping my HDDs cool.
 
cdabc123 said:
Upgraded my 2u box with a nvme drive (had to install esxi to make that work as the computer doesnt support uefi). Had to improve the tape job to cope with the blistering speeds.
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Stole the zip tied heatsink from the box to keep my 3900x cool and ghetto as I need to rebuild the water loop.
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This is gloriously ghetto. I award you 5 food stamps and 2 more for the extra effort.
 
My dell XPS420 "custom water loop" I did in like 2018.
Yes there is a Peltier between the CPU and "waterblock".
There were 2 radiators, one behind each of the OEM fans neatly tucked into the OEM fan mounts. I think the small one was an 80mm rad and the big one was a 120.
Not sure what CPU I had but it was probably one of my Core 2 Quad Extremes.
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sharknice said:
CPU fan broke so I just taped a case fan onto it. It worked fine.

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Lets see if I can figure out what cards you have in there based on the backs

Top one looks like a linksys network card
second card looks like a soundblaster live
Bottom card looks like a voodoo 3

Not sure what slot 1 board it is though, Gigabyte used those gold northbridge heatsinks but it doesnt look like one of theirs.
 
Starfalcon said:
Lets see if I can figure out what cards you have in there based on the backs

Top one looks like a linksys network card
second card looks like a soundblaster live
Bottom card looks like a voodoo 3

Not sure what slot 1 board it is though, Gigabyte used those gold northbridge heatsinks but it doesnt look like one of theirs.
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Sound Blaster Live!
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D-Link network card
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I don't remember what the mobo was, it might have been gigabyte.
 

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Some shots of my little Shuttle SB61G2 with a custom CPU/GPU loop.
Why did I do this? Idk im crazy.

IIRC it should have
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Prescott SL8K2
GPU: PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 1gb DDR2
MOBO: Shuttle FB61/FB65V4.0
DISK: Some Corsair 120gb SATA SSD
RAM: It should have 2x1gb OCZ Platinum sticks in it but I swap RAM in it alot for DDR1 overclocking.
PSU: Original Shuttle 320w (i think it was 320w)

Res is an Alphacool DDC 5.25 Bay Reservoir with some cheap "DDC" pump.
The back radiator is 92mm with the smaller one in the middle being 80mm.
Flow order should be Pump > GPU > 80mm rad > CPU > 92mm rad > Res > Pump
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I had RAM waterblocks that I wanted to use too but you can see how much clearance there is for the RAM.
This thing is actually a really good overclocker too, iirc it could hit around 240mhz FSB when paired with good RAM.
 
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