Ghetto Mods?

[cozwin]

Anyone done any interesting ghetto mods they could post for a interesting read/sight.

Stuff like cutting up heatinks for cooling
Using ruber bands as hd mounts etc.

[Jamestuk]

ooh yes this does sound interesting! unfortunately I've not done anything ghetto myself...

[inCore]

I've done a couple, dunno how ghetto they are but they aren't, what I would call, bourgeoise mods. I'll post some when I get around to it later today.

[smee]

Well, I did a ghetto mod for my sister.....
I called it Ghetto-a-PC (pronounced GET-HER), she needed a PC real quick so I did this:

System spec's:
Socket 370 1000Mhz PIII Toluando (or whatever that series is called)
ASUS TUV4X Mobo (excellent mobo for PIII's, btw)
An old ATI card
512MB RAM like 168 Pin I think...
20GB ATA HD
350W PSU
LITE-ON DVD Burner
Case: some card board box's :)
Misc: Zip-ties and Duck tape (no screws...;))


http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/4627/cimg4677pl9.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2766/cimg4681gt1.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/6628/cimg4682be3.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8808/cimg4685rn6.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1737/cimg4690db5.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2138/cimg4687bs6.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2528/cimg4688lm3.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/9471/cimg4689cx2.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/2066/cimg4694jw8.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3089/cimg4696qk6.jpg
Here it is on her desk :)

hehe, it lasted for a month or so until the mobo died on me :rolleyes: now she's got a more modern dell that I fixed up.....
I can't help but laugh, it was fun :rofl: :rofl: :ROTF:

[MichelinGuy]

Smee, that's überghetto! :eek: Was your sister happy with it? :p:

[smee]

Smee, that's überghetto! :eek: Was your sister happy with it? :p:

Haha thanks! Well, when I showed it to her she was like "what the heck is that?!?!?" and I told her it was her new computer and she was like "ummm, it's temporary right?????"
lol, she didn't really care, just as long as the computer worked.... :D

[inCore]

Nothing that I ever post will be as ghetto as smee's creation but here's some stuff anyways:

Here's a computer that I made 2 years ago. It was designed to lay flat on surfaces but when I got a new computer, it was demoted to a standing secondary computer on my desk.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Ghetto1-1.jpg

The harddrive is being held up using an aluminium frame which is taped to the case wall and held up using the white foam stuff. As said, it's supposed to lay flat on the table so I had to make a few modifications.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Ghetto2.jpg

The PSU is held up by the tiny little piece of wood in one of the corners - can't wait to wake up in the middle of the night from the sound of my PSU destroying the rest of my computer.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Ghetto4.jpg

A view from the front, standing on its side on my desk.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Ghetto5.jpg

And lastly, the stickers that can be found on the front.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Ghetto6.jpg


It should also be noted that the lower optical drive is in an aluminum bracket system whilst the top one is once again fastened using tape and the frame around the hole to the outside.


Another ghetto mod is the GPU cooler which I made a thread about:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=181787


inCore

[cozwin]

haha awesome posts so far keep them going.

love the cardboard box pc :P
reminds me of my dads friend who built a pc around a 2by4 piece of wood

[STEvil]

rubber bands work great to hold fans over top of ram.

[boqonx]

That wooden case has the potential of being a real tight project i think.

[inCore]

Thanks boqonx. I put some serious work into it around 2 years ago but the deadline approached (was a school project) faster than I hoped and I couldn't do some stuff that I would have wanted to do.

For example, the cables are just thrown in there and it's impossible to remove the graphics card right now, without removing 9 long screws as well as more than a meter's length of glue. Things like that were hard to solve under time pressure and considering that I was 16 and that it was my first computer build ever (I had only had crap such as HP and Compaq before), it came out pretty decent.

[BullGod]

Well, I did a ghetto mod for my sister.....
I called it Ghetto-a-PC (pronounced GET-HER), she needed a PC real quick so I did this:

System spec's:
Socket 370 1000Mhz PIII Toluando (or whatever that series is called)
ASUS TUV4X Mobo (excellent mobo for PIII's, btw)
An old ATI card
512MB RAM like 168 Pin I think...
20GB ATA HD
350W PSU
LITE-ON DVD Burner
Case: some card board box's :)
Misc: Zip-ties and Duck tape (no screws...;))

Here it is on her desk :)

hehe, it lasted for a month or so until the mobo died on me :rolleyes: now she's got a more modern dell that I fixed up.....
I can't help but laugh, it was fun :rofl: :rofl: :ROTF:

You win by default.

[tiro_uspsss]

Well, I did a ghetto mod for my sister.....

u re-define ghetto :yepp: :p: :clap: :rofl: :up:

[karbonkid]

The PSU is held up by the tiny little piece of wood in one of the corners - can't wait to wake up in the middle of the night from the sound of my PSU destroying the rest of my computer.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Ghetto4.jpg

That's actually really elegant... I love it :up:

[Jamestuk]

@inCore: I love the CCFL or whatever it is (bubbles?) thats just thrown in there. not attached to anything or even straight haha!

[HotGore]

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c123/HotGore/PIC_00272.jpg

Here is one I did along time ago to my old x800xl.

[bgd73]

Here is my ghetto mod. It was quite unnecessary, but did it anyway...
(I love the CRT for seeming endless precision) this is a 17 inch monitor, weighing in at 65 pounds (according to shipping)
I hope the text in photo is ledgible, I don't want to type it out. :)
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/old%20subaru/mv700HsinkNet.jpg

the inspection sticker underneath the heatsink is now thermal paste, remove the screw from heatsink, and sticker should be like new to read...
I added this after the bi-yearly cleaning that takes the house fire appeance off of the plastics inside, and for those thinking this 50 dollar monitor is getting cheapskated, I paid 540 dollars (without shipping) in 1999...

Long Live The CRT (especially late 1998 and newer, with the pci power standard)

[Maarten-NForce]

Lol, what about using an aircompressor for blowing away all the dirt in there? :P

[karbonkid]

Lol, what about using an aircompressor for blowing away all the dirt in there? :P
Not ghetto enough... you gotta use a bike pump!

[cozwin]

Not ghetto enough... you gotta use a bike pump!

lol god how ghetto are you do you not buy fans and just blow on chips all day lol.... or hamster wheel connected up to a manual fan that turns it...

[Viper9201]

Well this is mine, I call it a custom airflow redirection system. Its some paper taped together, and taped to my Freezer 7 / 80mm case fan for more airflow :p:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y234/Viper_999/DSC00388.jpg

Not bad for 10 mins work! Lowered temps around 1c idle and 3c load, so quite pleased! When I was making it, the paper was held in place just by the suction alone, which made it much easier and worked well as a proof of concept :rofl:

Not sure if its the best way to introduce myself to the forum but hey, at 17 I can't throw around the little money I have so you just have to have sympathy!

[WrigleyVillain]

Not sure if its the best way to introduce myself to the forum but hey, at 17 I can't throw around the little money I have so you just have to have sympathy!

Heh, welcome and no worries. :) Yes, it's XtremeSystems but we can also appreciate any useful DIY mod/hack/tweak/jury rig

Hence this thread, for example. :D

[xoqolatl]

Not sure if its the best way to introduce myself to the forum but hey, at 17 I can't throw around the little money I have so you just have to have sympathy!
I spy a G80 GTS in your rig, it's surely not THAT little money :D

I thought of making similar ducts from glass fiber and epoxy glue, the kind they use to fix boats and similar things.

[Sam__]

Not extreme ghetto but i strapped a socket A hs to my 7900GS and it did wonders. load temps down from 60C+ to just touching 50 :D
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z25/sam__07/P1010002s.jpg

[cozwin]

Well this is mine, I call it a custom airflow redirection system. Its some paper taped together, and taped to my Freezer 7 / 80mm case fan for more airflow :p:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y234/Viper_999/DSC00388.jpg

Not bad for 10 mins work! Lowered temps around 1c idle and 3c load, so quite pleased! When I was making it, the paper was held in place just by the suction alone, which made it much easier and worked well as a proof of concept :rofl:

Not sure if its the best way to introduce myself to the forum but hey, at 17 I can't throw around the little money I have so you just have to have sympathy!

i spy a artic cooling fan :P haha d/w i love there cases myself.

[Viper9201]

I spy a G80 GTS in your rig, it's surely not THAT little money :D

I thought of making similar ducts from glass fiber and epoxy glue, the kind they use to fix boats and similar things.

How you managed to tell that appart from all other GeForce 8xxx cards frightens me :eek: The system isn't too cheap, just saved up for a while and saved money where I could. Build cost me about £470 so not too bad!

[iNF3rN0]

uh, isnt the gts 512mb the g92?

[3lfk1ng]

Yes it is.

[BigKriss]

These 2 fans on the 8800 GTX dropped temps by 10 deg C..Used Loctite grey silicon to "glue" them on..Easy to remove as well when needed.

[By0T0xN]

These 2 fans on the 8800 GTX dropped temps by 10 deg C..Used Loctite grey silicon to "glue" them on..Easy to remove as well when needed.

Question, I realize the Intel fan is feeding air to the cooler but is the other fan exhaust or intake as well? Did you leave the stock fan running or did you disconnect it?

Good results for a ghetto mod, I just might try this one.:D

[BigKriss]

The Intel feeds -The stock fan is still there and connected as per normal.Riva`d to 100% as well..
The 80mm fan exhausts or extracts the heat from the cooler fins..
What you could also try using with slightly less effeciency is a thermaltake pci slot fan mounted under the grafix card..I had that for a while but ultimately not as good as this setup..

Let us know your results..

[serialk11r]

Hahahahaha anyone who knew me back when I posted a lot would know. If you look through the threads I started, you'll see my various failed ghetto mods.

[tiro_uspsss]

Hahahahaha anyone who knew me back when I posted a lot would know. If you look through the threads I started, you'll see my various failed ghetto mods.

how come u dont post alot any more? :confused:

[i43]

here my ''ghetto modded'' Ultra :) .. ok just a temporary solution to find out, how this kind of ''air diffuser'' can help to lower case internal temperature

and BTW, must say, this really helps, if gotta full air cooled, and mid range
overclocked system inside such ''ill-ventilated'' case like Antec p182 (sorry didn't mean to hurt any Antec owners :) )
but if like to keep Antec stock tri-cool fans @ low- or mid rpm level to avoid of ''vacuum-cleaner'' like noize coming from (under) your desk :)

[BigKriss]

Good idea !
Take it one step further which will produce awesome results..use a pci extractor fan under the Ultra BUT seal it to the ultra ..This way it gets extracted AND shoved outside of the case.

Remember that any substance likes the path of least resistance..So you have to help it change direction and that is where the fan comes in.

[Tsunami Fall]

9800Pro
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5927/vc20au.jpg

GeForce2 MX
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rmcinnis2/P5221296.JPG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rmcinnis2/P5221297.JPG

Triangular fan !
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/3872/p4241888bn8.jpg

[s e t h]

being from the third world i take pride in xtreme overclocking using sticky tape, wires, pliers and zip ties at every oppotunity :D

like these zip ties as holddowns and wire ties for 'sink mounting :rolleyes:
http://www.flytek.effectivehosting.co.za/pics/dfip35/ghettogpu.jpg

this sticky tape as moisture exclusion :p:
http://flytek.effectivehosting.co.za/pics/dfip35/ln2/underside.JPG

camping gas stove for brasing :cool:
http://www.flytek.effectivehosting.co.za/pics/dfip35/qx6850/burning.jpg

polystyrene frozen fish packing box as insulation :up:
http://flytek.effectivehosting.co.za/pics/dfi965/ice/ice.jpg
and
http://flytek.effectivehosting.co.za/pics/dfi965/ice/bench.jpg

and my current 24/7 rig...ln2 block with 5volt 120mm fan for cooling.
cpu is celeron 420 at 100% overclock on stock volts.
block is held down only by its own weight :shakes:
http://flytek.effectivehosting.co.za/pics/block.jpg

and lastly my partner and i bench as...team ghetto (http://hwbot.org/user.do?userId=9326) ;)

edit: ooops...nearly forgot our ghetto vmods (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=151983&highlight=ghetto)

[cozwin]

haha mate class well played especially like own wait holddown :P

[eternaljammer]

Well, I did a ghetto mod for my sister.....
I called it Ghetto-a-PC (pronounced GET-HER), she needed a PC real quick so I did this:

System spec's:
Socket 370 1000Mhz PIII Toluando (or whatever that series is called)
ASUS TUV4X Mobo (excellent mobo for PIII's, btw)
An old ATI card
512MB RAM like 168 Pin I think...
20GB ATA HD
350W PSU
LITE-ON DVD Burner
Case: some card board box's :)
Misc: Zip-ties and Duck tape (no screws...;))


http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/4627/cimg4677pl9.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2766/cimg4681gt1.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/6628/cimg4682be3.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8808/cimg4685rn6.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1737/cimg4690db5.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2138/cimg4687bs6.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2528/cimg4688lm3.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/9471/cimg4689cx2.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/2066/cimg4694jw8.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3089/cimg4696qk6.jpg
Here it is on her desk :)

hehe, it lasted for a month or so until the mobo died on me :rolleyes: now she's got a more modern dell that I fixed up.....
I can't help but laugh, it was fun :rofl: :rofl: :ROTF:

Man, thats the ghettoest mod I have ever seen.
':up:

[CyberDruid]

This thread is LEGEND:up:

[BigKriss]

Hey CD !!

Flytek,awesome stuff you messing with bud...

[cozwin]

remember guys try not to quote pics.

Also will be doing a little modding for cooling myself soon so expect pictures soon ish.

[drizzt5]

I saw quite a few box rigs at a lan this weekend... lol I love seeing them.

Btw, i love that ultra idea i43...

And is the intel stock cooler fan good for anything? Cause i might want to start messing a round with it and putting it on :banana::banana::banana::banana:.

[dunn2953]

i once ziptied a P4 heatsink onto a 7900gt. it died, and i have no pics, not my favorite memory

[computerking]

WHAT THE HELL !!!!! WTF are you doing with your hardware, I feel sorry for those NEW hardware, DAM.

[BigKriss]

WHAT THE HELL !!!!! WTF are you doing with your hardware, I feel sorry for those NEW hardware, DAM.

and the purpose of your post is .....................?

[natedog420]

lol i think i have most of you beat for ghetto mods lol this was great. this was a couple of years ago in the middle of winter time cold as can be and had the ac in the window lol. got good temps as i can remember seeing in bios -10c to -13c. ill just let the pics do the talkin got good results. got a world record out of it:D :up:

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=121318 that was one night testing it

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=124434 this was when i took the world record had my winter jacket on with door closed

edit: just remembered i was runnin just water and the fluid they gave me then the temps shot up and computer shut off i was like wtf. i froze the pump and res solid. lol nutin a hair dryer cant fix. believe it or not it fired back up and worked. pure anti freeze that time.

p4 511 2.8ghz
asus p5p800 se
evga 7800gs agp
geil ddr1 500
aspire 500w
kingwin aquastar pump finally died not to long ago after some left over dry ice from a bench session
old 1988 ac with no thermostat on the condenser and on high and a few pieces of cardboard about a 1/4 inch of ice was on the pipes and condenser

[Retratserif]

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8808/cimg4685rn6.jpg <- LOL!

[eternaljammer]

Card board computer gets my vote!

[natedog420]

yes the cardboard box is very ghetto more than ever lol

[smee]

Haha thanks guys for all the feedback and encouragement for my cardboard box... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :ROTF: :ROTF: :p: :rolleyes: :D

So, about a month and a half later (after I built it), I was just putting in a new video card, turned it on, and got nothing, I smelt a small puff of smoke, and figured that a capacitor had popped..... so, bye bye ghetto box... :D :D

So we got a free dell from a friend, and I fixed it up for her.....

We had a nice little funeral for the the box though.... :yepp: :p: :p: :D

[Power5]

here my ''ghetto modded'' Ultra :) .. ok just a temporary solution to find out, how this kind of ''air diffuser'' can help to lower case internal temperature

and BTW, must say, this really helps, if gotta full air cooled, and mid range
overclocked system inside such ''ill-ventilated'' case like Antec p182 (sorry didn't mean to hurt any Antec owners :) )
but if like to keep Antec stock tri-cool fans @ low- or mid rpm level to avoid of ''vacuum-cleaner'' like noize coming from (under) your desk :)

Make the duct a little bit bigger and attach an 80mm fan to the expansion slots. That should really help your ultra idea.

[Gunslinger]

Not quite as ghetto as the cardboard case, probably more doublewide, trailer park, then ghetto.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=185282

[hokiealumnus]

+1 for the cardboard box PC being the most ghetto.

I have two to add to the thread (links are to how-to's).

1. After getting completely fed up with the CCMOS1 jumper on my IP35-E, I went ahead and made an external switch for it (http://forums.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=133396). It wouldn't have been so bad if the ancient steel case had some room to put it where I wanted...but noo, it has to sit in the middle of nowhere and look like crap. To wit:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj41/hokiealumnus/InsideInstalled.jpg

Hey, at least it looks ok on the outside. :)

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj41/hokiealumnus/SwitchInstOutside.jpg

2. The aptly named Cool Whip mod (http://forums.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=132718). From the pics, it's pretty self-explanatory. Works great for down-firing HS's like my Big Typhoon.

http://www.myalbumbank.com/albums/userpics/10080/InsideModdedPanel.jpg

Like the clear CMOS switch, it doesn't look too bad on the outside. :p:

http://www.myalbumbank.com/albums/userpics/10080/FinalSidePanel.jpg

After seeing the cardboard box PC, it's not as ghetto as you can get, but it's close! :ROTF:

[=ACID RAIN=]

Oh man. The box I could deal with (done that myself) but the COOL WHIP MOD!!? HAHAHA! Love it! A little bondo and paint and it would look custom :ROTF:

Here is my cardboard duct for my old gameserver...
http://www.goinglimp.com/gallery/d/24-1/cooling4.jpg
If you look closely, you can see a craptastic heatsink on the TNT2 PCI card down low, being held on by some oddball screws with motherboard mounts. I still have that card, what a beast.

[Helfarch]

Ghetto minicube to run a projector from a tiny cupboard, projector gets mounted some time this week. Even the smallest mATX cases I could find were too long to fit + power cable.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/DivHunter/Picture2-1.jpg

[Janno]

+1 for the cardboard box PC being the most ghetto.

I have two to add to the thread (links are to how-to's).

1. After getting completely fed up with the CCMOS1 jumper on my IP35-E, I went ahead and made an external switch for it (http://forums.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=133396). It wouldn't have been so bad if the ancient steel case had some room to put it where I wanted...but noo, it has to sit in the middle of nowhere and look like crap. To wit:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj41/hokiealumnus/InsideInstalled.jpg

Hey, at least it looks ok on the outside. :)

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj41/hokiealumnus/SwitchInstOutside.jpg
not the ghettoest, but the cleverest mod :up:
tbh it's so practical, i want one myself :p:

[l33t p1mp]

Hehehe...you guys know those stock intel cpu coolers? :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty for a cpu right? Damn nice for a northbridge cooler though! :D
Also, I have this 80mm fan that blows air like theres no tomorrow. I put that on top of my cpu's waterblock blowing air onto the side. 1c temp difference.
I plan to ghetto mod my 8800 gts sometime soon so I can hit 900 core...

[Spectrobozo]

some years ago my XP 1700+ asked for more cooling... :yepp:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/Spectrobozo/gambiarradetona026wc.jpg

geforce 2 MX to... :yepp:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/Spectrobozo/gambiarradetona010wf.jpg

[serialkilla277]

ahaha looks even more ghetto b/c of all the dust ... nice work :clap:

[railmeat]

ahaha looks even more ghetto b/c of all the dust ... nice work :clap:

dude im DYING LAFFING AT that comment!!lololol :D:D:ROTF:

@janno...nice work man.

[s1nykuL]

Around 8 years ago I became the proud owner of a new Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz, I managed to clock this to 1.52Ghz on air. It would boot into Win98se though it wasn't stable at those clocks, (limited by the FSB of the KT7) but It was run daily at 1.437Ghz. These are the images of my "ghetto mod" cooling solutions for both the AMD and the overclocked GeForce 3. :)

http://www.propergander.org.uk/NotContent/1.jpg

http://www.propergander.org.uk/NotContent/3.jpg

http://www.propergander.org.uk/NotContent/4.jpg

That same KT7 RAID mobo and the very same processor is now in my garage, it has been running more or less 24x7 for over five years as a file server. It is still overclocked, but now at a more leisurely 1.1GHz, and with the original pencil mod that I made they day the chip was bought.

[MikalCarbine]

+1 for the cardboard box PC being the most ghetto.

I have two to add to the thread (links are to how-to's).

1. After getting completely fed up with the CCMOS1 jumper on my IP35-E, I went ahead and made an external switch for it (http://forums.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=133396). It wouldn't have been so bad if the ancient steel case had some room to put it where I wanted...but noo, it has to sit in the middle of nowhere and look like crap. To wit:


I actually did the same kind of mod with my DFI Ultra-D some time ago, lucky for me my IP35 Pro has a built in switch on the back of the board :up:

[nd4spdbh]

OO OOO OO can i show off ghetto mods!

OK up first we have probably my most ghetto mod...

HD rubber mounted (using thick mouse pad squares and double sided stickey tape) hd cooling (old 478 heatsink, put some white generic TIM and put it on there) and HD silencing (carpet padding) ALL IN ONE!!!!
http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/DSCF0073.JPG

Next we have my good ole 6600gt AGP... i loved the thing i volt modded it and had it ocd 24/7 @ 626/1272 (not pictured is the backplate i made do to the card bending)
http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/comp/gfx%20card/P3110015.JPG

Next up is the wifi card that was "propritary" to asus motherboards... turns out its USB and 3.3v
http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/P2220031.JPG

Next is a 10gb maxtor hd that i put an acrylic top on... still works to this day :D
http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/comp/HD/P6190117.JPG

This is from Back in the day when i ust to use an old 10gb laptop hd as my servers main drive.... complete with super quality rubber band suspension, and little mouse pad feet in case of a fall :p
http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/comp/lappy2.jpg

Back to modding gfx cards.... 8800gts 640 with a 92mm fan on it....
http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/newcomp/8800/PC150160.JPG

I have done more ghetto stuff but these are the better ones... http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/smiliey/mexican.gif

[eternaljammer]

Around 8 years ago I became the proud owner of a new Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz, I managed to clock this to 1.52Ghz on air. It would boot into Win98se though it wasn't stable at those clocks, (limited by the FSB of the KT7) but It was run daily at 1.437Ghz. These are the images of my "ghetto mod" cooling solutions for both the AMD and the overclocked GeForce 3. :)

http://www.propergander.org.uk/NotContent/1.jpg

http://www.propergander.org.uk/NotContent/3.jpg

http://www.propergander.org.uk/NotContent/4.jpg

That same KT7 RAID mobo and the very same processor is now in my garage, it has been running more or less 24x7 for over five years as a file server. It is still overclocked, but now at a more leisurely 1.1GHz, and with the original pencil mod that I made they day the chip was bought.

Wow, truly nice duct work there... also I like the duct tape and cardboard sweet.:up:

[smee]

@nd4spdbh, little mouse pad feet FTW!!!!! :D :up: :rofl::rofl:

"just in case of fall", haha that got me good!!!! :D :D :D :D
I'm thinking of doing the same thing with my had..... as ghetto as it is. :D

[tiro_uspsss]

Thermalright HR-05 SLI on a HIS X1300 PCI-Ex1 v.card :D
o yeah, & ram-sinks for the uber-insane-high-clocked v.ram :rofl:

[fng77]

This is the best thread ever. Its really cool to se how ingenious you guys are. I havent got anything to show yet, but i´m sure I will :)

[inCore]

This thread becomes more epic each day.

nd4spdbh, nice foot (on the pic with the acrylic HDD) :p:

This thread is the only place in the world where people get praised for having more dust. :D

[pacific vortex]

lol..reading this thread is the best time i've ever had running small fft's...the cardboard box and duct tape with optional dust is by far the most ghetto mod i've ever seen:up:

[DFectuoso]

Wow that cardbox box is by far the winner... wonder what could be the next thing around that area...

[Junimrox]

I've made a kind of air duct to my fathers computer with a soda can... it's so ghetto i've cutted myself twice, it's not even sanded.

[Richy]

awesome thread. I wish I took pics of my old antec, which shocked a couple friends when I took the sidepanel off (behind mobo tray) to reveal a couple 'high density threaded anti-vibrational elasticated sound insulation pads'.... aka a couple old socks to stop the bloody panel from resonating.
There's a bunch of blu-tak and electronic tape jobs running around my case, but nothing worth a photo. The emergency HDD mouse feet and rubber suspension by nd4spdbh gets my vote though!

[TedShred]

Can't believe I haven't seen this hugely entertaining thread before. Incredibly clever stuff! Smee, that cardboard pc is/was (so sad) the ghetto-bomb.

edit: ok, my meager twist tie & tape contribution

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh70/diggermats/tapefan-1.jpg

[Vatos_locos]

oh you want ghetto mod ? just look at this
a 17 years old boy from Cyprus made one stock Q intel 775 cooler into a chipset pot :)
if you don't understand the Creek Language just focus at the pic's and use google translate ;)

http://www.outofspecs.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=1683

[GeorgeVasil]

The Greek Way of benching..:D

[conzymaher]

Some seriously horrifically ghetto mods here :D keep it up!

One of my creations:

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9691/shuttle1iu9.jpg

[MikalCarbine]

Some seriously horrifically ghetto mods here :D keep it up!

One of my creations:



I love it, perfect lanbox :up:

[fng77]

Do you travel a lot conzymaher? ;)

[eternaljammer]

Some seriously horrifically ghetto mods here :D keep it up!

One of my creations:

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9691/shuttle1iu9.jpg

wow, another great one. Sweet work. Perfect for Lans!:up:

[ZenEffect]

Some seriously horrifically ghetto mods here :D keep it up!

One of my creations:

imho that is not ghetto at all, very nice and clean, well thought out, and looks fantastic to boot... but could you imagine trying to carry that through an air port in todays day and age? :rofl:

[inCore]

Not sure if this is ghetto as such, but I'm trying to decide how to make my window(s) on my P182.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Cardboardside1.jpg

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Cardboardside2.jpg

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x157/gLipgLipgLip/Cardboardside3.jpg

The hole at the bottom is where the dual radiator will be after I get my watercooling set up some time soon.

[jimmyboy]

and my current 24/7 rig...ln2 block with 5volt 120mm fan for cooling.
cpu is celeron 420 at 100% overclock on stock volts.
block is held down only by its own weight :shakes:
http://flytek.effectivehosting.co.za/pics/block.jpg

LOL, I love it. Gravity's free, why not put it to good use, right? :up:

[Pacha]

not so much ghetto heh but that fits in the description of the first post :


http://www.hostingpics.net/pics/1063888800_GT_mod.jpg

http://www.hostingpics.net/pics/1900128800_GT_mod_wb.jpg

ram sinks are from a cutted NB sink of a dead mb, stuck with AS adhesive, 80 fan for mosfets and other rams and wb is CPU wb 1A-SL2 with homemade mount


btw, awesome thread this is :D

[HotGore]

Love the mount!!!

[Pacha]

thanks :D

[smee]

Another ghetto something of mine :D :rolleyes:

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6143/cimg6230aa8.jpg

Thats on my 8800GT, temps in low 30's Idle and 42c Load. :up:
Very quiet I might add. :cool:

[lowfat]

Unfortunately I don't have pics of any of the ghetto mods I've done in the past :(

Radiator shrouds of out cardboard.
Waterblocks held down with zipties.
Geforce 2 GTS w/ a Thermaltake Volcano 7+ heatsink glued to the core.

[hollo]

:cool: thread

an experiment i did with a socket 462 setup ->

1st pic - case made of string, paperclips and 1 rubber band (i made a "case" like this for our flat computer, my flatmates loved it)
2nd pic - a heatsink glued onto the back of the motherboard with speedfan recording the temperature difference when i dropped the heatsink onto the pool of glue (42-38) and then when i turned on the fan (38-36)
3rd pic - a small cardboard box i made, sealed on the inside with varnish, then glued to the back of the motherboard, with speedfan recording the temperature drop when i filled it with water :ROTF:
and then the temp starts to creep back up on the last graph as the water warms up

[KeZzZu]

ugh i must post this... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=112725

The way i used it & builded & ripped ... blowed up after 19 hours cooling 40 liters of water glykol mix... pushed temps on -9 c' ambient were +16 c'

well have good laugh on it :D

[Pacha]

ugh i must post this... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=112725

The way i used it & builded & ripped ... blowed up after 19 hours cooling 40 liters of water glykol mix... pushed temps on -9 c' ambient were +16 c'

well have good laugh on it :D

lol such a ghetto chill :D
love the smashed fridge in the middle of the room :p:

[Makavre]

this thread is awesome :up:

a few years back i had a ghetto box too :D
i used an old maxtor hdd box, put in a couple of
hard drives, cd rom, and some of fans, the mobo
was sitting on top because the box was too small

ps. i still have the box but the mobo is dead

[jawoo2006]

You guys haven't something this horrifying :)...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/jawoo2006/DSC_0006-1.jpg


http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/jawoo2006/DSC_0007copy.jpg


http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/jawoo2006/DSC_0008copy.jpg


The mobo is sitting on a netgear box... It does a darn good job of keeping my mobo off the ground :)

This is only a temporary solution as I am modding my Antec 900 as I am making it wire management friendly :)


Edit: Oh I forgot. It has been running 3 days straight. Quite coolly too I might add.

[flclisgreat]

here you go

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=188394

[strange|ife]

Smee wins ghetto of the month, for real


:cool:

[MaSell]

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/6290/dscf05915in.jpg
Opty 144 uber colbugged, 2.1GHz unstable (air 3G+) :D


http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/387/dscf0048kv7.jpg
Loooooong time ago, mine phase babies :D I know I'm skilled builder lol :D


http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/3568/pict0006bh9.jpg
Some 3d huh :D ?


http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6721/dscf05391zw6.jpg
Who want iced water ;)


http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6472/dscf0401mx7.jpg
Pretty nice 24/7 wc setup :D


http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4051/hddmo8.jpg
Your hdd is too hot too ;) ?


http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8311/dscf0913jz9.jpg
Maybe I need to put better insulation? DI cooled gpu, water cooled mem and pcb :D . Card worked 100% good after that

[Pacha]

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4051/hddmo8.jpg
Your hdd is too hot too ;) ?

I must say this one made me laughing out loud :rofl::ROTF:

[Origin_Unknown]

lol @ the hanging pc....

[M3kk]

7900GT vmod :D

http://mekk.homeip.net/7900mod/Image085.jpg

http://mekk.homeip.net/7900mod/Image086.jpg

http://mekk.homeip.net/7900mod/Image065.jpg

:D :D

[just a noob]

some of these are...just wow, cardboard box and hanging pc. :rofl:

[dA_PhReAk]

Some really creative people here :D My favorites are without a dooubt Cardbox pc, conzymaher's PC (you named it already? i dont know the english word for that :/), and hanging rubberband HDD

Keep em' comming!

[i found nemo]

http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/4/5/31/f_Picture29m_0e73503.jpg (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/5/31/f_Picture29m_0e73503.jpg&srv=img26)

this is a pic of a pen... a pen that supports my 6600gt, without it ... it won't make contact in the slot ... and causes random lock ups... even still...

[Clint]

I finally got some time to try to mount the Arctic Cooling Xtreme 2900 cooler on my Gigabyte HD 3850. It took some cutting in both the card and cooler, but now it sits there. And it works dang good!:up:
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5381/00012ne8.th.jpg (http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00012ne8.jpg)
http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/5012/0001ko5.th.jpg (http://img164.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0001ko5.jpg)
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6824/00013hz6.th.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00013hz6.jpg)
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3457/00015hp7.th.jpg (http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00015hp7.jpg)

With 1.5v I get 1GHz on the core, and a load temp not exceeding 48C.
http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/8793/9998752yo6.th.jpg (http://img47.imageshack.us/my.php?image=9998752yo6.jpg)

The cooler is very quiet at max speed, it simply works amazingly well!:D
I did put a res. for protection, miscalculated and got a max 1.5volts. I will bridge over that and se what 1.6volts can do. ;)

[philbrown23]

wow! thats amazing!

[Pacha]

It took some cutting in both the card and cooler, but now it sits there. And it works dang good!:up:

What did you cut of your card? :confused: :eek:

[Clint]

What did you cut of your card? :confused: :eek:

Not really cut, but I drilled out the mountingholes a bit more.:D

[destr0yer]

awesome ghetto mods:D:D

during the review of eVGA 9800 GTX, this graphics is to big to fit in my lian-li v880b.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj290/joaopgod/pc.jpg

external power supply :D

[eternaljammer]

Best thread in the whole forum

[jesperme]

I love this thread:D

[fng77]

Wonderful. The Laptop gets the designprice for "most ungainly creation" :p:

I just love the Big "chimney" sticking up from the keyboard. Can just i imagine how its feels to work with a thing like that. :ROTF:

[ovard]

http://i32.tinypic.com/voxzzo.jpg
Too bad it's all gonna be sorted out real soon though, I like it ghetto.

Large: http://i31.tinypic.com/2rpd63n.jpg

[TedShred]

Lol, clothespins, masking tape.... love this thread.

@ MaSell - I'm at a loss for words.....:up: . That one pic looks like a setup for cookin' up some Tennessee moonshine.

[KingOfToasty]

Best thread on these forums. Nearly wet my pants from laughing so hard. Cardboard box and moonshine still ftw. The cardboard box is definitely the most ghetto.

[RejZoR]

And i thought my mods are ghetto. Dang, is that a power tape on HDD's? :D LMAO! Rep points for that!

[ExodusC]

Well, the only ghetto thing I have right now is my TRUE's fan being strapped on with some rubber bands.

I'm really considering a cardboard box case for an old PII though. :D

[Blackstare]

Wonderful thread, there are very creative people over here :worship:

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/635/img0971ds2.th.jpg (http://img65.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0971ds2.jpg)

not an original (other ppl suggested the method) but sufficiently ghetto enough for this thread

[biohead]

dunno if it's ghetto. crappy phone pics. anyway here goes:

MDF, handmade
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pxXiMwidXIdsAdPddlfiGeHL6AUQkFRInMRLtQxBTOodoGla hZWk24APWCN2B1Q839MK_9HNDW6I/DSC00556.JPG
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pHHif-sxULQE82qxcXZHbRuSCXE6FdnGniEpKAniIuytZ_fkBV5TODGa _EclWnaniZWw5kbdLqlg/DSC00555.JPG
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p6dxcbPEqzbCBuRST4mLJcp1E_0yVL-QZ3M8YsoEGgglRPeQZTgna4EwcqABFQbp9lfyS5F1UY-I/DSC00557.JPG
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pZgAfIYYmhX3IhtbzseoDMqy-WGXml9aR3nJZ_xNdBzu54hOkwFkMZjeQDE-V4gO-7g0c0vfwVPs/DSC00558.JPG
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pvIbOMBm78YYZAz8HUcg4KZRBX5V8EUzkKXbYfkacNlv2bmW iTdnxaEWtBrXQqUwjk-18KQUbPWk/DSC00559.JPG

this was fun, sonic tower on x1900xt
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pAoXDZ35ld4HMcFl0qgz6AoCoiXNHdU2gK6QWEQpVv1vvmAK sanKFGFtS4mGuDO0PKegpUxVc7bY/PICT0088.jpg
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p5XbkRuKG8OT-uLs8YgMHrbjw_aktKg5alCIK7Ce5lQk0CltP7hcP8I0MP14tKq G23K5F0I-wqzo/PICT0091.jpg
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pR9Xztl4qO7TKClK8UvHE-VeiJlD5XwQV59WHKyTmSE47oJ_Y2PH2Nm866L0LNsNnF5_uiGY Qg5U/PICT0093.jpg

[biohead]

http://www.airfotos.net/mycomputerpics/SI-128.jpg

hd 4850

[tiro_uspsss]

results? :D

[biohead]

results? :D

no vmods yet, just 1.200v bios

stockcooler 740/1075

si-128 770/1150

[tiro_uspsss]

no vmods yet, just 1.200v bios

stockcooler 740/1075

si-128 770/1150

sweeet! :D

temps? before/after idle/load

[biohead]

sweeet! :D

temps? before/after idle/load

tested yesterday, all depends on room temp and clocks of course..

furmark maxed out 8aa 16af

fan @ max: 24°C idle (160/500) 31-32°C load (740/1075)

fan @ normal gives 3-5°C higher load.

before stockcooler (made my own auto fan profile) 55°C idle fan @ 25% load 75°C fan @ 55%

[tiro_uspsss]

thats awesome! :bows:

[Jim Morbid]

Man wish I had taken a picture of my ghetto setup. Was selling my case and had a 1 week period where my componets were housed by my table and some foam, printing paper and toothpicks...

Not my proudest moment...

[[XC] 2long4u]

Masel I don't think that cascade will work very good with a broken suction line.

[Fac3man]

my rig a couple awhile back
http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n51/manlymangamer/?action=view&current=Computer001.jpg

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n51/manlymangamer/Computer002.jpg

[Jim Morbid]

Fac3man where do you live? Just so that we can send the firetrucks round so long :p

JM

PS, dig the mouse pad.

[mad_skills]

I had a bit of a problem with my Corsair HX520W psu. The 8-pin cable was a bit short for some management i was doing so i bought a 20/24pin separate power cable:
http://www.list.rs/CMS/slike/proizvodi/911.jpg
cut bits from the sides and made the 8-pin cable a bit longer:

http://www.abload.de/thumb/image795rxc.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=image795rxc.jpg)http://www.abload.de/thumb/image796xhu.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=image796xhu.jpg)http://www.abload.de/thumb/image7949zi.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=image7949zi.jpg)
Real DIY mod...:D:up:

[philbrown23]

I had a bit of a problem with my Corsair HX520W psu. The 8-pin cable was a bit short for some management i was doing so i bought a 20/24pin separate power cable:
http://www.list.rs/CMS/slike/proizvodi/911.jpg
cut bits from the sides and made the 8-pin cable a bit longer:

http://www.abload.de/thumb/image795rxc.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=image795rxc.jpg)http://www.abload.de/thumb/image796xhu.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=image796xhu.jpg)http://www.abload.de/thumb/image7949zi.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=image7949zi.jpg)
Real DIY mod...:D:up:

could you pm me with a wire diagram for that? like where each wire gets hooked to on each side of the connector because I'm going to do the same thing cuz there is way to much tension on my 8 pin cable.

[mad_skills]

Check your inbox.:up:

[Oj101]

Note my zip tie holddowns for the tube :D

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=81575&stc=1&d=1215350837

[Xenogias]

Note my zip tie holddowns for the tube :D

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=81575&stc=1&d=1215350837



ALSO NOTE THE GRAPHICS CARD AT 45 DEGREE ANGLE!! LOL :rofl:

[Jim Morbid]

Was a about to say - Things to worry about (in order of importance):
1) Graphics card at 45 degrees
2) Cable ties on DICE setup
3) Mad use of extension cables

[Oj101]

1) It's the camera angle, the card's at about a 15 to 20 degree angle
2) It's LN2 ;) That's where I managed 3916MHz on my FX55
3) It was an overclocking event, six PCs running off of one plug :D

[Jim Morbid]

Congratz on that OC!

JM

[Oj101]

Thanks, but I posted here for the ghettoness :up:

[Goreg]

Heres my contribution.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3161373&postcount=3641

[little_scrapper]

Here is my Ninja duct mod made from an old recipe book holder so the vent and psu fans draw air through and out, also, with a port down on to my NB from my side fan. Worked like a charm

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5898/img0009wp4.th.jpg (http://img159.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0009wp4.jpg)

[stangracin2]

Here is my Ninja duct mod made from an old recipe book holder so the vent and psu fans draw air through and out, also, with a port down on to my NB from my side fan. Worked like a charm

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5898/img0009wp4.th.jpg (http://img159.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0009wp4.jpg)

thats not ghetto thats well thought out

[CanadaRox]

Here is my Ninja duct mod made from an old recipe book holder so the vent and psu fans draw air through and out, also, with a port down on to my NB from my side fan. Worked like a charm

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5898/img0009wp4.th.jpg (http://img159.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0009wp4.jpg)

That actually looks awesome, and even pretty professional. Might not be a ghetto mod, but it is pretty damn sweet. Maybe I'll have to get that heatsink and make something similar for my HTPC.

[fragmasterMax]

Heres my contribution.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3161373&postcount=3641

man thats brilliant

[fragmasterMax]

Here is my Ninja duct mod made from an old recipe book holder so the vent and psu fans draw air through and out, also, with a port down on to my NB from my side fan. Worked like a charm

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5898/img0009wp4.th.jpg (http://img159.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0009wp4.jpg)

couldn't you have just got two more 120 fans to mount on the uncovered side of the ninja. Then it would be push pull. For the fan above the nb you can brake the bottom of it slightly so the airflow hits the nb cooler. I have the same mobo as you, i'll post a pic of my ghetto mod later tonight.

[sandwichamwin]

I was all for the ghetto a few years ago. Here's some pics of my modded 9500. Well, that was before i finished the vmods and added a TEC :D

[BababooeyHTJ]

This is the best thread ever. I love the cardboard box pc.

[fragmasterMax]

So heres my ghetto mod. Been meaning to post a pic of it here, and since i had to remove it today to install my scythe orochi, what better time than now.
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/1187/1002481zx7.th.jpg (http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1002481zx7.jpg)

[hokiealumnus]

This thread is so much fun. My GTX needed some better cooling since we can Fold with them now, so I took the trusty jig saw and went to town on my old steel beast. The pic isn't great b/c my desk was in the way but it's just for amusement anyway.

http://www.myalbumbank.com/albums/userpics/10080/GPUTempRed.jpg

Notice the duct tape on the metal toward the bottom of the hole? Yea, that's where my jigsaw blade broke where the steel doubles over and I (still) don't have a replacement, so the duct tape remains. The other giant hole is from the aptly named "Cool Whip Mod (http://forums.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=132718)". Am I going to repaint the side panel? Never! Ghetto-rific. :rofl:

EDIT - To make up for how horribly ghetto it is, I have to redeem myself by saying the inside doesn't look nearly as bad as the outside (http://www.myalbumbank.com/albums/userpics/10080/mylittlesystem.jpg)!

[Blackstare]

This is a friend's pc who's vga fan died, so he came up with the most ubber ghetto mod i've ever seen! :lol: x 1000

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1091/dsc02607vk8.jpg

[VoGonPT]

OMFG!!!!!!!111111

Uber Donkey holding a Fan almost beats the Uber Cardboard case.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Amazing!!!!!!!!!

[The0men]

Yer I love the cardboard box PC, thats gold, I also love the mid-air PC lol.

Got some mates from way out bush, I need to take photos of their stuff,
what they think is good and neat, and what they use for 24/7, is about as ghetto as it comes,
they just dont see it like that lol.

Like when he broke his AMD cpu core by holding down a waterblock with cylinder head studs lol.

[alexio]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/AlexKok33/P1010168.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/AlexKok33/P2040172.jpg

The stock PSU just didn't cut it :D These pics are from 2004 I think.

[Vatos_locos]

Win 98 !!! :D

[alexio]

Win 98 !!! :D
OmG iT IS a PIRaTED VeRSIoN !!!! :rofl:

98se still rocks :up:

[Oj101]

Cable ties just don't do it for me anymore, string wins any day :D
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r35/Oj10101/IMG_9604.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r35/Oj10101/IMG_9605.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r35/Oj10101/IMG_9606.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r35/Oj10101/IMG_9608.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r35/Oj10101/IMG_9609.jpg

[fragmasterMax]

i use dental floss,
works great

[Vatos_locos]

here is an other one :p
i have one E4600 and one E6550 and i wanted to Overclock them but i had no cooler for them only one intel cooler from one celeron D with the cooper base and 2 sanyo denki 5k rpm :p

too loud and too cool :p

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8646/dsc02258bf5.jpg
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5028/dsc02257ud7.jpg

[VoGonPT]

Just thought of adding one I found on another forum ;)

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/44/dsc06548bs2.jpg

[inCore]

Awesome. I wonder if the dolphin sticker on the front of the case enhance cooling performance.

[NysoO]

Ghetto mods, lol. This thread is hilarious! :D

[ownage]

Ghetto mounting! :D

http://img.techpowerup.org/080611/1.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/080611/3.jpg

[nijel2@comcast.]

Renting U-Haul track for LAN parties:eek:

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/3237/pcte1.jpg

[Asgard_thor]

thats not ghetto...ITS PRO!

I love the door and where you mounted the PC speaker XD

[PkG.1337]

Welcome to PkG Customs
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9594/dsc5971resizela3.jpg
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7473/dsc5974resizenx8.jpg
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7007/dsc5969resizefn0.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7360/dsc5972resizedg7.jpg
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8263/dsc5970resizeib3.jpg
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5008/dsc5973resizecf2.jpg
real one:
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/Zalman_ZM-RF1/17_FP.jpg

[CanadaRox]

My contribution to this thread...

Probably don't even need the duct as its only a 45W X2 4050e (2.1GHz), but I couldn't pass up an opertunity to make some ultra-ghetto mods!

Pics:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d142/CanadaRox1112345/100_1063.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d142/CanadaRox1112345/100_1065.jpg

And yes, it is hockey tape (as a Canadian, I've got tons sitting around!)

[inCore]

Does the duct actually do anything?

And PkG, why the Playstation, why.

[Ghost742]

looks like there is a fan on the end sucking air away from the cpu sink

[@@@@]

Ghost742 is right there is a fan at the end of that Duct
I think the concept is like a vacuum that sucks air out
I have seen old servers having ducts it has almost the same concept

[Monkeywoman]

Does the duct actually do anything?

And PkG, why the Playstation, why.

HEY! this is a ghetto mod thread not a why PS3 is better then 360 thread:cool:

[CanadaRox]

Ghost742 is right there is a fan at the end of that Duct
I think the concept is like a vacuum that sucks air out
I have seen old servers having ducts it has almost the same concept

Exactly. That way there is always some airflow, and changing the speed of the fan will have a larger effect on the CPU temps (so it wont have to speed up as much during load). Seems to work quite well as the PC is nearly inaudible at full load, with temps never breaking 40°C. I never tested it without the duct though.

[hollo]

someone suggested i should post this in here :ROTF:this is for the DSL modem and wireless router in our flat. i noticed the modem was getting a bit warm, and our connection would drop from time to time. so i decided to stick a fan on it and see if it helped.
since the filter was going to offer some resistance to the air-flow i decided to make it larger than the fan, it probably ended up with the surface area of about 1.8 120mm fans. it's powered by a USB charger for an mp3 player that broke, ie it runs at 5V. it's made of a piece of stiff plastic screwed into the fan, foam tape insulating the join between the plastic and fan, a piece of polystyrene board as a spacer, and some sticks to stop the polystyrene part from caving inwards from the pressure of the pantyhose stretched over it. the size of the gaps in the pantyhose with it stretched as it is is probably about .5mm by .5mm, ie it'll be letting through 'dust' but stopping 'fluff'. i'm hoping that as 'fluff' builds up on the filter it'll become the filter and improve the filtering power - of course the air-flow will be reduced as this happens, but air-flow isn't a huge deal with this thing.

most of the air blows into the top vent of the DSL modem, while one edge of the fan is meant to blow some air through the side vent of the wireless router and out the other side. the fan's tied in place with string, and stopped from vibrating the whole board by 3 pieces of foam between it and the dsl modem.

[hollo]

and a stock pentium dual core heatsink on a 7950 GT :confused: :D

screws with their base roughened with sandpaper superglued onto the ram & power circuitry for cooling..
the copper plated thingy on the back is a small square cut out of something i pulled off the back of a gigabyte motherboard (it was under the CPU socket) - insulated from the back of the gfx card with foam soaked in silicon based TIM material. the metal v was part of a s939 stock heatsink. and a bit of very taut builder's twine with a dab of superglue to stop it slipping around holds it together

[Dr_Swizz]

and a stock pentium dual core heatsink on a 7900 GT :confused: :D

screws with their base roughened with sandpaper superglued onto the ram & power circuitry for cooling..
the copper plated thingy on the back is a small square cut out of something i pulled off the back of a gigabyte motherboard (it was under the CPU socket) - insulated from the back of the gfx card with foam soaked in silicon based TIM material. the metal v was part of a s939 stock heatsink. and a bit of very taut builder's twine with a dab of superglue to stop it slipping around holds it together

Wow! I've never seem anything like it before.
Do the memory heat sinks actually allow you to clock the memory any higher?

[HotGore]

Screws as mem sinks, that is genius.

[hollo]

well the mod was done for a friend, a non-overclocking friend ;(
so i think the mem's running @ stock
my only regret is not putting 2, 3 or 4 screws on each mem chip instead of just 1

i once spent 30 minutes on a motherboard gluing a screw to every capacitor and piece of exposed silicon - when i was finished the board looked like a hedgehog, it was beautiful :rofl:

[N00B]

This is a friend's pc who's vga fan died, so he came up with the most ubber ghetto mod i've ever seen! :lol: x 1000

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1091/dsc02607vk8.jpg

Lol This donkey....:rofl: new Fan holder.

Not so ghetto but here it goes

My modded wifi router
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDwBdpDpi4A

My first case mod , july 2002 .
(the power supply didn't fit on the case with the cooler

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9391/dscf0055zk2.jpg

[BossBorot]

4870 shroud + stock intel cooler fan = ghetto ram cooling

http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/5821/dscn1779it3.jpg

[initialised]

Who needs a 120.3?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2159/1808044241_5be024edd8.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2822962702_78c3914462.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2822126273_ebc08b413d.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2822140203_17980c1c58.jpg?v=0

Modded 2900XT - copper RAM shims
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2193/1779442025_3b339df8a3.jpg?v=0
Coated with red gasket compound
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/1780291302_2661e00eea.jpg?v=0
Ill fitting DD Maze
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/1709876104_9907493047.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2225/1709025397_1a35e14b21.jpg?v=0
I need a better GPU shim
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2091/1709021413_c1bfc0a6ba.jpg?v=0

320W SwifTEC Apogee GT
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2323/1709884110_a5c7b29765.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2139/1808891314_2e9cb09ff5.jpg?v=0

Koolance TEC chiller
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2028/1709233937_9814ebb069.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2315/2062469641_979d2b664e.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2240/2062468597_b4c0f01c8e.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2328/2063255426_8fc5bd6df9.jpg?v=0

Custom backplate
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2211/2063247600_e10c7fd214.jpg?v=0

Custom VRM waterblock shim
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2162/2063245666_3b5b0dd517.jpg?v=0

There's a compressor in there somewhere laddie
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2063237436_ab4e7582be.jpg?v=0

[Kingcarcas]

Epic thread! Didn't know there was one like this around here :p:

[initialised]

HEY! this is a ghetto mod thread not a why PS3 is better then 360 thread:cool:How about a water cooled PS3 vs water cooled XBOX 360, or just a thread on modded (overclocked) consoles?

[VoGonPT]

Awesome. I wonder if the dolphin sticker on the front of the case enhance cooling performance.

No, the sole purpose is to gain some additional 20 MHz ::ROTF:

[the_dope_chaud]

I love this thread !

Here are a few of my own :

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/5381/2851318868de0d5e90eagd6.th.jpg (http://img376.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2851318868de0d5e90eagd6.jpg)

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/507/2851318958f3a9c4e8d7wy8.th.jpg (http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2851318958f3a9c4e8d7wy8.jpg)

I won a thermaltake armor with that cardboard one.

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6184/285048713118009f7227bx6.th.jpg (http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=285048713118009f7227bx6.jpg)

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/4975/28504895411f224009f3zq6.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=28504895411f224009f3zq6.jpg)

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/5489/2850490217587d72401bbz4.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2850490217587d72401bbz4.jpg)

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/7785/2850490855d2160cf11amr6.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2850490855d2160cf11amr6.jpg)

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/8167/28504914910001c1bc17fa2.th.jpg (http://img113.imageshack.us/my.php?image=28504914910001c1bc17fa2.jpg)

server heatsink cut up for gigabyte motherboard mofsets:

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/5936/2851323832220519fe48wm8.th.jpg (http://img113.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2851323832220519fe48wm8.jpg)

accelerated 8800gts cooling for folding:

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/374/2851325576d0d343fc10wu3.th.jpg (http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2851325576d0d343fc10wu3.jpg)

[N00B]

My 478+agp+ddr testing table

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/792/12092008002pt5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/6923/12092008aw0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[hollo]

hanging computer #2 :D
-a stock s939 heatsink on a 6800 GS (held on with cable ties :woot:), adapted with a cardboard/tissue-paper/super-glue shroud to a 120mm fan @ 5V
-a small form factor 230W PSU with a 80mm fan @ 5V added to the side to replace the original noisy 60mm one
-CPU is a socket 754 mobile CPU, overclocked and undervolted (it runs fine with no fan at all (the original AMD fan made noise even at 5V, i assume it was a ball-bearing fan) but there's a blue-ish 80mm fan is hanging there for good measure)

there's a 7 metre long extension cable coming off one of the USB headers to a small USB soundcard which sits beside the amp in the lounge, connected to it with a 4cm long cable, to keep the sound in digital form for as much of the journey to the speakers as possible (which i only just managed to fit into the view-area of my camera).

[Monkeywoman]

very serious question, i'm buying a used dual orb for 25bucks with ram sinks, if i remove the old thermal pads from the mem sinks, can i super glue them on to the mem chips of my 4850 and still get cooling and oc?

[flclisgreat]

AS5 works to hold them on, even in a normal atx case where there upside down

[hollo]

if you clean the old mem-chips off with iso-alcohol i think it'd be fine. thermal epoxy would be better, technically, but for non-critical stuff (like gluing screws to mem-chips that didn't have sinks in the first place) i reckon super-glue is great.... and it seems to handle high-ish temperatures fairly well

[Monkeywoman]

AS5 works to hold them on, even in a normal atx case where there upside down

AC5 works upside down? i didn't think that, thats y i'm considering gluing them. in theory it works, even if i take 800grit paper to the mem chips to smooth them off wont hurt; just as long as i don't go to far down. thanks for the replys

[flclisgreat]

you have to put them on and push them on good, but yes i reused my ramsinsk like 3-4 times with just AS5(and never took the original heat tape off...)

and one-two may fall off, but you can get them to stick

[hollo]

just super-glued some screws onto some mosfets

if you do something similar remember to scrape the bottom of the screws with a file or some rough sandpaper. the glue holds much better. if you use the glue on a shiny metal surface that has a layer of oil from your finger on it some of the screws will fall right off if what they're attached to gets jolted ;)
(and i'd guess the thermal interface can't be so great either)

[dinos22]

:D

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2356/img1940fm0.jpg

[hollo]

for comic effect you need to tie a piece of long thin copper pipe onto them with string, and then thread one end of it through your northbridge heatsink

[FrostyPanda]

not really a mod per say...

[Trent04]

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4889/1003574tc7.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5228/1003575wm6.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8131/1003576eu3.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3324/1003577zu4.jpg

Custom cardboard case, Temp until I get my new case modded to accept motherboards made in this decade. . . . . :p:

[initialised]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3016/2969659753_f671e1f1bd.jpg?v=0
First Core i7 ghetto mod?

[Crankyhobo]

It doesnt have to be expensive to be extreme :P

[catawalks]

Not the most ghetto out of this bunch, but I'll throw mine up.


This is my nice little 733mhz Duron with an AGP Nvidia 6200.
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i142/catawalks/room%20pics/DSC01121.jpg

This is me playing on it (or maybe I was asleep, I can't tell).
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i142/catawalks/DSC01108.jpg

A couple more...
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i142/catawalks/DSC01109.jpg
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i142/catawalks/DSC01110.jpg

And this is my TV stand made up of an AMD 386, a Cyrix 486, and some other one I don't remember. (The CRT's are my test setup for when I'm workin on other people's crap.)
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i142/catawalks/DSC01114.jpg

[TedShred]

oh man:D.....:up::up::up::up:

[Revv23]

lol some good ones here. :up:


This site inspired my projects... if ihave time ill post mine later. :)

http://www.afrotechmods.com/

[El Greco]

Well i am not a mod type of guy but i did with fast mod just to keep my passive card running cold during summer (when playing counter strike )
And btw BossBorot the mod you did it is marvelous ..i like it !!!!!!!!!

[Jim Morbid]

We sure have come far from the days when we needed TEC's to play CS :P

JM

[El Greco]

:( Well i keep my oldy/crapy pc until next year (11/2009) because until then i got to serve one year in army away from home...Next year Nehalem for me !!!

[rintamarotta]

and a stock pentium dual core heatsink on a 7950 GT :confused: :D

screws with their base roughened with sandpaper superglued onto the ram & power circuitry for cooling..
the copper plated thingy on the back is a small square cut out of something i pulled off the back of a gigabyte motherboard (it was under the CPU socket) - insulated from the back of the gfx card with foam soaked in silicon based TIM material. the metal v was part of a s939 stock heatsink. and a bit of very taut builder's twine with a dab of superglue to stop it slipping around holds it together

just super-glued some screws onto some mosfets

if you do something similar remember to scrape the bottom of the screws with a file or some rough sandpaper. the glue holds much better. if you use the glue on a shiny metal surface that has a layer of oil from your finger on it some of the screws will fall right off if what they're attached to gets jolted ;)
(and i'd guess the thermal interface can't be so great either)

Omg, those memory and PWM heatsinks... :rofl:

[inCore]

Wow, hanging computers and computer attached to the wall. The way that you're lying down and sleeping/playing is genius catawalks.

[Trouffman]

Hardware flash connector for MSI's mobos that won't boot after a failed flash.

http://www.kirikoo.net/images/tn/tn_forum_6Trouffman-20081029-170424.jpg (http://www.kirikoo.net/images/6Trouffman-20081029-170424.jpg)

[catawalks]

Wow, hanging computers and computer attached to the wall. The way that you're lying down and sleeping/playing is genius catawalks.

lol, thanks. BTW, keyboard and mouse are now wireless.

Hardware flash connector for MSI's mobos that won't boot after a failed flash.

http://www.kirikoo.net/images/tn/tn_forum_6Trouffman-20081029-170424.jpg (http://www.kirikoo.net/images/6Trouffman-20081029-170424.jpg)

oooh, how I wish I had something like this for an Asus board. Could save me a lot of RMA time.

Nice work. :clap:

[best [486]]

I wish I had pics of the torch cut window "mod" I did.... :cries:

[[cTxP]Riggs]

Wafflepot? Look it up! :rofl:

[philbrown23]

Hardware flash connector for MSI's mobos that won't boot after a failed flash.

http://www.kirikoo.net/images/tn/tn_forum_6Trouffman-20081029-170424.jpg (http://www.kirikoo.net/images/6Trouffman-20081029-170424.jpg)

so exactly what is thus and how does it work

[luie]

Mr. "Graphics card": First Day of Spring Quarter.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03602.png
It all started while someone was cleaning out the dust bunnies. He decided to make use of an old heatsink.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03603.png
A graphics card was getting ready to go back to school. Week 1 of Spring quarter.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03604.png
While walking to school, he met three nasty screwdriver bullies. They popped off the graphic card's heatsink.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03605.png
He was unwilling to let go of his heatsink.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03606.png
So the big screwdriver gave the graphic card a good beating.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03607.png
He had to get to school on time. Just in case of another bunch of bullies ahead, he went to get his silver armor.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03608.png
And borrowed his big brother's heatsink.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03609.png
This time, he secured his big brother's heatsink with badass black threads.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03610.png
And armed with a threatening-looking fan.

[luie]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03611.png
The graphics card was once again ready to continue his journey to school.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03612.png
Other PCI cards students were scared of him so they changed seats.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03613.png
Instead of being intimidated by the graphics card, the USB thingys were attracted to his big fan.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03614.png
So, the USB thingys were all over his fan for it vibrates when it becomes turned on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03615.png
The graphics card thinks to himself, "This is the best lecture ever."

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/luigileung/05-04-01%20Gfx%20Card%20Heatsink/DSC03616.png
And the fan on the CPU heatsink died of jealousy.


The End


Have a wonderful quarter/semester back at school. :p

[Solarfall]

LMAO some of these mods are pure genius..the various coolin mods are my favorites of the bunch

[Solarfall]

here is my mod... slapped on a alphacool naxxxos XP waterblock on to my 260gtx + an old heatsink from a geforce 2 :D

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t307/Solarfall_photos/DSCN1344.jpg

desided to put a 80mm fan on the heatsink to keep things nice and cool.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t307/Solarfall_photos/DSCN1345.jpg

heres what it did to my clock speeds :D:D:D pretty good i would say the temps are around 30c constantly. the card has no volt mods :D

http://www.hwbot.org/signature.img?iid=162218&thumb=false

[Kingcarcas]

I want to hear luie tell another story YAY!:woot::wiggle:

[Josifek]

Heh i like that waterblock GPU mod, Im doing the same to my HD2900Pro + I am putting 3 AMD 754 BOX coolers on the RAMs :D

[JMKS]

How about modding 7600GS and adding some parts [MOSFET and a lot of capacitors, from really small to really BIG]?
MOSFET is from dead Gf6600, because comparing 7600GS and 7600GT, both by Palit, there was clearly one MOSFET missing ;).
The rest is mostly for fun, no spectacular results unfortunately, but I'm still working on it ;).

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8907/76gs01zm1.th.jpg (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs01zm1.jpg)
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/3127/76gs02ep7.th.jpg (http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs02ep7.jpg)
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6934/76gs03ca7.th.jpg (http://img258.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs03ca7.jpg)
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1979/76gs04bo2.th.jpg (http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs04bo2.jpg)
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6406/76gs05nx7.th.jpg (http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs05nx7.jpg)
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8975/76gs06ri2.th.jpg (http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs06ri2.jpg)
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4457/76gs07xo5.th.jpg (http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs07xo5.jpg)
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/4329/76gs08hg3.th.jpg (http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs08hg3.jpg)
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3429/76gs09gz0.th.jpg (http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs09gz0.jpg)
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3495/76gs10tq8.th.jpg (http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs10tq8.jpg)
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6498/76gs11dg2.th.jpg (http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76gs11dg2.jpg)

[Vatos_locos]

lol you need to improve your soldering skill tho :p

[JMKS]

That soldering was done by a friend of mine, I'm still learning [slowly...]. It is not that bad - at least it works ;). And that was the main idea, not to do it perfect in every aspect :p:.
And now "the leg of the capacitor" [for voltage measuring] is not only on the PCB :).

In fact it is much more "clear" than that :rofl::
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/3439/vmodbv2.th.jpg (http://img74.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vmodbv2.jpg)
worked flawlessly :) [Commando; 100k VR + 8.2k resistor]

[The0men]

lol you need to improve your soldering skill tho :p

Nah if it was neat it wouldnt be so ghetto lol.

[lism]

Man some nice Ghetto-mods in here :) Here's a small list of mines... With pics (clickable).

The famous 9800Pro-Keychain-mod :D
http://tweakers.net/ext/f/mPXzl7hcceryRenB7D81Xgk3/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/mPXzl7hcceryRenB7D81Xgk3/full.jpg)

Installation of a VF1000 with a decent VRM-cooler attached (Stock heatsink)

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/1JhNVuZ04aJ3udYlkcpa2XcB/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/1JhNVuZ04aJ3udYlkcpa2XcB/full.jpg)
Often stock-coolers really do come handy...

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/f6BZW3Lb9P0vpgxJkglgAvpd/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/f6BZW3Lb9P0vpgxJkglgAvpd/full.jpg)
Really mitched a notch there.. but it fitted and worked. As paste i used the stuff thats wrapped between the memory and the stock-cooler.. Really works well. Tightend it together with the screws and it works like a charm :up:

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/brxYlLKTn2vlUMu7RHBKfFcj/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/brxYlLKTn2vlUMu7RHBKfFcj/full.jpg)
Final result :D

This was more of an experiment ... :

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/oDNjEmGBhYjhOODq5Bu2fkdE/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/oDNjEmGBhYjhOODq5Bu2fkdE/full.jpg)

Yes, attaching CCFL's towards my TFT. Used an old 12V DC powersupply of a cablemodem which delivered up to 1A. This was the result:

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/cmRlk30DKtZto3kWEfM64efl/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/cmRlk30DKtZto3kWEfM64efl/full.jpg)

Pretty nice back then...

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/Z8m8XaS6zwfsvDfxARVrCwBG/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/Z8m8XaS6zwfsvDfxARVrCwBG/full.jpg)

My first watercooling.... :D Wraps of garbagebags.. rofl

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/bn4Z6kdBsxDovp8BC2YDB3T2/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/bn4Z6kdBsxDovp8BC2YDB3T2/full.jpg)

Soldering new caps on a fried 2600Pro...

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/wzFeHitanbUc27l3TkXbDNq8/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/wzFeHitanbUc27l3TkXbDNq8/full.jpg)
Untill i figured out this was'nt the correct side of the card, my heatsink woud'nt fit no more :eek::D

Later on, a boostermod, since the PCI-express slot cannot deliver more then 75watts:
http://tweakers.net/ext/f/GUa0tqqw9PZmNp1p2VblaGoT/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/GUa0tqqw9PZmNp1p2VblaGoT/full.jpg)


http://tweakers.net/ext/f/URhDoVxlV9SRFBwKiU8dvAGu/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/URhDoVxlV9SRFBwKiU8dvAGu/full.jpg)
Alot of people might wonder why the hell an Athlon 64 IHS was doing on a vidcard.. It would protect the core from being chrushed by my vapochill. Really cool temps, -29 at load / 1200MHz core. This was a 8600GT btw.

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/EtKnzqUxwG2VgZhuqQzdslfe/thumb.jpg (http://tweakers.net/ext/f/EtKnzqUxwG2VgZhuqQzdslfe/full.jpg)

Dangerden Maze 3 waterblock on a X1950Pro with 2 screws :D

[DX_Medic]

This was what I did last night.
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v368/182/70/595445521/n595445521_1612923_5691.jpg
Added a second 300 watt PSU and it works great. !!

[VOID WARRANTY]

ghetto mods when.....when most of your water cooling components came from home depot :up:

[sirheck]

My brothers sys.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n280/sirheckiii/Picture185-1.jpg

Mine.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n280/sirheckiii/Picture155.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n280/sirheckiii/Picture151.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n280/sirheckiii/Picture160.jpg

[S_G]

LMAO! sirheck, that is freaking awesome.

[Oj101]

not really a mod per say...

Wow that brings back memories... It was in the February 2001 issue of the South African PC Format magazine as a joke in the classifieds section... Something along the lines of 750MHz P3 laptop with surround sound speakers :D

[Oli4v]

while I was painting my HD cage and I didn't had a CPU in my secondary pc, I just created myself a kind of a Ghetto HD mount :p

http://i33.tinypic.com/akemb4.jpg

[VoGonPT]

:eek:

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/28/case-body-mod.jpg

[drizzt5]

ROFL LOL ^^^

+ respect

[sniperbob]

HAHAHA

"is that CD ejecting or are you just happy to see me?!" :rofl:

[xman01]

:eek:

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/28/case-body-mod.jpg

it's Komputa Man, able to fold with just a thought!:rofl:

[Martijn]

Too bad it doesn't have a CPU :(

[Katanai]

Not the most ghetto out of this bunch, but I'll throw mine up.


This is my nice little 733mhz Duron with an AGP Nvidia 6200.

This is me playing on it (or maybe I was asleep, I can't tell).
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i142/catawalks/DSC01108.jpg



Dude that's not a ghetto mod, that's a porn mod! :rofl:

[George_o/c]

OMG, this thread is so awesome :D Thumb-nailed :yepp: :rofl:
The various cooling mods are :eek:, and so is the first one (box pc), but so far the funniest ghetto-mod is by far catawalks'es bedtime computer partner :D

[ExodusC]

Here's a new one. I got my open-box X38 board yesterday, and of course whoever returned it stole the northbridge heatsink... I had none that fit, so I had to rig up my own:

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/1527/ghettosr3.jpg

I got an old northbridge heatsink from a socket 939 motherboard and then cut up some old headphones. I used the insulated wire from the headphones to string up the heatsink to hold it in place. It works well, though it's only a temporary solution.

[Oli4v]

found the pics from my tempory case from my 2nd pc back :), great time, GF6200 dieclocking, but my mother want's it to be propper on my pc room ... -.-

http://i37.tinypic.com/2qujksk.jpg
and it even has an exhaust fan :)

[DX_Medic]

:eek:

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/28/case-body-mod.jpg

FEAR is in my eyes BTW no ATX 20pin plugged into him

[Josifek]

HD 2900Pro preparing for Watercooling. Its a 754 Box cooler cut to 3 pieces. Its not done yet, ill show more pics when its done...

[Solarfall]

im soo loving that pic.. looks like a nother killer cooling mod

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=89450&stc=1&d=1227386952

[Josifek]

im soo loving that pic.. looks like a nother killer cooling mod

Thanx m8, wait what you see 'till its done :D

[CandymanCan]

I think this is a pretty ghetto mod altho nothing compared to strapping computer parts to yourself lol

Pics in the thread

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showthread.php?t=203741&highlight=maze

[MidgetMariachi]

Dude that's not a ghetto mod, that's a porn mod! :rofl:

Throw some 3D capabilities in there and you've got a fun time :up:

Midget Mariachi http://photo-shack.com/img/c930eecd01935feef55942cc445f708f.gif

[Solarfall]

the trusty waterblock in action again, but this time i've made a vgpu volt mod to my HD4850 it seems to overclock pretty well with just plain water cooling..btw the voltage that was used was 1.5v.. + i have custom cooling on the volt regulators :D old heatsinks that i scavenged from an old dfi lanparty expert mobo.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t307/Solarfall_photos/DSCN1408.jpg

it clocks pretty well doesent it :D..

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t307/Solarfall_photos/06928mhz.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t307/Solarfall_photos/01931mhz.jpg

[GamerBR]

My Xbox 360 with a falcon board,after giving the RROD and fixing it by the clamp mod.I decided to do this because I can give it better cooling,because if it fail again I don't need to open de case and because it's cool:rofl:
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4399/sn850143eg5.jpg

[silisli]

My Xbox 360 with a falcon board,after giving the RROD and fixing it by the clamp mod.I decided to do this because I can give it better cooling,because if it fail again I don't need to open de case and because it's cool

WOW, Good job :clap:. A friend of mine was trying to come up with a way to cool his 360. This is perfect, I'm gonna forward this to him.

Well heres my ghetto mod. Reversed Dell Ducting with a 120mm fan to boot! haha. and also motherboard cooling slot :p:

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/8690/pict0002rp3.jpg

[Easybeat]

My addition to the thread - A toolbox PC. 1.1Ghz CPU, 384mb ram, 12Gb HDD, TV-out card. It has a wireless keyboard and mouse if required but it's main interface is a trackball I bought on eBay from an old Air traffic control tower.

Its used as a karaoke machine as a I didn't own a laptop at the time and it seemed a good use of some bits and pieces I had lying around.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7900/46513208fp2.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8806/11744302jy4.jpg

[ExodusC]

My addition to the thread - A toolbox PC. 1.1Ghz CPU, 384mb ram, 12Gb HDD, TV-out card. It has a wireless keyboard and mouse if required but it's main interface is a trackball I bought on eBay from an old Air traffic control tower.

Its used as a karaoke machine as a I didn't own a laptop at the time and it seemed a good use of some bits and pieces I had lying around.
Wow, that's not ghetto, that is awesome!

I want one!

[gugle]

my reservoirs WC

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6158/2711081408nd8uy2.th.jpg (http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2711081408nd8uy2.jpg)

:p:

[Solarfall]

and another cooling mod by me ..(again) :D. this time the victim is the 9800 gx2 aka "hamburger"... i just bolted 2 D-tek fuzion waterblocks to the card and voila my load temps are bellow 35c constantly :D i can overclock the core all the way to 820mhz ( 3d stable)


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t307/Solarfall_photos/DSCN1417.jpg

[Ruslan]

The airflow in my case is reversed so the intake is in the back and the exhaust is in the front.
This cardboard duct is taped to the 120 mm intake fan and directs the airflow to the stock i7 920 cooler reducing my temps by around ~7 degrees Celsius.
http://compru.us/PIX/100_0064.jpg

http://compru.us/PIX/100_0071.jpg

Running at a comfortable ~70 Celsius 100% load on all cores and ~35 idle with the case cover closed and the ambient room temperature is ~75 F. Running it at 3.33 Ghz Prime stable 12+ hours. By the way the case is a LIAN LI PC-A05B, very good case IMHO. :up:

[silisli]

Solarfall;3458134]and another cooling mod by me ..(again) :D. this time the victim is the 9800 gx2 aka "hamburger"... i just bolted 2 D-tek fuzion waterblocks to the card and voila my load temps are bellow 35c constantly :D i can overclock the core all the way to 820mhz ( 3d stable)

Dang. Whys the card at an angle like that?

[Solarfall]

Dang. Whys the card at an angle like that?

cos the sli link cable is on the bottom and its pretty easy to open up the dual pcb's and fit 2 blocks on the card ;)

it shows more clearly on this pic ( same one that i posted but with out the flash)

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t307/Solarfall_photos/DSCN1419.jpg