Ghetto Mods?

Who needs a 120.3?
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Modded 2900XT - copper RAM shims
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Coated with red gasket compound
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Ill fitting DD Maze
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I need a better GPU shim
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320W SwifTEC Apogee GT
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Koolance TEC chiller
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Custom backplate
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Custom VRM waterblock shim
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There's a compressor in there somewhere laddie
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Epic thread! Didn't know there was one like this around here :p:

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Originally Posted by Monkeywoman

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

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How about a water cooled PS3 vs water cooled XBOX 360, or just a thread on modded (overclocked) consoles?

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Originally Posted by inCore

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

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

I love this thread !

Here are a few of my own :

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I won a thermaltake armor with that cardboard one.

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server heatsink cut up for gigabyte motherboard mofsets:

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accelerated 8800gts cooling for folding:

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My 478+agp+ddr testing table

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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).

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?

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

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

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Originally Posted by flclisgreat

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

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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

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

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)

:D

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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

not really a mod per say...

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

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First Core i7 ghetto mod?

It doesnt have to be expensive to be extreme :P

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.
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This is me playing on it (or maybe I was asleep, I can't tell).
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A couple more...
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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.)
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oh man:D.....:up::up::up::up:

lol some good ones here. :up:


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

http://www.afrotechmods.com/

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 !!!!!!!!!

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

JM

:( 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 !!!