Ghetto Mods?

**Brutuz** · 06-03-2009, 02:37 AM

I got some more.

Ghetto iPod dock on my CM690.

Ghetto Fan mod for my (newer, PCIe) 6800GS.

**Josifek** · 06-08-2009, 03:08 PM

On our last session, we had to cool the NB on the Asus P5Q with LN2, so we needed to swap mosfet heatpipe part cooler for the one on the side. For the side we choosed cooling with cut AMD box cooler...

**LeglesSs** · 06-09-2009, 05:14 PM

Haha that dry ice rig looks awesome, awesome temps as well

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**Thrilla** · 06-09-2009, 10:24 PM

Ghetto display ambient light

Under-desk stats/song/msn monitor

Don't think this is actually a mod but it sure is ghetto

Did I mention a ghetto AC :P

**JustCallMeFrank** · 06-11-2009, 02:05 AM

Thrilla: I love the ghetto AC!

**grasskicker509** · 06-12-2009, 01:02 AM

XS members are sure resourceful!

**Burnt Toast** · 06-13-2009, 06:10 PM

My ghetto media center.
Specs:
Intel E6400 2.13GHz @ 2.4GHz
Gigabyte GA-965G-DS3
EVGA 8800GTS 650C, 1566S, 880M
A-Data 2x1GB
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB
Antec TruePower Trio 650W PSU

And yes that is an Intel fan from a heatsink powered by USB...It keeps my NB cool...

**Szpara** · 06-14-2009, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by karbonkid

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

you todaly remided me about the time that i had water cooling for the last week, well pipes ware not so big so they would get cloght out and no liquid could go trugh so i used my very own OLD pneutomatic air plaine pump to unclught it.

lesson NEVER USE H2O as coolent.

i wish i had a picture

**Szpara** · 06-14-2009, 11:56 AM

window project

turns out

front radiator mod (you can see the towel and tubes in the window)

top fan mod

THE PUMP^^

from inside

over 6500rpm small delta fan for the ram ( XTREME LOUD!!!!1)(as well the fom thing at the bottom from maxtor 40GB HDD box)

**stangracin3** · 06-19-2009, 02:35 PM

im currently making a ghetto tech bench out of the guts of this.

so far ive got the guts out of it

then im making a wood platform with a space in it for the hd's, dvd drives, psu etc.

**overclockedamd** · 06-19-2009, 05:21 PM

My late 4890...pulled 1000core 1200mem easy. Death by screwdriver slip.

Two HR-03GT 2x80mm fans on one with blue masking tape to direct airflow. One Fanless in reverse. Held together by zipties and luck . O and a 60mm AMD fan from my 720BE factory hs for the VRM. idle was around 40c full load 50c.

**Assassin48** · 06-19-2009, 06:16 PM

all of these all hilarious !

**MBomberZ1** · 06-19-2009, 11:09 PM

This isn't as hardcore ghetto as most but thought i would share, i think its fairly common for the board i did it too even though it ended up with the mosfets STILL frying, o well.

Did this to a BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX, for some reason it doesn't come with any heat sink stock on the mosfets.. I dont have any pictures of the board and heat sink together but i found the heat sink and took a few pics, and ill add a few of the burnt board as well

Stupid quad cores and crappy pwm designs..or should i say cheap. This was just a cut up amd heatsink that came with my old athlon 3200+, took quite a while to cut through the thing with an old dull hacksaw blade

**madmax999** · 06-20-2009, 02:46 PM

This is a benching setup for one competition

Hardware used:
Phenom II 940 BE + CM Gemini II
Asus M3A78-T
2x1GB Crucial Ballistix .16FD3 D9GMH
Integrated graphics HD3300

Limitations of the competition:
Air cooling
No voltmods
Overclocking of integrated GPU allowed

Software for testing:
Super Pi 1.5XS 32M
PiFast
wPrime 1.55 1024M
PcMark 05
CPU-Z (max CPU frequency)
OCCT 3.0.1 - 3h of stress testing
3DMark 06 & Aquamark 3

Pictures:

Max cpu clock:
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=589717

3DMark 06 result:
3115 3Dmarks

I will post screenshots and other results later

**Wava** · 06-21-2009, 02:43 PM

Wow, i thought that I was ghetto. But when i see all of this i don't feel as ghetto as i did before. Nice wicked things, keep up the modding!

**sinephase** · 06-27-2009, 10:25 PM

The mobo box media center has me beat, but mine's ghetto notheless!

You can see my thread for it at EVGA forums here: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=647448

**Burnt Toast** · 06-27-2009, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by sinephase

The mobo box media center has me beat, but mine's ghetto notheless!
[img]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/sinephase/ghetto%20HTPC/100_0275.jpg [img]

You can see my thread for it at EVGA forums here: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=647448

Well, my media center is going to be made into a proper one...I just ordered myself a Lian-Li Lancool PC-K7B for $80 with free shipping. It should be here sometime next week.

**sinephase** · 06-28-2009, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by Burnt Toast

Well, my media center is going to be made into a proper one...I just ordered myself a Lian-Li Lancool PC-K7B for $80 with free shipping. It should be here sometime next week.

Makes sense given the parts you have for it. Any particular reason you went the upright route? And what type of games do you play on it?

**Burnt Toast** · 06-28-2009, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by sinephase

Makes sense given the parts you have for it. Any particular reason you went the upright route? And what type of games do you play on it?

I went the upright route because...well....idk why. I guess I don't really have a place to put a desktop type case. It may kinda turn into a Lanbox also because my P180 is a

to move. My TV is only 1024x768 so I can play Crysis on High with no AA, NFS: Undercover maxed with 4xAA, and Assassin's Creed maxed.I tried COD5 but it has no support for controllers and I've been using my Logitech Chillstream. I'm gonna get Worms World Party installed and I have a NES Emulator that I need to get up and running.

**sinephase** · 06-28-2009, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Burnt Toast

I went the upright route because...well....idk why. I guess I don't really have a place to put a desktop type case. It may kinda turn into a Lanbox also because my P180 is a

to move. My TV is only 1024x768 so I can play Crysis on High with no AA, NFS: Undercover maxed with 4xAA, and Assassin's Creed maxed.I tried COD5 but it has no support for controllers and I've been using my Logitech Chillstream. I'm gonna get Worms World Party installed and I have a NES Emulator that I need to get up and running.

That works out well then. I've played some playstation 1, SNES and NES on mine, worth it to have a media center pc (or HTPC, whatever). I don't have cable so I watch streaming shows on it too.

I have a P180 as well, and yeah, it's a pain (scratches really easily too..)

**DomagojX** · 06-29-2009, 03:41 AM

older

new

**Semicycle** · 07-01-2009, 04:30 PM

My First Res

I used a junction box to submerge a danner pump... I created the fill port from a soda bottle

**saint-francis** · 07-06-2009, 05:33 PM

Here's mine. It is silent aside from the damn board squealing. Pretty much everything I can cool with water is cooled with water. SB, CPU, NB, PWM and GPU. I got tired of having fans and a pump buzzing away.

Notice the Ethernet drop I put in and how my SPDIF connects to the same plate with BNC and travels through the floor to the receiver on the other side of the room .

And let's not forget how the HDD's hang from bicycle tire tubes.

**dinos22** · 07-06-2009, 05:39 PM

nice one

**apt403** · 07-06-2009, 08:12 PM

I hacked apart an old Antec PSU, cut the 24 pin connector into an 8 pin connector, and taped the wires up with scotch tape to ghetto rig my computer into working while I was waiting for an 8 pin extender. I'll get pics up when I get home in the next couple days.

Closest things I've got ATM are pics of my old suicide run setup:

The makings of a bong cooler for my E6300:

And my cooling device for my Macbook's power brick during the summer:

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