Ghetto Mods?

[initialised]

Who needs a 120.3?





Modded 2900XT - copper RAM shims

Coated with red gasket compound

Ill fitting DD Maze


I need a better GPU shim


320W SwifTEC Apogee GT



Koolance TEC chiller





Custom backplate


Custom VRM waterblock shim


There's a compressor in there somewhere laddie

[Kingcarcas]

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

[initialised]

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

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 :

[the_dope_chaud]

I love this thread !

Here are a few of my own :





I won a thermaltake armor with that cardboard one.











server heatsink cut up for gigabyte motherboard mofsets:



accelerated 8800gts cooling for folding:

[N00B]

My 478+agp+ddr testing table

[hollo]

hanging computer #2
-a stock s939 heatsink on a 6800 GS (held on with cable ties ), 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]

[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]

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

[initialised]

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.


This is me playing on it (or maybe I was asleep, I can't tell).


A couple more...



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.)

[TedShred]

oh man.....

[Revv23]

lol some good ones here.


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 !!!