Ghetto Mods?

[MadHacker]

here is an old picture I found.




Also a pic of my old rad box


I since put 5 more 2TB drives in.
As i said i'll take better pictures tomorrow

[tiro_uspsss]

here is an old picture I found.

ahhh, I see what u have done - *very nice!
so u would have had to move on or both of those HDD column cages to accomodate those fans in the middle right? cause there isnt space in between by default..

u must have had some serious GPUs in there to justify 2x PSUs (?)

[MadHacker]

ahhh, I see what u have done - *very nice!
so u would have had to move on or both of those HDD column cages to accomodate those fans in the middle right? cause there isnt space in between by default..

u must have had some serious GPUs in there to justify 2x PSUs (?)

I removed the internal front bracket and mounted the fans directly to the front, there is exactly enough room two 120mm fans.
as for moving the the HDD columns, i only had to move the front one to make room for the fans in the middle.

I could have moved both of them closer to the front, which would have given me more room for the power supplies, but it fit as is so i left it.

as for running 2 power supplies. initialy I had only 1 PS and the air comming out of the back was very warm. adding a second one made it run cooler.
as well as afterwards overall power usage dropped by 20W with the same components.(measured from my UPS).

I run the motherboard(Q6600 OC 3.6Ghz) off of one, and Hardrives(15 of them), watercooling (2 MCP600pumps & 2 120mm fans) & case fans off of the other.

[tiro_uspsss]

I removed the internal front bracket and mounted the fans directly to the front, there is exactly enough room two 120mm fans..

so I copied your mod

http://fyez6q.bay.livefilestore.com/...%5D.jpg?psid=1


tho I have a question.. I have noted that the front of the case gets incredibly warm; if I feel the outside panels: sides, front (behind door, where the fan intake is), the case itself is nice & warm.. not so with the rest of the case.. I didnt mount mine with anything - I simply wedged them in place. Nor did I cut the front of my case up - the 2 fans must suck their air in thru the original front vents. I'm beginning to think that the vibrations caused by the fans jammed up against the 'floor' panel & the panel above them, is so much that it is creating warmth!

not sure what to do now

further more, I am amazed that, despite the fans being powerful, noisy 120x38 mm fans, that so much air flow is restricted by the stupid HDD racks

I havent installed any programs that monitor temps yet, so not sure what my HDD temps are

[MadHacker]

tho I have a question.. I have noted that the front of the case gets incredibly warm; if I feel the outside panels: sides, front (behind door, where the fan intake is), the case itself is nice & warm.. not so with the rest of the case.. I didnt mount mine with anything - I simply wedged them in place. Nor did I cut the front of my case up - the 2 fans must suck their air in thru the original front vents. I'm beginning to think that the vibrations caused by the fans jammed up against the 'floor' panel & the panel above them, is so much that it is creating warmth!

not sure what to do now

i zap strapped my fans to the HD cage so they are on there tight.

further more, I am amazed that, despite the fans being powerful, noisy 120x38 mm fans, that so much air flow is restricted by the stupid HDD racks

I know that is why i had to mod my case as it was.
creating larger vent holes in the front helped a lot..
however i had to move my power and reset switch.

I havent installed any programs that monitor temps yet, so not sure what my HDD temps are

I monitor my HD temps (home page on my server) so i can keep an eye on them
40-42 deg C is what i try to stay under. 45Deg C gets to warm. I have my alarms go of when it hits 50Deg C
if the drives aren't raided Speedfan will tell you harddrive temps.

[doonsy]

so a buddy of mine had a genius idea of using heat reflective tape on the bottom of our h50's/h70's to get rid of the heat soak from our 6970's. Oddly enough, it dropped the idle temps 3-4 degrees

[MadHacker]

so a buddy of mine had a genius idea of using heat reflective tape on the bottom of our h50's/h70's to get rid of the heat soak from our 6970's. Oddly enough, it dropped the idle temps 3-4 degrees

Is it possible that with the heat reflective tape that its just letting more air go through the rad and less air escaping out the sides?
perhaps putting tape all the way around the fan might help some more.

[doonsy]

Is it possible that with the heat reflective tape that its just letting more air go through the rad and less air escaping out the sides?
perhaps putting tape all the way around the fan might help some more.

I agree, 100% I plan on wrapping the rest tomorrow.

[cdawall]

[deanob]

so a buddy of mine had a genius idea of using heat reflective tape on the bottom of our h50's/h70's to get rid of the heat soak from our 6970's. Oddly enough, it dropped the idle temps 3-4 degrees

That was me :P
Here's mine. Definitely helped putting some on the mobo side as my Vreg's get insanely hot due to my o/c.

[MadHacker]

That was me :P
Here's mine. Definitely helped putting some on the mobo side as my Vreg's get insanely hot due to my o/c.

but wouldn't you want to dissipate the heat from the Vreg's instead of reflecting the heat back down onto them?

[MadHacker]

here is a ghetto mod direct from Asus

Holds the motherboard snug for shipping and is constructed so other component can be added

Asus motherboard box doubles as a PC case

[ABXG]

I am using a piece of foam to hold an intake fan in place of my Thermaltake V4 case:

Please excuse the terrible quality, my phone doesn't exactly feature a high end camera.

The 5.25 drive covers on the Thermaltake case are actually foam, so they act as a filter. If you place your hand in front of the case you can actually feel quite a bit of cool air entering the case. I also noticed the foam insert vibrating a lot, which indicated that it is at least doing something to reduce the noise in my case :p

[fatherTime27]

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 now she's got a more modern dell that I fixed up.....
I can't help but laugh, it was fun

lol

[BSUA]

my maybe not so ghetto, but homemade cooling solutions;

260gtx standard cooler milled down, and tapped holes appropriate for swiftech mcw60 universal block. had 2 of these running in sli for a year, then decided to remove card nr. 2 because of the vitually non-existant performance boost. decided to install it in a s775 dell, and tapped 2 more holes to mount a cpu cooler from another dell on it.

[davidkozat]

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 now she's got a more modern dell that I fixed up.....
I can't help but laugh, it was fun

WHAT?? Thats sick dude!!

[G H Z]

my maybe not so ghetto, but homemade cooling solutions

Nice. I think you'd be better off cutting a hole straight through there though so the block goes direct die.

[VIctorj]

Man, i love this thread.

How do you get rid of the FFFd up cooling system on radeon 4870x2? You ghetto mod it.

[nipps]

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/...0-4-Google.htm

[acebmxer]

^awsome!!!!!

[NEOAethyr]

A frontal view of my case and fan controller.
Yeah the plastic wrap is goofy, I did that because I was experimenting with pressure, I had to screw that up because I have no front panel to turn on my pc..., I reach through the top of my case where there's an 80mm hole to turn it on...
I just haven't removed the rest of the plastic wrap yet, it ran quite a bit cooler when she was sealed up though.
I was gonna use hot glue, but I thought plastic wrap was a better choice, which it was at the time.


This is the top view of my fan controller, I modded it, the reason why I'm posting this stuff here .
All those caps are rubycon mbz's 1500uf 16v.
I added a coil to the power input because of the way the controller works, it adds resistance to the ground to do it's controlling, so the only way of adding a filter to it without having to add one to every chan was to add on there where I did.


This is my stock cooler with 2x delta tfb's zipped tied to it lol.
Didn't help get me stable though, they are setup at a voltage level that's just about silent, my panaflo 120mm on the back of the case is louder.


I tried to find the dvi -> vga adapter that I modded a while back but I don't know where that is at the moment.
I broke a pin off to prevent it from reading the edid as an experiment, that way I didn't have to mod any cables and end up regretting it or something.

Btw the dates are way off on my pics, I just took them a min ago...
That's kind of lame...

Sorry the pics are so blurry.
My cam goes in and out of focus all the time, I have to take 10 pics of each view just to find one pic that is ok'ish.,
Usually I get cleaner shots then that though :\.
Had to take pics while she was off because my cam flips out when there's uv in the shot, all my leds are uv...

[Origin_Unknown]

Holy Dust Balls

[NEOAethyr]

Lol, if you think that's bad you should of seen it a month ago before I cleaned it.
I could of made a dust bunny shirt from all the times that I've cleaned it.

I definitely need some sort of filtering, either for my room or my pc.
It really sucks having a transparent case where you can see all that.
I don't recommend acrylic...

If I can get enough lego's together I'll build one out of those.
Either that or find a decent steal case that has alot of 5&1/4 drive bays.

[ClearDenominatr]

This tread is awesome! So many different innovations!

[tiro_uspsss]

so I have no job atm... = no $$$

& I was sick of not having a black interior to my case.... I had some 3mm MDF & 2 cans of black spray paint lying around...

before:



after:

PC off -


PC on -




I'm happy with the result