Ghetto Mods

[99vw]

Originally Posted by Lazzer408

Ahhhhh sorry dude at first glance it looked like a 240sx engine bay. Miata? Or should I just stop guessing and ask? I don't want you to come kill me in my sleep.

[Lazzer408]

Originally Posted by 99vw

Miata?

We have a winner!

[Solaris17]

miatas are win love those cars i really want one to work on.

for peet

"mai tai"

[brandonwh64]

I seen a miata with a 302 5.0L Ford V-8 at a local car show. it was a beast

[Lazzer408]

Ok this is twice now I've inadvertently hijacked a thread with car talk (including my own thread).

Shooosh before the mods gets after me!

[mlee49]

Originally Posted by Lazzer408

Ok this is twice now I've inadvertently hijacked a thread with car talk (including my own thread).

Shooosh before the mods gets after me!

If I don't see some duct tape or zip ties I'm unsubscribing!

[Black Panther]

Hmmm, I guess pulling at an hdd cage with pliers till a 5970 graphics card fits in..... is ghetto enough?



The final result, still hadn't yet inserted the sound card:



Still to do some wire management...

[blkhogan]

This has to be one of my fav threads. Love the mods.

[ste2425]

well i wanted to repace the lame old fan in my lame old no brand psu (i no but i crnt afford a named brand psu so i thought better cooling will help stop it frying my rig), but realise that the fan inside has a two pin socket where the fan i wish to use has three. So first i splice the connector from the old fan to the new, build it all again just to find out the fan aint gettin enough juice to run at any decent speed. So i splice the original connectors back on, run the cable from a hole in the side of the psu and hook the fan for my psu upto a molex connector from the psu sorted


that wire if you can make it out is to controll the speed of the fan :P

edit: jesus i never realise how bad ive bent my psu housing... oh well

[KieX]

Originally Posted by Black Panther

Hmmm, I guess pulling at an hdd cage with pliers till a 5970 graphics card fits in..... is ghetto enough?

http://img.techpowerup.org/100221/mymod.jpg

The final result, still hadn't yet inserted the sound card:

http://img.techpowerup.org/100221/2333.jpg

Still to do some wire management...

http://img.techpowerup.org/100221/P1918_05-02-10.jpg

That made me laugh! Such a simple solution

[i43]

Some of my approx~2 year back ‘Ghetto mods’ on Antec P182 presumable side fan and NF8800Ultra outblow ‘’nozzle’’

First I tried to create some kind of ‘’ blast (blow) exhaust nozzle’’ for 8800Ultra video card - to get HOT AIR as much as possible out of antec P182 case!
Idea was - to redirect airflow out of the case directly out of the box - through rear (chassis slot) openings.
Just trying to avoid spreading hot air all around the case internal







Btw it worked - if recall correct - I got ~5 degrees difference already
cut it out from a plastic (sandwich box) food container, and taped on card (on open fins area on card) similar to:


Next , was planning an extra side fan for Antec P182 side panel,
but to figure out and test the effectiveness and the right placement, Had to build this LOL :



( This antec P182 is solid, silent case, but not any well ventilated, and internal cooling capacities are just poor - specially for OC and ‘’hot’’ hardware)
… and you maybe some remember GF 8800 series – what a heat it generated even on idle and on stock clocks ( I had Ultra)
Hope some of You .. maybe? familiar with Antec P182 … will agree with me … on this…

Also some intake air filter improvement mod for (side panel) by cutting off extra ribs ..
but this filter seems to be USELESS due its polyurethane foam sheet filtering material too much resistance




For conclusion - in general - this (supposed) extra side fan on Antec case – in co-operation with the exhaust (blow) nozzle gave significant cooling improvements!
But unfortunately I never finish it, coze soon after, find other purpose for this machine (in office)
downgraded (replaced) 8800 ‘hell-oven’ with 9600gt, downclocked E8400 to 4050 and got just a solid and SILENT! office machine LOL

[Radical_Edward]

Was watching modding guides on youtube today and had the urge to modify things.

This happened.





Thanks to the way the case front is, it doesn't matter if I put mesh or anything in front of them, it's not like anyone can see it.



My temps before....



My temps after....

[ehume]

Your fans were running at lower rpm's, and still your temps went down. Good call.

[Radical_Edward]

Yeah, my fans RPMs fluctuate a bit. Not a big deal thou.

[r9]

Originally Posted by i43

Some of my approx~2 year back ‘Ghetto mods’ on Antec P182 presumable side fan and NF8800Ultra outblow ‘’nozzle’’

First I tried to create some kind of ‘’ blast (blow) exhaust nozzle’’ for 8800Ultra video card - to get HOT AIR as much as possible out of antec P182 case!
Idea was - to redirect airflow out of the case directly out of the box - through rear (chassis slot) openings.
Just trying to avoid spreading hot air all around the case internal

http://img.techpowerup.org/100302/IMG_7228.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/100302/0005_IMG_7021.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/100302/0006_IMG_7022.jpg

Btw it worked - if recall correct - I got ~5 degrees difference already
cut it out from a plastic (sandwich box) food container, and taped on card (on open fins area on card) similar to:
http://img.techpowerup.org/100302/FT-62.jpg

Next , was planning an extra side fan for Antec P182 side panel,
but to figure out and test the effectiveness and the right placement, Had to build this LOL :
http://img.techpowerup.org/100302/IMG_7232.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/100302/IMG_7238.jpg

( This antec P182 is solid, silent case, but not any well ventilated, and internal cooling capacities are just poor - specially for OC and ‘’hot’’ hardware)
… and you maybe some remember GF 8800 series – what a heat it generated even on idle and on stock clocks ( I had Ultra)
Hope some of You .. maybe? familiar with Antec P182 … will agree with me … on this…

Also some intake air filter improvement mod for (side panel) by cutting off extra ribs ..
but this filter seems to be USELESS due its polyurethane foam sheet filtering material too much resistance
http://img.techpowerup.org/100302/IMG_7262.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/100302/IMG_7259.jpg

For conclusion - in general - this (supposed) extra side fan on Antec case – in co-operation with the exhaust (blow) nozzle gave significant cooling improvements!
But unfortunately I never finish it, coze soon after, find other purpose for this machine (in office)
downgraded (replaced) 8800 ‘hell-oven’ with 9600gt, downclocked E8400 to 4050 and got just a solid and SILENT! office machine LOL

Nice job for the card added exaust.

[BazookaJoe]

Am I late to the party?

This is an old PC, one of my earliest works - long since replaced... I built it to prove a point to an ass who thought his silly little logitech system was sooo 1337...

Those Old PUS's ran the Amplifiers that where under the table, sadly not visible. The Odd looking "L" shaped one came from an old old 286 I had many years ago. That in itself is Ghetto Modded, see home sprayed red fan

Yes, a million years ago I was already modding my 286..

[Cold Storm]

That's something else Bazookajoe. One of a kind for sure.



Well, I went to try and see if I can get the cards cool enough..





came out like this





*dust added for realism*


It's knocked it, while changing the tim on the first card, down quite a bit.



Final:

[BazookaJoe]

In the Spirit of the Bump, I also bring some close ups of the front panel fan bracket I made. (Also very old)...

It was made from some decals that I got at an esoteric market stand, the fan grid from a scrapped Cooler Master HAC-V81 “XDream”, the backplate was thick plastic cover to a "Peterbilt" Truck master maintenance manual that I had cut up with a craft knife, and a random 8CM fan I got at a pc store.

It jammed in 2 CD-Rom Drive bays, and was for added airflow on my overclocked AMD Barton 2500+

(Can be seen in use on a case in my previous "SUBS" picture)

[Radical_Edward]

Not anything to fancy, just a 160GB laptop HDD rigged up into a normal HDD removable slot for my CM 690.





It's sturdy, and isn't going anywhere. You'd be surprised what you can do with two screws and a bit of thinking!

[p_o_s_pc]

@Bazooka how do you have teh amps wires to he PSUs?

[BazookaJoe]

Originally Posted by p_o_s_pc

@Bazooka how do you have the amps wires to he PSUs?

First of all, find one of these coming out of yer PSU, and cut it off.

The YELLOW line is 12v+ and either one of the BLACK lines are GND, and there's your power for the AMP (I am using CAR amp's)



Then, on this end of the PSU, connect the GREEN pin to one of the BLACK pins to make the PUS power up so you can run your amp - In the picture below I have used a paperclip.



You can also cut off all of those extra cables and connect a lamp switch to the green & black wires as an on/off switch, however I must warn that doing this WILL void any warranty on the device, and be downright dangerous.

If you are feeling even MORE dangerous, you can climb into the PSU and find one of the variable resistors / "pots" that regulates its output voltage and crank the 12V line up to about 13.8V for best results with your amp, but this is also quite dangerous , and is not necessary as 12V will power the amp almost perfectly. (NOT ALL PSU"S HAVE ONE OF THESE)

[mlee49]

What happens when you touch the paperclip while it's powered on?

[BazookaJoe]

Originally Posted by mlee49

What happens when you touch the paperclip while it's powered on?

Nothing - That's pretty harmless it's just a soft switch - virtually no voltage or current.

... that said, I would definitely refrain from LICKING the paperclip... but any accidental external contact should be quite safe.

[Radical_Edward]

Got bored today and put the Rexus NMB fan back in my case. Just some clever screw placement and removing two of the secondary faceplates.

[ste2425]

Originally Posted by BazookaJoe

First of all, find one of these coming out of yer PSU, and cut it off.

The YELLOW line is 12v+ and either one of the BLACK lines are GND, and there's your power for the AMP (I am using CAR amp's)

http://img.techpowerup.org/100322/psupins1.jpg

Then, on this end of the PSU, connect the GREEN pin to one of the BLACK pins to make the PUS power up so you can run your amp - In the picture below I have used a paperclip.

http://img.techpowerup.org/100322/psupins2.jpg

You can also cut off all of those extra cables and connect a lamp switch to the green & black wires as an on/off switch, however I must warn that doing this WILL void any warranty on the device, and be downright dangerous.

If you are feeling even MORE dangerous, you can climb into the PSU and find one of the variable resistors / "pots" that regulates its output voltage and crank the 12V line up to about 13.8V for best results with your amp, but this is also quite dangerous , and is not necessary as 12V will power the amp almost perfectly. (NOT ALL PSU"S HAVE ONE OF THESE)

very very useful could have done with that a while ago cheers
edit could that be used if say a transformer in my amps blown?