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Old Dec 22, 2008, 09:15 PM   #1
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Ghetto modders club

Where Ghetto Mods get born...
Alright, before I start to ruin more topics by expressing my sometimes ridiculously off-topic fiddling and tinkering thoughts, I decided to create a special place where all of us tinker-thinkers can come and put their tinkering ideas.

Wot's that? Care to elaborate on the matter?
But of course! I'm the kind of guy that sees stuff lying around in his room and wants to make something with it. Many of these mods will be referred to as ghetto mods, as they will utilise zero or very little freshly bought goods.
Making leftover stuff into something new, useless or not, is something of a sport to me.

But how do I participate? Does it involve picking numbers/my nose?
Nay, nothing special is needed. Just spare parts otherwise cluttering a random space in your room, and a little inspiration for yourself and others.
This club is both for displaying ideas and to ask for them. Think of it as a think tank.
Of course, input is highly appreciated.

An example using two standard fangrills, eight screws and two HDD's:



My current "inventory":
A copper-core Core2Duo cooler
Several 80/92mm fans
some 80/92mm fangrills
TONS OF SCREWS
two big things that are meant to be fangrills but suck at it due to turbulence noice

Leftover cables (16 of em) from a 20-24 pin converter plus a 20pin female/male set
Some cutoff molex cabling
Copper braid I just cut out of a rounded IDE cable
The fanduct formerly residing on the side of my mATX case
An old working PSU with a crap noisy fan (doesn't necessarily have to survive)
Lots, and lots of ducttape

Current ideas (in random order):
Whack the aluminum fins off of the stock cooler and gaze at the shiny copper
Make some interesting concept cooling using the copper braid or summit on the stock cooler
Find out if mounting an 80mm fan on the bottom of the stock cooler really is as pointless as I think it is
Also, the heatsink fits exactly inside the fan duct somehow

Alright! I think I like this kind of stuff!
Great! Feel free to show your ghetto modding here and hopefully help some fellow fiddlers to build something amazingly simple and cool!
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Old Dec 22, 2008, 10:11 PM   #2
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wish i still had pictures of my ghetto mounted 12cm fan on my old S1, damn that GT ran cool and silent.

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i have a problem, my case gets filled with gf's cats fur, and my case is a real peice of junk [its in my system specs

i was thinking about takeing it down and filling all the holes with tape, except maybe the holes on 1 side, and filtering them with a dryer sheet taped on the side of the case.... does that count? or is that like, sub ghetto

packing tape btw
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Old Dec 22, 2008, 10:33 PM   #4
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this is the current WR holder for radeon 7500's
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I used velcro to hold in my DVD drives once because I couldn't find a screwdriver.

In fact, I sold that PC to a friend and they're still in place last I saw.
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Old Dec 22, 2008, 10:57 PM   #6
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Lol... I *Heart* this thread Already!
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Old Dec 22, 2008, 11:00 PM   #7
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this is the current WR holder for radeon 7500's
you been droped a few more on some just so you know
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Crap. I dunno if I still have pics of my 7600GS. I attached an 80MM fan to its passive heatsink a while ago.
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Old Dec 23, 2008, 03:02 AM   #9
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you been droped a few more on some just so you know
crap i did didnt i hmmm i need a C2D mobo my 3000+ cant keep pace
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i have a problem, my case gets filled with gf's cats fur, and my case is a real peice of junk [its in my system specs

i was thinking about takeing it down and filling all the holes with tape, except maybe the holes on 1 side, and filtering them with a dryer sheet taped on the side of the case.... does that count? or is that like, sub ghetto

packing tape btw
Making fan filters out of say, pantyhose, is a very legit ghetto mod

Good to see people like this thread! Personally, I'm gonna chuck the Core2Duo cooler in the freezer and see if that helps to get the fins off of the core. I'm really thinking about making a new cooler out of it using copper braiding.
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Old Jan 4, 2009, 05:51 PM   #11
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Excellent idea for a thread Thracken
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ha ill post a pic of my radoen 7000 with a fan zip tied haa
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i need some way to mount two 5.25 hard drives...but it has to mount perpendicular to the bottom of my case...idea's?
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Old Jan 26, 2009, 05:19 PM   #14
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i need some way to mount two 5.25 hard drives...but it has to mount perpendicular to the bottom of my case...idea's?
5.25" HDD's?

well, I'd start with ducttape, until you fix something better...
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5.25" HDD's?

well, I'd start with ducttape, until you fix something better...

oh wait...hard drives are smaller aren't they my optical drive is 5.25" :P what ever! i just need some way to mount hard drives in my case...i guess it would be easier if i posted pics of it huh?
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Old Jan 26, 2009, 05:33 PM   #16
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worked for me...
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heres how i mounted my drives lol.

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uhh...not going to work in my scenario im thinking mounting tape...
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I wish I took pictures at the time but I dismantled a fridge to try use the cooling equiptment in it. I found a extremely fast 120mm that I could stuck to my 8800GTS.
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ok i just made have to do some more ghetto-ness with my mod...it is already a plexiglass cube with steel brackets and holes made from jigsaws
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I've got a bent coat hanger holding an 80mm fan over my northbridge chip. I'll post pics when I get home. It's fabulously trashy looking.
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Its my first post, so be easy. This was all for fun, nothing was meat to happen!



ATI Rage 128mb run with a custom pot and dry ice.

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ATI Rage 128mb run with a custom pot and dry ice.

EHH! That's wicked!
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ATI Rage 128mb run with a custom pot and dry ice.

thats not a ghetto computer, thats a ghetto trash can with cord attached to it.
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