MicroFly/Qpack MODernize

[craigbru]

She absolutely loved it. She said she was going to try and top me for my birthday...

 

[Scrizz]

mmm good stuff
and welcome Craig

 

[MKmods]

Big mistake posting the pict of the wife....At first I was content just pilfering some Chicken Cordon Bleu... Now its the hottie im gonna steal....

OK back on track...I got all the stuff sold and shipped, bye bye AMD (for now).

I am gonna post up some things for Thracken over at Bad Boys of Modding today and tomorrow I will commence with the mobo soldering..

 

[craigbru]

mmm good stuff
and welcome Craig

Thanks man!

Big mistake posting the pict of the wife....At first I was content just pilfering some Chicken Cordon Bleu... Now its the hottie im gonna steal....

OK back on track...I got all the stuff sold and shipped, bye bye AMD (for now).

I am gonna post up some things for Thracken over at Bad Boys of Modding today and tomorrow I will commence with the mobo soldering..

Well, you're still 1500 miles away... Even though I won't be able to make it to any events on the west coast this year, I plan on making it to some next year. If I do, you'll likely get to meet her.

I'm looking forward to more soldering goodness Mark!

 

[MKmods]

I will make much more effort to attend the west coast events as well, keep me informed.
(trying to get to Intels Sac show this month if I can get a seat or 2)

 

[masbuskado]

I must say this...!!!
I don't know how but we get almost the same idea about plugin the board from the back...!!!

...am working in something similar but nothing like this you are very good with the soldering wow...!!!

 

[MKmods]

I must say this...!!!
I don't know how but we get almost the same idea about plugin the board from the back...!!!

...am working in something similar but nothing like this you are very good with the soldering wow...!!!

Thank you very much and welcome to the thread..

I have done many of these mods for the last few years, they get better every time I do one (I learn new tricks ecah time I do one). Right now I am modding each pin and the plug so I can remove this mobo and plug it into another case as well.

I have to remove the small clips that prevent the pin from being removed from the plastic housing (or I would never be able to replace any pins)

Each pin requires me to remove/install the plastic part to check for proper fit

 

[Mark_Hardware]

Sweet more tedious work. Are you gonna cover the connector on the other side, so people aren't like, "wtf? there's no power cable connected?!"

 

[MKmods]

lol, thats the fun part... watching people keep insisting it cant work because there is no wires....

Yep I am gonna make some CF parts to use as covers.

 

[masbuskado]

Thank you very much and welcome to the thread..

I have done many of these mods for the last few years, they get better every time I do one (I learn new tricks ecah time I do one). Right now I am modding each pin and the plug so I can remove this mobo and plug it into another case as well.

I have to remove the small clips that prevent the pin from being removed from the plastic housing (or I would never be able to replace any pins)
http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo142/Partspicts/Picture046-1.jpg

Each pin requires me to remove/install the plastic part to check for proper fit
http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo142/Partspicts/Picture047-2.jpg

I try that in small scale first...!
I change the the P4 and all the 3 pin fan connector to the back just like you did... I was thinking the same with the PSU connector but there was to many soldering and I didn't wanna screw the mobo... but after watching you doing it I can ask you question about it!!!
Nicely done...!!!

 

[MKmods]

The trick is a clean surface, clean soldering iron (nothing fancy just reg 25watt iron with fine tip)

If it takes longer than 1 or 2 seconds to solder stop there is a prob. If you keep the heat too long there is chance to damage the board.

One more thing, the guy at the electronics store told me to get a grounded soldering iron (which I did) but I used a cheap $3 ungrounded iron for many years with no problems.

and since I seem to be in a good mood and giving away all my secrets I use 63/37 solder (dries much quicker, melts at lower temp then the reg 60tin/40lead stuff)

LOL, I wonder what Foxconn would say if they saw this pict

24 pin is done, now on to the 8 pin.

 

[DanishDevil]

Gotta love the box of power adapter thingys. Reminds me of legos

And, I think they would be upset with you for making Foxconn bisexual

 

[MKmods]

when I have extra mobos laying around I take the heat gun to them and remove all the plugs (even the PCI Express x16 ones, never know when I need one of those)

 

[DanishDevil]

Those poor, poor, abused mobos. I wouldn't like it if you put a heat gun to me and removed all my plugs What did those boards ever do to deserve that kind of dismemberment!?!?

 

[freaksavior]

Those poor, poor, abused mobos. I wouldn't like it if you put a heat gun to me and removed all my plugs What did those boards ever do to deserve that kind of dismemberment!?!?

and the psu's he has and has had

 

[DanishDevil]

I think MKmods is the hannibal lecter of PC components

 

[MKmods]

 

[m4gicfour]

Gotta love the box of power adapter thingys. Reminds me of legos

And, I think they would be upset with you for making Foxconn bisexual

Well, technically, it's not bisexual (swings both ways), it's hermaphrodite (both male and female... organs). Now, if you plugged it into mark's custom PSU and a standard PSU into the top, It'd be a bisexual hermaphrodite (everyone has a gender; even if they are biologically both).

Now THAT's phuxxed up. I wonder if that would work, or burn the house down? I get ideas everytime I come in here...

edit

BAHHHHHHHAHAHAH I love the mad scientist! Suits you.

 

[MKmods]

LOL, thanks guys for making me laugh ....

One sweet thing about the X58mobo is no extra power plugs for the GPUs....sweet less soldering....

 

[m4gicfour]

lol, I don't know; being philosophical about gender-ambiguous hardware?

The other part I was wondering what would happen if both ATX connectors were connected to a PSU. Would they effectively load balance each other and the result be more stable power and more available watts or would the whole thing just go up in the Mysterious Blue Smoke™

 

[Wile E]

lol, I don't know; being philosophical about gender-ambiguous hardware?

The other part I was wondering what would happen if both ATX connectors were connected to a PSU. Would they effectively load balance each other and the result be more stable power and more available watts or would the whole thing just go up in the Mysterious Blue Smoke™

It would work like parallel redunant psus. The redundancy adapters basically hook the psus up in the same manner.

 

[MKmods]

well I dont know about multiple PSs.. seems hard enough just keeping the wires straight with one....

Tomorrow I need to make a new PS shell (the plugs are moved over a bit with this mobo) I am excited to see if this new hardware fires up (or explodes)

I also had a chance to take a look at the heat tube coolers on the mobo and they dont impress me too much. I am making some new Black Enzo coolers (copper looks out of place) And a new CF mount for the CPU cooler..

Its hard to see but the part that makes contact with the Intel Chipset used tape(not the best) and it was only making contact with about half of the surface.

Its a big prob with coolers that span a large distance, its really hard to get them to make contact at all points.

 

[BrooksyX]

love the new avatar MK. I think it fits you well!

MKMods - The crazy mad PC case modding guru!!!

 

[MKmods]

I never gave much thought to avatars...But the more I see it the funnier it is, some time I would like to replace the test tube with a soldering iron...

 

[Wile E]

I never gave much thought to avatars...But the more I see it the funnier it is, some time I would like to replace the test tube with a soldering iron...

Or a dremel.