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i know its not ghetto but i dunno where i should post it

when your table is full and got no room anymore
just stack it
 
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i know its not ghetto but i dunno where i should post it

when your table is full and got no room anymore
just stack it

You did some ghetto modding with that tape :p , your acer display bezel cracked...
Display still 100% working?
 
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You did some ghetto modding with that tape :p , your acer display bezel cracked...
Display still 100% working?
whahaha just i leave it that way
its my fault i put a pen on keyboard then i closed the lid
actually the bezel is fine but the monitor gives me straight dead pixels
 
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Hey, it's been a while. Ever since I sold my Radeon R9 380, there's been an emptyness of sorts. I couldn't play anything made past 2004 at higher settings with the Intel HD 2000, even giving it a generous 200MHz+ boost didn't do much at all.

So out comes the Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT (Edit: Turns out it's the MSI version, no wonder the PCB is red) I had lying around, it had a crappy cooling solution so I intended to fix that. This is my v2 that's still a WIP, I intend to cut up an old Intel heatsink and use the pieces as heatsinks for the VRAM.

Behind the Intel fan, lies a heatsink I nabbed from a HD 3450 from ASUS. I redid the mounting slightly so it fits the PCB and doesn't get in the way of the components. Lucky for me the PCB had a ton of unused holes near the chip already. The rubber bands are for that extra home-made feel.

PROTIP: If the PCI-E contacts get gunked up, get yourself a soft pencil eraser and give it a good ol' rub (hehe boi). Once the contacts are shiny you're good to go! Note: Only do this if you don't have professional cleaning tools, it's possible to kill the card, but I haven't been able to do that myself.

I just felt like doing something to get rid of the boredom. I hope you like it!

Edit: Based on benchmarks and some older games, the Intel iGPU beats the 8500 GT by a small margin. I actually thought a dedicated GPU would run better since it is be able to run Dishonored on very low settings and TES IV: Oblivion on high settings, oh well. Maybe at some point I will pick up a GTS 450 and "upgrade" it so I could overclock it.



 
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Darn thing started acting up by refusing to powerup ,dont know if it was because of more volts from the mains or not ,summer tems or not ,dicided to do a quick fix as the relay is the culprit(controled by stand-by curcuitry): shunted the part where the relay(secondary side of it)should do its thing, as I did not find a small coil went for the solid wire at hand;also fan added ,ziptied to the frame and solderd wires to terminals of a 25Vcc capacitor,I know, but I broke a multimeter and second one is with a dead batery. The fan aint overspining I might add.
 

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Darn thing started acting up by refusing to powerup ,dont know if it was because of more volts from the mains or not ,summer tems or not ,dicided to do a quick fix as the relay is the culprit(controled by stand-by curcuitry): shunted the part where the relay(secondary side of it)should do its thing, as I did not find a small coil went for the solid wire at hand;also fan added ,ziptied to the frame and solderd wires to terminals of a 25Vcc capacitor,I know, but I broke a multimeter and second one is with a dead batery. The fan aint overspining I might add.
Power board for a TV?
 
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CD player ,Tunner,Deck player, Stereo thingy;and that shunt is only temporary fix(it's allway on like this),yet a new relay with same ratings is about 2-3$ over here(couple years back), way more than a simple switch 20-40cents of wich I have at least a working one somewhere in a box,first I'l give it a try with an automotive relay that somehow dont have to search for one.
 

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i just found these pictures on my phone and it reminded me i never posted this mod. ( unless my memory is more shagged than i thought in which case, sorry for the repeat post)


About a year ago i spotted an ad for an EVGA GTX 680 on ebay and the pic looked a little peculiar. It was an auction sale and noone else was bidding. The ad explained that the card was modded with manual fan control.


The original ebay pic





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The mod must have put everyone else off..........................I paid £ 65.00 for it and i was the only bidder. At the time they were selling for £ 120- 130

GPUZ couldnt recognize the fan percentage or RPM but still showed temps. With the fan control on the lowest setting the fan was audible but not annoyingly loud . Temps never exceeded 80 degrees even on the lowest setting though i did occasionally turn it right up to blast the dust out. I suspect the control actually overclocked the fan...:peace:


It was/is a great card....it is in a friends system now with a Xeon E5620 ( @3.9) and ASUS P5 Deluxe.

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Its not as clunky as this one but how is that gpu geting cooled, thre might be holes on the other side that I cant spot , that wall on graphics side looks imaculate.
 

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Damn, that is quite some cable spaghetti right there, I'm impressed
There are no holes, I wasn't gaming on it for the week that I waited for the case, and it was sitting at 40 degrees in fanless mode so I didn't bother to put those holes in.
 
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easiest way to prevent dust entering your case
put cover on it :p
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Haven't posted here in quite a while, so here's a megapost!

Ghetto Tower Cooler


Broken Screen Nexus 7 Repurposed as a server

Crate PC

Ghetto mod within a ghetto mod = Modception


Lost screws for GPU heatsink



HD5570 PCIe 1x


Case didn't have enough HDD mounts



Kraken G10: Ghetto Edition



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On today's menu: an ultimate SFF case mod:
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Got this little guy for $10 with a 220W(?) flex PSU. There was no hole for motherboard backplate, so I made one :D
It looks much prettier with a backplate (if I had a matching one for this board):banghead:
Updates with a final build will be posted soon. This is going to be the cheapest relatively modern office workstation I ever made.
 

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Here is my current cooling arrangement.

Its the stock cooler off an FX 8350 sitting (unclipped) on my Xeon X5670 with the addition of a passive heatsink to add weight. I cant remember what i took the heatsink out of.

My temps go from 38 - 68 degrees, its really loud and i hate it. My kids have been on holiday for the last week and have completely fleeced my PC fund so for the time being I am limited to 3.6ghz 6c/12 th

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All my games still play very well so apart from the noise i can live with it i suppose.

EDIT
the case is lying flat.
 
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On today's menu: an ultimate SFF case mod:
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Got this little guy for $10 with a 220W(?) flex PSU. There was no hole for motherboard backplate, so I made one :D
It looks much prettier with a backplate (if I had a matching one for this board):banghead:
Updates with a final build will be posted soon. This is going to be the cheapest relatively modern office workstation I ever made.
sff is nice but the layout is pretty bad
you need to cut it here and there
 
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Here is my current cooling arrangement.

Cable ties brother that'll hold that HSF on

8 is all you should need 4 for each side of the HSF

take of the back plate and just use the holes left
 

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That would mean taking the board out.....which will quickly snowball into a complete cleanout. I have just been sent a catalogue of documentaries about obscure WW 2 aircraft so im too busy for all that fuss.....:D (thanks @dorsetknob )

i just weighed the heatsink and measured a spare Xeon. The weight of the additional heatsink applies nearly 1lb per square inch of pressure....it'll do for now.

I actually prefer elastic bands when faced with a similar predicament.

 
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I invented a creative way of fixing broken SATA power ports.... with electric tape
My neighbor's kids broke it, along with SATA connector on a 1TB barracuda. The drive also survived, but my hands were busy soldering, so no pics.
IMAG1072.jpg
 
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