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Ghetto Mods

mlee49 said:
So it's kinda like a scroll wheel right?

I like the thumb buttons but think a second scroll wheel in place of the buttons would be a better alternative.
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I would really like to see you do it... ;) It is possible... :rolleyes: But its kinda useless. :shadedshu

Only for Flip3D (normal mode) or DPI adjusting while pressing X or Y button behind the scroll wheel (game mode)
 
I used a 12" house fan for this mod. It cooled my 1GHz AXIA quite well!

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Socket A heatsink + 92mm fan + zip ties = ghetto HDD cooler :laugh:

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I got a Antec spotcool and the fan wasn't mounted right, so I fixed it. :laugh:

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The zip ties were my "clamps" until the two part rubber epoxy dried.

Worked great, Bogmali actually has it now. Hopefully it's working well for him.
 
Behold the monstrosity of... the Super FanBox! D:

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So yeah. One molex power input, the controller from my Sniper's old top panel, and you can connect up to 5 fans to it as long as you have a molex to 3-pin for each one. Designed for external use. I was really bored.
 
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The Stabilization Unit made me lol.
 
Thrackan said:
The Stabilization Unit made me lol.
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:laugh: I had to put something in there to keep the box from spinning around when I turned the knob.
 
Thats a nice little box there are you hiding it or trying to show its pimpness off?
 
BazookaJoe said:
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.
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Got a shock today on a 300w psu. was open and i touched underneath while grabbing it. Still alive. :P Anyway I got heavier shock with a car battery lol

Got an old P3 667mhz coppermine , 20gigs, will put 3 X 128 megs rams in it and ...intel board D815EEA everything onboard. Thinking about gettho modding it in the locker room in a drawer or screw it to the wall and add wireless to it :P Gonna be good if im outside repairing my car.
 
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MohawkAngel said:
Got a shock today on a 300w psu. was open and i touched underneath while grabbing it. Still alive. :P
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Was that when your avatar photo was taken? :roll:
 
ste2425 said:
Was that when your avatar photo was taken? :roll:
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LOL. No it's took from a humour clip of a french guy.
At the moment I clicked Print screen he's saying... "The smokers are polite and low profile AAAHAHAHAAHA *cough* *cough* *coughhhhhhhh"
At this moment he smiles and we see his smokers teeth :P
 
MohawkAngel said:
Got a shock today on a 300w psu. was open and i touched underneath while grabbing it. Still alive. :P Anyway I got heavier shock with a car battery lol

Got an old P3 667mhz coppermine , 20gigs, will put 3 X 128 megs rams in it and ...intel board D815EEA everything onboard. Thinking about gettho modding it in the locker room in a drawer or screw it to the wall and add wireless to it :P Gonna be good if im outside repairing my car.
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Hell yeah you did!

There are 300Volt+ capacitors in some PSU's.... I'm talking about playing with the cables OUTSIDE the PSU :)

Those on the OUTSIDE (The ones you you would normally connect to the components of your pc) are virtually completely harmless, providing you don't do anything stupid like short them out...

The Junk on the INSIDE connects directly to mains power dude - those AINT for playing with, and I'm quite certain ARE quite dangerous.

...Unless its really REALLY fun :)

I remember a few months ago I was trying to reassemble my smashed camera CanonA720IS - (and actually succeeded) - the batteries had been out for a few days and when I was working near the flash capacitor it thwacked me so hard I involuntarily threw the camera across the room and smashed it up even more - it burned pictures of the circuit board terminals into my fingers.

Assuming now that this damn thing had had it's fun with me and discharged I continued to now attempt to RE-Re-assemble the camera during which process it smacked me a further 7 ffking times!

Every time leaving me assuming OK - SURELY it hasn't got any juice left... Although obviously the zaps did get significantly weaker as I went along - It really almost became a game of "Can I do this without getting hit again"

Point is that flash capacitors can be well over 1000Volts - and those big caps can hold a charge for quite some time... Even the ones in small cameras...
 
8 amps and 110v input in this psu i got ....mean i could have get busted at 880watts. luckily i did not. but im quite resistant to electricity. i can remember one time touching my neon desk light with wet fingers....all lights flashing in the home from surge but i got nothing lol.
 
you got some really nice mods overhere guys....nice work
 
I guess I forgot to post this here...

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Tin snips FTW!
 
this is my GPU cooling mod :D , very proud of it , it`s pretty quiet and keeps the gpu`s temp below 55 degrees celsius




and this is a little mod for the audio card , just to keep it cool .

 
So! I have this Lian Li Rocketfish case here and as you can see, the top of it has been drilled, cut and abused into something that looks like a disturbing sexual device:
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A new top was needed, however to purchase a new top would cost me about the same amount of cash as it cost to buy the complete case itself! So off to the hardware store I went and picked up a furnace vent cover and a can of black hammered spray paint for around ten dollars. A bit of cutting and painting and viola!

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I can now hide my massacre with pride while fitting a triple radiator up top. I'll have some better pictures done with a proper camera when it's all put together. :toast:
 
Well, due to the heat of summer, I was forced to do some modding in order to keep temps down.

I zip tied a 80mm fan to my 5770, since the stock cooler doesn't cut it unless the fan is set really high, which is loud.

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This helped temps by about 3*C idle, and 6*C under load.


Then just a few minutes ago, I cut the back of my case so I could use a fan grill instead, now more air is able to flow through.

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Erocker going to have to do what you did me thinks, my Transformer looks AWFUL now I don't have the rad.
 
I do rather enjoy my ghetto mods. Most recently I ran a test and found out that my CPU's MOSFETs were getting disturbingly hot, which paved the way to several (ghetto) cooling improvements.

I decided to add choke heatsinks so I cut up an old heatsink off an Nvidia northbridge using a hacksaw. I then filed the edges and sanded the bottom to a reasonable shine:
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I put them on the chokes but then I needed a fan so I used a single sheathed conductor from 14AWG romex cable (which is essentially a solid coper wire with a highly insulative PVC jacket) which allowed me to make a semi-permanent adjustable fan mount:
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Here's another picture showing the MOSFETs and the new choke heatsinks:
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Finally I added a 40mm fan to my northbridge (which is not ghetto) and a 40mm fan to my southbridge (which is ghetto). The 40mm fan shown on my southbridge was recovered from a system several years ago and was actually glued back together. It's attached with a paperclip which wraps around the southbridge heatsink's retention screws:
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I made a lot more insanely ghetto mods over the years but unfortunately for you (and me) I bought my first camera (ever) only 6 months ago so I have no pictures.
 
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is that 40nm fan loud?
 
KainXS said:
is that 40nm fan loud?
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I don't have any 40nm fans, but I do have two 40mm fans, both of which are fairly quiet. I can't hear them over the sound of the six 120mm fans in my case unless I lean in really close (practically with my ear on the mobo). At that distance I can tell the 40mm fan attached with a paper clip to my southbridge is rattling a bit.

I think it's important to note that I have a very loud PC, and I don't mind it as long as it's a constant hum and not a high pitched whir. I'm waiting on a Scythe SY1212SL12H 120mm slim case fan and then I'll have:
7x120mm fans on my case
1x120mm fan on my cpu
1x120mm fan on my PSU
1x80mm fan on my case
1x50mm fan on my CPU's PWM circuit
1x40mm fan on my northbridge
1x40mm fan on my southbridge
=13 fans

So yeah, sound isn't really that much of an issue though I think the cumulative noise of my computer is still under 45dBA.
 
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