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Image Above Provided by: LittleCarrot Welcome to the Brand New Update for the Modding FAQ Post This has been quite the work giving the FAQ a new look from the old text based version and I hope everyone here enjoys it and find it useful. The old version however is not gone, for anyone who still wants to view it with the same up to date info I will leave a link to it HERE. This thread will go over some of the most common mods, contain information on sleeving, painting components, templates, modding, and more with detailed instructions for all the mods. If there is anything you want to see added, or contribute let me know by either posting below or messaging me I'm always open to new ideas. General Wiring Modding Painting
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is the a step by step tear-down an guide for replacing the thermal pads an paste for my gpus which are the XFX Speedster SWFT210 Radeon RX 6650XT CORE Gaming Graphics Card & the XFX Speedster MERC319 Radeon RX 6750XT Black Gaming Graphics Card ? i need a guild so i can upgrade both over the stock thermal pads an paste with the Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pad for the gpu chip an SWECENT Thermal Pad 1.5mm 12.8 W/mK [120x20x1.5mm] for the vrams an chokes , ive seen an heard that replacing the stock thermal pads an paste with these give on avg a 10c temp drop for idle an load temps which sounds really good.
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The Hyte Y60 is a proper good case, but the side panel adjacent to the vertical GPU mount is very close to the graphics card itself. For larger GPUs, it makes more sense to take off the side panel for thermals. I was wondering if anyone knows of any services that would be able to make a replacement side panel with vents for better GPU temps? Acrylic would work here, so it doesn't have to be tempered glass.
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Here is how and why people delid CPUs in a nutshell : improving performances and temps. I was thinking documenting the process would be interesting, since I re-pasted both my 13700f and my 13900; It is relatively safe to do if you follow the guidelines. I started heating the CPU with my hot air soldering station at 200c for 2 min, but if you have a heat gun it will do the job as well; Then I pulled the lid with my deliding tool and some tweezers, do not touch it with your fingers it is hot. I removed as much soldering material as I could with a razor blade, then I applied some polish until I removed everything and I removed all silicone glue Liquid metal can be tricky to apply if you are not used to, you need to apply this on both your CPU die and lid, for un-experimented modders I would recommend not to place the syringe directly on the CPU die and put some heat resistant glue on some CPU parts to protect them because liquid metal conducts electricity, you don't want to see what happens when a CPU gets short-circuited. Then I had to glue back the lid in place. I ran different tests before/after, and I got a 4c difference which is nice; Let me know if you guys are interested by some more detailed intel about this.
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Epic games is fine with modding Fortnite as long as it dosen't touch their server and since Fortnite is Unreal, Private Servers do exist here is one of the best ones that lets you play every current version of the game offline https://github.com/Lawin0129/LawinServer.
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Before we start you need to look at yourself if you need to tell me that old processors aren't as fast as newer ones. I have 2 lenovo A70 systems they're old but have 4gb ram each, theyre towers with PCIE support so very modular, run cool and quiet, support windows 10 & 11(microsoft have issues) and have gigabit ethernet. There is enough here for a decent desktop experience but modern games, some productivity software and WEB BROWSERS will choke on this budget pentium cpu as well as windows 10 background tasks. The one thing I wont attempt is using old storage when basic SSDs are so cheap, the system supports sata 2 which is plenty for a responsive system. Theres a Kioxia 240gb ssd dangling in the below photo but it will be getting a 3d printed bracket. E5800 pentium performance in 2023 The system was really unresponsive with 90% or 100% cpu utilisation browsing the web. The geekbench score of 382 single core and 618 multicore nails the performance issue here. The mod Its possible to use old xeon 771 chips in core 2 duo/quad era motherboards often going from single/dual core 65nm chips to full blown 45m quad core chips that can overclock to 4ghz. The mod requires a bios patched with xeon microcodes, a taped sticker on the cpu pins and either the motherboard alignment pins cut out with a 18mm snap off knife or pre modded cpu from china. As I already own an x5460 I found premodded bios files for my system and flashed them via windows. This youtuber modded the bios, I tried to do patch myself but couldnt get the patcher to recognise a current Lenovo .rom file. Install As I was feeling traditional after dissaseembly I dropped my new cpu onto the socket pins. Using a microscope and steel soldering tweezers the one bent pin got mostly bent back. A cmos reset was required without it posted but wouldnt get to windows. Cmos reset by removing the CR2032, unplugging hdmi and mains cable then holding the power button. Cooling Its really obvious that this system needed new thermal paste on the cpu, northbridge, southbridge and gpu but I think we forget how bad modern cooling can be. Even though the system came with only a 65w pentium chip the system still came as standard with a bulky aluminium heatsink and thick modular fan and fully supports my 120w xeon cpu. The experience Using this system is night and day better its so much more responsive and doesnt get become unresponsive from windows update or anti virus scans. Browsing the internet is responsive and video playback works in HD. Booting the computer is much faster with 16.4 seconds to the windows login screen or 20 seconds to desktop. The new geekbench score with a 10.7% imrovement in single core performance thanks to the extra cache on the premium xeon and 90% improvement in multicore performance. The caveat The old geforce 8400 graphics card is lacking while its got some video accleration in the form of 'second generation PureVideo HD' for h264 which DOES improve playback in vlc, youtube uses vp9 and seems to be moving back to that from av1, while I can playback 4k30 content at 84% utilisation its not a zero impact thing like on a 12th gen system with vp9 acceleration. Alternatives The 3.16ghz xeon x5460 is about the best cpu you can expect to pickup at a reasonable price but other options like the intel 2.8ghz q9505, q9500 and q9550 or 2.66ghz q9400 share a similar used price and cache and if you're using a non oem mobo its not unreasonable to overclock those cpus to well beyond the 3.16ghz I achieved. Yes its easy to pickup better samples but its the used market and depends on your area. Lenovo_ThinkCentre A70_L-IG41M2_BIOS_MOD.zip
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I've modded my Corsair SPEC 01, I've taken the hard drive bay out, and the two hard drives that I have, I sticked them with velcro in the optical drive bay. Now I think the build looks a lot better, tell me what you think. Sorry for crappy picture quality.
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I plan to use mini-box's openups to power a minipc and a few other electronics related to building a laptop. While i've read all documentation several times, I was wondering if anyone has experience pushing it past the 6amp nominal load rating to the 10amp peak rating. Im not unfamiliar to cooling mods and was under the assumption I would be making a custom heat sink for it, along with one for my 7940hs as its stock cooler is limited to only 90w(ships @ 65w), 120-150w being the goal for this gen and next gens peak apu.
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Hi Guys, i am interested in modding my Logitech G610 but i am not sure what parts i can pick seeing as i am pretty new to this and have never modded a keyboard before! So currently i have cherry mx reds but i want to switch to Gateron Pro Milky Yellows. Would there be any issues or can i just directly solder them to the pcb? Gateron Pro Milky Yellow Switch | Candykeys I would also like to add white LEDs. I think they should fit but please correct me if i am wrong! LED 2x3x4mm | Candykeys As for the new Keycaps i have decided go for the following set: Double-Shot PBT Cherry Profile Full Set Keycaps - Grey, White and Blue (keychron.de) In the description it mentions that there minor interferences with north facing LEDs, which i why i mentioned them above. Would that still work for me? Sorry if these are stupid questions but it's wanted to make sure that everything will work and that i don't totally destroy the keyboard!
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as an alt to my amd/truenas/pop-os server rig design would a Custom Dell Precision T5810 Workstation work an be able to power an run all this https://pcpartpicker.com/user/DEADFRED55/saved/VQCqdC or would i need to up the psu watt an if so would this https://www.365powersupply.com/product/ft7t6-825w-for-dell-precison-t5810-t7810-t7610-t7910-power-supply-d825ef-02/ work an be enough __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 reason for my alternative server rig concept is 1 the pci lane diff as the e5-2650 v4 has 40 lanes vs both the 2 amd cpu's both just being 20 which i would think benefit my desired layout an 2 the amd an desired mobo max ram of 128gb an the dell's having the option of 512gb which if it can power an handle my stated an desired loadout i really want the 512gb option so i can dedicate to the main os (truenas) 128gb's & pop-os in VM 64gb's an each of the android vm's 32gb's for a total config 128+64+32+32 an between having the 2 x internal 12tb hard drives id like to run same as i would with the AMD build 2 x SABRENT USB 3.2 4 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station (DS-SC4B each with 4 x of the same drive which id like to run the 2 x internal 12tb's & each of the DS-SC4B in raid 10 an iv heard the truenas core while running zfs needs a lot of run as in 1gb of ram per 1gb or tb of storage so with a combined total storage of 120tb or 60tb depending on how that factors when running in raid 10 i figure with truenas an the vm's an all that storage the 256gb to 512gb of ram would be helpful. so any thoughts or advice an info on all this would help.
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Hello everyone, I´m looking for the holy grail of keyboards. What does this mean? I´ll explain... I´m searching for a low-profile mechanical keyboard preferably a 100% layout hot-swap switch. I know there is stuff like the Keychron K5, but I´d like to mod my keyboard for dead silence in the office. So lubing is not the problem, but the o-rings which wouldn´t fit are. Low-profile and o-rings are not matching well, so I´d like to know if there is a really flat keyboard with full-size mx switches hot swap. I know there is the Roccat Vulcan ( I already have the tkl for private use modded) and this would be fine if those switches were hot-swappable. (I can tell you that soldering work was a pain) Does anyone have an idea what I could do or combine ? I thought about a TKL and separate numpad, but that's just the lack of opportunities. Thanks
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So I was wondering if it might be a good bet to do something like this instead of buying a new GPU, but at the same time what would the cost be and where would you even find someone who could do it for you, i've seen all the videos about the cards and read the articles and was wondering if anybody does this sort of stuff and would it be a viable choice over buying a new GPU, thanks in advance for the replies
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while i haven't been able to find a compatible full waterblock for my power color fighter 6700xt (twin fan) to bring my load temps down from a avg peak idle avg 27.5c load avg 67.7c (during the winter) in a 68deg room to avg 34.5c peak idle to avg 78.7c load (during the summer) in 72deg room with a well ventilated case 5 x 120mm noctua 3000rpm fans iv been thinking about thermal solution augments for the 6700xt such as replacing the thermal pasta with thermal pads like my cpu's [Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pad] an try this on the gpu core an the ARCTIC TP-3: Premium Performance Thermal Pad on the vrms or the the arctic on both core an vrms my goal would be to at bare minimum get 8c in reduction any more like 10 - 12c an i would be even happier so id like thoughts , idea's , an advice on this an if anyone's got a step by step for this gpu's tear down so i can down it right would be much appreciated my gear loadout LITTLE YELLOW BEAST fyi if you think temps are affected negatively by this layout there actually a bit better as the old layout when the gpu was horizontal an rear aio as exhaust everything was 8c hotter at both idle an load they as cool as the are now after re-config ther no diff with 1-1/2 intake on the gpu as before but it vertical an with the rear exhaust fan freed up ther is , an the same for the cpu with front mount aio in pull config.
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im not sure wither or not to do the psu shroud in the same red or do it in the gold / yellow like the trim your thoughts
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HP EliteDesk 705 G4 setup & modding advice needed
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does this HP EliteDesk 705 G4 Mini with Quad-Core Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE have a uefi boot up menu for oc an other tweaks ? i want to load with pop os an might have to disable secure boot if it has it an id like to oc the cpu an tweak the voltages if possible short of just using corectrl app on the desktop if it doesn't have a uefi can i load something like core boot https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08L9NB7RD/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A3RUF4WM0ZIQQN -
Hello, I received a Fenda F770X as a gift. Sadly the noise is quite bad. At lower volumes it dilutes the sound and when nothing is playing it is more noticeable than my PC fans. As it is a gift and that the giver often comes around I cannot replace it - I would find it insulting and frankly I am grateful for the gift nonetheless. Can I somehow fix the noise? (by internal modding) I am willing to put the time into it... Thanks
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i need some details an advice for these 2 used nuc's for both the lenovo ThinkCentre M93p Business Class Desktop https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PV4F3Q9/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza & Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny Desktop https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084X4JVNL/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza can the cpu cooler for either be replaced with a noctua low profile , an whats the max amount an speed of ram that can be added ?
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can i put 32gb of ram into this an what max speed , an whats the max nvme size that can be added ? Dell 99K5T OptiPlex 3050 Small Form Factor Desktop Computer, Intel Core i5-7500, 8GB DDR4, 256GB Solid State Drive, Windows 10 Pro (Renewed) https://www.amazon.com/Dell-OptiPlex-Computer-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B07CWXGWT7/?_encoding=UTF8#customerReviews an could i run a android os on this to run netflix an some other apps an if so which one ?
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will this https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/accessories/universal-vertical-gpu-holder-kit-v2-pcie-40/#specifications work as alternative vertical gpu mount for the h5 flow case as theirs cost more an is rarely in stock
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Okay, so I have genuinely done a tonne of looking into this and there is no straightforward and direct guide on how to do this or if it is possible anywhere that I can find. I want to convert a stock Dualshock 4 controller from having a plug and play Micro USB port to a hardwired cable terminating in USB Type A. I don't want to change anything else, just convert to a hardwired USB cable. Reason being the PS4 controller has always been my favourite fighting game controller for PC but no matter how many I have gone through I always end up with the same issue of the Micro USB port being really sensitive to motion and disconnecting intermitently when the controller is even slightly jiggled in my hand. Bluetooth connection is not a feasible solution due to the amount of input delay it generates. Is anyone able to explain to me or at least point me at a guide that will show me how to terminate a USB cable for power and data onto the board? (I'm pretty competent with soldering) Is this even something that anyone has done before me? Thanks in advance
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I'm currently developing an action RPG game using Unreal Engine 4, and I've been thinking of adding mod support for the game. And for better planning on my side, I want to know what's your thoughts in regards to mod support in PC games. For the sake of the poll, fill it as if you're modding a single-player open world video game. Thanks!
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I have never cable modded before. I was wondering if someone could please explain the basics of cable modding. What should I look out for? Any brands to consider? I notice some cable mods say they’re compatible for certain types of PSUs. Does that really matter? I thought they were all generic. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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Hello people c: , So I recently bought a pre-built office pc with a Core i5 2400 8gb of ddr3 ram windows 10 pro and a 400 HDD, this PC has a Micro Star ms 7707 motherboard and had a GT 210 installed in it which I swapped out for a AMD Radeon HD 6950 but the card only shows it booting and loading windows and then it just gives weird output flashing screen and so on , this happened/started while installing the drivers for the card and went on after that, so unistalling them should fix it right ? Wrong I tried that and I still got this weird screen flashing . If I put the gt 210 back in it it just works fine . At this point am a bit lost and not exactly sure what to do, so help would be greatly appreciated ! c: I am building this pc for my little sister because she wants to play roblox and minecraft. Following is a Video of the screen flashing ! Weirdpc.mp4