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From the album: My Build, the beginnings
This is my storage setup. Very ghetto. Eventually, I will be seating it (all drives) with 3M double sided sticky tape somewhere. Preferably to the floor of the case. Still not sure. Maybe on the Motherboard Tray.© TPaliciusV
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So I was browsing the forums and was inspired to try something. I have a couple sheets of 3mm cork for putting under floorboards. I wanted to see how well it would work as a sound dampening material. It doesn't make a noticeable difference but I can only judge by ear and didn't cover much of a panel, out of fear of it interfering with my air cooler. The only real issue is that the cork is crumbly but its just wood so it should be fine. I didn't bother with the other side as the mobo back plate and has enough clearance issues enough that I can't rout cables back there much less add a piece of cork. So it probably wouldn't have made a difference even with professional foam. tldr. It doesn't make a noticeable difference but I only covered a small portion of one side panel, not bad for a 5 min mod. The materials, I ended up also using scissors to cut the cork but the exacto knife was still nice for marking out my lines. I after cutting it to size a glued it in with a hot glue gun. The hot glue should detach nicely should I ever want to remove it. The panel back in my case, hardly even noticeable. particularly once it goes back into its cabinet.
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Made this external radiator as a common radiator for the 3 rigs in my office, I plan to make a larger one that is fitted to my window to vent the heat out (I live in South Australia, we just had 2 weeks of 40C Celsius heat) As an obsessive tinkerer I'm heavily experimenting with water cooling at the moment, as cheap as possible. This was made from recycled parts (Besides clamps) It is mounted in a cantilever style so the arm does not block airflow from the off-centered fan. The way the copper piping is designed allows you to section off the radiator which I will be doing further down the track to isolate the loops and assist with pressure. At the moment its a two in two out config, it has dropped my reservoir temps across the machines between 20-30 Celsius, with fan running at just 5v, the temps drop a further 5 -10 Celsius at the full 12v. Just looking for some ideas, feedback, or if anyone has any experience or experimented with anything like this? Parts: Radiator from busted A/C unit. Dell Monitor Stand Corsair Fan from old Case Had some black engine spray paint so gave it a coat, after some research I had read black helps with radiator thermal conductivity. Few LEDS cause everything in here has LEDS cause i'm a fiend. Hose clamps ($1.50 each, pretty pricey!)
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Hi guys I'm looking forward to adding another display to my setup. I curently have LG DM2752 and Dell U2311H. I would like to add another U2311H and make an eyefinity group. The problem is that I cant get object to scale on all three displays cause tho they have same res thay have different sizes. I have done some testing and find out that Dell set to non native res of 1600 X 900is almost perfectly up to scale with the LG one. The problem is wether I will be able to correctly make a mixed resolution eyefinity group with two 1600x900 and one 1920 x 1080 (adding up to a total resolution of 5120 x 1080) without resolution on Dell monitors going back to native resolution on eyefinity group setup ? Ps. I wonder wether you notice any tearing on desktop while in eyefinity mode cause I have. Also my main monitor sometimes gets 1080i insted of 1080p siglan. Weird. Ps 2. I have some experience with ghetto setup. I for example have 4.1 surround sound setup made of 2.1 and a 2.0 speaker set and with my PC it works like a charm for fraction of a cost of decent 5.1 set. Both sets are self powered if you wonder.
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I own a h100i v2 water cooler and i would like to connect it to a alpha cool gpu water block So i was thinking about cutting one of the aio tubes in hald and connecting both ends to a quick disconnect fitting. Then connect the other ends of the fittings to pvc tubes and connect that to the gpu. As shown below in the picture
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Hi guys im new here been a fan of LTT for a while firstly id feel i should let you know my situation and my current ghetto rig right so im a father of 2 before the kids my head was well in the computer game back when lga775 and pheonoms where cool so my current rig has been ghettoed from a dell optiplex 745 specs are as follows CPU: Intel Core2 Quad GPU: Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boost SSD: SanDisk Extreme 120GB HDD: WD Blue 1TB (2012) RAM: Unknown 7GB MBD: Dell OptiPlex 745 anyway im needing help with a new build and the new intel stuff confuses me i am on quite a budget (somewhere around £100) i initally thought a i5 2500k would be my best bet until i hit ebay shopping and discovered lga 1151 boards gor around £50 new example: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Biostar-H110MD-Pro-D4-Micro-ATX-Motherboard-Intel-Socket-LGA-1151-DDR4-DVI-/371859738743?hash=item5694915077:g:CoUAAOSwo4pYmHu4 my main purpose is going to be gaming and multimedia (youtube hd films etc) but i also want some future proofing so is a i5 2500k, ddr3 build better then a g4500 (tempary until ive saved up for a i7 ) ddr4 build much much better or or the cheap boards pants for the lga 1151 hope this makes some sense to you all
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I recently upgraded from the EVGA GTX 960 single fan, to the Zotac Mini GTX 1060 6GB, and I was annoyed by the OC ceiling their cheap cooler put in place. I liked the zero fan speed functionality of the 960, but I more preferred the heat pipe cooling, Is there a way to at least keep the heat pipe cooling through a transfer to the 1060, and more preferably, also the 0 fan speed? Would this procedure be "safe"?
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Let me start by saying I'm new to the forums, But I'm a long time viewer of LTT and I've been an enthusiast longer than that! I'm gonna be here on the regular now because I've lost interest in the "Crit TV" guys. Anyway that's for another time... lets get to it... Recently I came under financial stress and ended up selling my beloved LAN box to make ends meet. But I have an addiction, I love Video games. And as any stoner that has cabbage and no smoking method knows, This forced me to get creative. So I present to you, My Gatorade bottle bong of a computer. Meet, The Can Crusher! This monstrosity is running: Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33Ghz Radeon HD4850 2Gb of ddr2 (Got 2 more GB on the way) Two PSUs, (keep reading for why I did that) 250GB 7200rpm Seagate drive (I have another drive, but I cant find what I did with my sata cables, got one on the way) So yes its complete garbage, Yes it runs Crysis (although completely unplayable so it probably doesn't count), But it cost me next to nothing and I can play the games I want too. At this point you probably want to know about the power supply situation. The OEM Power supply did not have a 6 pin PCIe plug, I have a few other power supplys that all do have 6pins but they are all dead. However I got one to at least power on, There was something wrong with the 24 pin that kept the computer form even power cycling. So I hooked up the stock PSU and jumpered the Dead one to get it to turn on then just plugged the 6pin into the GPU. When I pulled this computer out of my addic it also had no heatsync. My friend had a dead PC that I was able to steal the heatsync from. Its held to the CPU by an entire tube of some cheap thermal paste that I never had any intention on using, ever... The PWM plugs on the OEM motherboard were proprietary, so I said screw it at chopped the plug off and hooked the fan up straight to a 12v line. Its loud as hell but it works great! Ive got a slight over clock on my GPU bringing it to 700Mhz from 625Mhz, Regardless the CPU is bottle necking the piss out of the GPU so the overclock is rather pointless. Total investment into this computer was about 20$. Yeah its crap, but its the only crap I got, I just started putting money away for an I5 6500k and a 1060 I plan on putting in a Coolermaster Elite 130. But until that day, This is what I'm running. If you wanna talk crap, 1v1 me in rocket league. That 1080 and 144hz 4k monitor wont save you from the Can Crusher! Anyway that's my Ghetto PC. I'm super excited to meet and get involved in the LTT community. And I would absolutely love to see other PCs that have been Obama rigged. I don't think anyone could be as janky as me.... prove me wrong...
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So I have decided to mount a traditional tower heatsink to my rx 480 with zipties and it all seemed okay at first. The idle temps are around 30C but this is where I'm kinda stumped. When I started DOOM to test the load temps, it started out okay at 62C and as the temps started to rise the core clock was throttling to as low as 500mhz. The game fps would dip up and down from high to low very rapidly. I have a hunch that wattman is confused about the stock fan being unplugged, so it is throttling the card. (P.S I updated the drivers)
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A couple of months ago I put together a test bench that I could use for testing old hardware from my eBay business. It consisted of a Pentium 4@2.66Ghz, 2GB of DDR RAM and an Nvida FX 5200 graphics card. It was pretty crap, but all the parts came in a joblot so I just had to slot everything in and I was good to go. Here's a picture of it if you're interested (WinXP ftw): However last month I decided to give it an upgrade, so I bought a cheap 775 motherboard off eBay that came with a dual core CPU (It was nothing special, just a cheap foxconn board and a pentium dual core). When I bought that motherboard I remembered watching a video about a 771 to 775 mod that allowed you to use some of the older Xeon CPUs in consumer 775 motherboards, and I had the intention of replacing the pentium with a quad core Xeon later down the line. In the end though I ended up buying the Xeon (an X5450) and the converter sticker on the same day. When all the parts arrived it didn't take long to put it all together. The most nerve-racking part was cutting the tabs on the CPU socket so that the Xeon would fit. It took me a couple of tries but eventually I cut enough off (A quick tip if you plan on doing this mod is to buy a cheap 775 CPU (I just used the pentium dual core) to use as a guide, so if you do screw up all you risk losing it a cheap CPU). After putting the converter sticker on the CPU (The mod requires a sticker to short some pins on the CPU for it to work), I slotted it in the motherboard, put on the cooler and... it didn't boot. I proceeded to waste several hours wondering why (I even brought in a projector from the other room and had that set up as it was the only other portable display I had that had VGA), but eventually I found out that it was my own stupidity. I had put the sticker on upside down - *facepalm*. So after putting on a new sticker the right way round (Thank god I bought two), the system booted up! (Yay). Currently It's still just sitting on a motherboard box, but I plan to get/make a test-bench case at some point in the future. Here's the full spec list if you're interested: CPU: Intel Xeon X5450 GPU: Whatever's lying around, currently an Nvidia 6200LE RAM: 1.5GB of DDR2 (I desperately need to buy more RAM) Motherboard: Foxconn G31MXP 775 Motherboard PSU: Generic Dell 250W Power Supply HDD: 80GB IDE Maxtor Hard drive (I'm gonna get an SSD at some point, this was just the only drive I had at the time) OS: Windows 7 Other: There's a sound blaster card in there at the moment, but I was just testing that out. And here's some pictures: So yeah, that's my testbench. It's pretty bad, and the cabling is a mess (Not much I can really do about that atm, and the PSU has really short cables so it's hard to manage them at all), but it does what I need it to do. The main things I want to do to it next are: Buy an SSD Get more RAM Change the GPU Buy a new power supply Change the motherboard Anyway, if you read this far, then thanks for taking a look! I'd love hear your feedback and also to see your test-benches (I'm sure they're better than mine)
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This topic errs on the side of hypothetical rather than practical. I've seen countless reviews of Noctua's NH-D15 coolers pitted against other enthusiast air coolers and AIO's and (aside from looks) it seems to beat out every single competitor in both cooling and silence, even narrowly beating be quiet!'s competing cooler in both categories as well. So I was wondering about Graphics cooling. If spacing wasn't a factor and the weight was supported, how would you think strapping a NH-D15 to a 1080ti would go, both cooling and noise wise? Bonus points if you could figure out how to cool the VRM!
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the title says it all! ive been having this idea recently to make some sort of ricer laptop. ie; a crappy general name brand early 2000nds laptop, looks awful on the outside, but has the specs of a gaming beast, most likely by way of morphing either a micro atx setup or from a doner gaming laptop, with the screen replaced with a repair one off of either ebay or amazon. ive found a ton of terrible 50-200$ 15" laptops to use as a base, and quite a few cheap gaming laptops and micro atx/ mini nvidia gpus, and was wondering if something like this would be feasible at all whatsoever! possible specs may include; i7 (TBD) 24-32 gigs ram 120 gig ssd & 1tb hard drive or external storage nvidia gtx 1050-1080 (all work) (motherboard TBD) windows 10 OS anything else i am currently forgetting thoughts? -
So I have ghetto AIO diy custom loop, put together mostly from "dumpster" items and this time to sacrifice a 700€ graphics card. From previous system: Old GPU: Inno3D GTX 770 4GB (died when leak shorted it), Gig(g)abyte GTX 770 2GB (still alive) Questionable ghetto fixes: Superglued asetek fitting, 90 degree adapters in reservoir need teflon tape, a ton of it (wrong orientation), 90 degree plastic barb fittings melted and tightened over radiator metal barbs. Leak danger: In god we trust Pictures to follow soon...
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Right, first time poster, broke and in a fix. So I've run into some trouble, I use my laptop to run and store everything I do, everything. I help out at my school with a lot of filming and editing of some very basic stuff, I like to keep the final copies just in case I want to use them later. I only do basic editing so keeping unedited footage isn't necessary. To problem is I've now filled up my 512GB nvme ssd, and my old 2 1/2" 300GB hdd. I found a rather nice 1TB 3 1/2" hdd at home but I have no way of interfacing with it. Basically I'm looking for some way to create a USB to Sata adaptor. I have no money, Nada, niks, nothing, but I do have a soldering iron, a month long holiday and a can do attitude, does anyone have some guides/ advice/ reasons why this is illegal and or impossible. Can do attitude
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Hey guys. I have a Corsair RM750i. Since i've upgraded my gtx 970 to an 1080ti, my PSU has been overheating. The known problem is : some Rm750i's have the fan controller kind of broken: it is supposed to start spinning at a certain temperature threshold, but it's not, resulting in an overheated psu and a restart. The problem is i don't have enough money to buy a PSU now, so i gotta try something, and i need you guys to tell me if it will work: Now, the ghetto solution: what if i "ghetto" mount a 140mm case fan on top of the PSU's fan, on the outside of the PSU? will it blow air inside and kind of function as the default fan? I would really appreciate some answers on this:D thanks!
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Alright. So this is a super janky plan, but I have nothing to do with my time, so i may as well. So the idea is to connect a external gpu, to a laptop with moderate specs to achieve a janky, really uncomfortable laptop that i can bring places more easily than a desktop, keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The plan is to toss a gpu, power for the gpu and whatnot inside a case, this case, or one along the lines of this >> https://pcpartpicker.com/product/GCfp99/silverstone-case-rvz01b Then the plan is to mount the laptop on top of this case after i have installed the external GPU through the NGFF or PCI-E, so we just have a laptop with a large body underneath. now comes the part that im not sure about. I would like to rewire the HDMI out of the computer to an HDMI IN. The piece that allows me to connect a gpu to a laptop, is meant to project onto a second screen, but i want to gpu to project back onto the laptops screen. My goal is to do something similar to which is done on DIYperks video, but while keeping the monitor contained inside the laptop so i can directly connect the gpu to the laptop screen. I dont know the best way to achieve this, or if it would even be practical, which is why im asking the forums. Perhaps one of you guys have done something similar, or would know the best way to convert a laptops hdmi out port to an hdmi in
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Greetings! After a sort of long hiatus, I came back here to ask you guys if it is safe to use an unused paintbrush to brush-off the dust inside my PC. I'm just worried because I'm not sure if it would build up static electricity and cause damage on to my PC. I just need an answer whether if it's safe or not to use a paintbrush to dust my computer( I don't have any other sort of solution to the problem ) Any kind of help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Hello all! I recently installed a corsair h75 AIO water cooler and the two fans it came with. Only one issue, my Asus motherboard BIOS wants to protect me from myself (a bit late for that) and limits the duty cycle to 40% minimum for all the chassis fan headers. I think my CPU fan header might have a lower manual duty cycle of around 20% but I'd rather not screw with that because i'd prefer to keep my CPU fan to auto adjusts speed based on core temps. Anyway, preface out of the way, the thing I wanted to ask you lovely ladies and gentlemen of the LTT forum is: What can I do to limit the rpm of my fans... Silly question I know, but besides forking out ~$50 for a PWM fan controller, maybe there are some other things that could be done? I'm not adverse to installing some ghetto resistor in line to the fans considering I have already voided the warranty on just about everything in my case (the aforementioned h75 was for my GPU after all...). But I'm pretty sure the old "voltage divider" resistor trick doesn't work with PWM fans anyways... So, got any ideas? I'd rather not spend money tbh as it's a bit hard to come by right now. And yes, before anyone comments that this thread has already been made a million times, I'm doing it because I know how much you all LOVE answering questions that have already been asked before
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So I bought a Dell Optiplex 7010 and I thought I would be able to take the PC case to a hardware store and have the HDD cage removed because it blocks the GPU but apparently it's a big job. So I'm planning on getting a new case and moving all parts into it. The pictures below show the setup at the moment and everything is working fine, but how long would this setup be okay for? Would it be alright for another week until a new case arrives? Thanks in advance.
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Hello, I am doing a bit "how-you-doing" ghetto watercooling solution but I cannot come to agreement with my hose plans... 3x 120mm aluminium barbed radiators (old AIO units) 2x asetek pump & block units 1x 5.25" res.bay 2.85 metres of Tygon 9.6mm/6.4mm soft tubing and clamps for them. (Odd 2.85m because already destroyed the 15cm of tube with over tightened clamp). For my current progress you can check this thread: So my newest plan is this: And my original was this: 1 So any ideas for better arrangement? -
Greetings LTT forum from Denmark My name is Karl, and I am a dirt poor gaming and tech enthusiast, and I am building a franken-PC. The premise og the build is "everything must be free, preferably from the dumpster", and so I have been dumpster diving, at school and at home (with permission, otherwise its illegal here). This has resulted in a selection of mismatched parts in all kinds of quality, and a lot of issues along the way. After years of using my almost-finished PC (most of the time, outside of a case), I finally have all the parts I need to build it, BUT my PSU is not powerful enough. So I am going full Austin Evans on this, and using 2 PSU's, and here, my question to you arises. How should I configure the PSUs, in terms of which powers what? 1PSU for GPUs and 1 for the rest ? And I have some molex-->6-pin converters which I am planning to use, but I am fresh out of molexes, also need one for the pump, so thinking of splicing some myself, and using other outputs from PSU1 (see below). i know I should be able to use sata power, but should I rather use some outputs from the 24-pin? which I will not need as I am using PSU2 for the motherboard and CPU (logistics). Which wires to grap? Case: No clue, some office dell, with proprietary layout, not even screw holes fitted for standard motherboards. PSU1:HP-D2701C0 max power 270W PSU2:DELL L305P-00 max power 305W HDD (mass storage): Samsung HD204UI 2TB SSD (boot and fav games): Samsung 128GB slate SSD MMDOE28G5MPP 0VAD1 2.5'' CPU: intel i7 2600s GPU1: https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/EN8800GTGHTDP512M/specifications/ GPU2: https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/EN8800GTSHTDP512M/specifications/ water cooler: XSpc delta (? no clue, says on the bloc, think this was part of a bloc, rad, pump/res package) (Also, attached the water block, Linus-Style, thanks for inspiration!) Would appreciate any and all inputs, will do some painting, and will add acrylic slabs on the front, back and top, which I am thinking of sanding, and adding white LEDs behind, have done same under motherboard and under SSD. Please note that I have not had access to any propper tools (besides drill, pits, and a big-ass angle grinder, så the edges are kind of rough.. part of the hobo look I am going for. Really enjoying collecting bits and pieces (also in general), and enjoying the build, so if it crashes and burns so be it =), so I am willing to experiment with it. Picture related: build in progress, although quite a bit of ways off from finished =). Please let me know if any questions should arise =) kind regards, and looking forward to hearing from you. -Karl
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Hey, I am looking for a way to build laptops and I have found the pretty awesome laptop manufacturer, called Clevo. Clevo allows me to order the parts and build it myself, and thereby everything is modifiable, or rather almost everything... I will off course not be able to switch processor or motherboard, which would be fine if it wasn't because I wanted a thunderbolt port. This is where the NUC comes in, it haves thunderbolt, is cheap and has pretty cool processor. I know it is going to be a bit impractical, but I would really like to build a kind of prototype of my dream laptop. So please, if you just want to tell me, that it is going to be more expensive than buying from a brand, then please just don't comment haha
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H1BE4VQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=CN7RLFXPYGZ4&coliid=I3UGIPMXNSNGAJ As the title says, is the pump and res good or should I shell out a lot of money for a name brand pump and res?
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planning on doing something a tad jank, so wanted to get some opinions from those with more knowledge than me. I have a vega 64 I want to use in a secondary system but I only have a 500w psu with a single 8 pin. they recommend a 750w psu for the vega64, but those psus are pretty pricey. so instead, I was thinking of buying a second hand phanteks power combo device and a second 500w psu. this would cost me about 35%less in total, and give me more upgrade options in future. this would provide more than enough power in total, but it would mean Im powering the psu with one 8pin from each psu. would this cause me any issues? I would really appreciate any advice on this before I blow up one of my most expensive parts.
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So, I'm new here and I had the idea of taking an Antec Kuhler 1250 which has the pumps in the radiator assembly then cutting the tubes at the CPU block and plugging them into an EKWB 2080 waterblock. Anyone see any issues?
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