Post your Good Ghetto mods

[thoristhebest]

i 'converted' the weird form factor dell optiplex motherboards into a normal mATX case. i had to angle grid the rear slots to fit the upside down graphics card and I.O ports. along with this i had to angle grind some of the hard drive cage away and make new stand off out of metal. when i bolted the board down i placed a thin piece of card inbetween to stop it shorting out onto the sheet metal i replaced the motherboard tray with. i took the power connectors and stuff like that off the dell optiplex case as it doesnt have the normal front panel headers. i soldered a switch in place of the power button. also i had to cable tie the heatsink and heatsink fan down to the board. as it used mobo standoffs to secure. once i booted it up i kept getting a message about a rear fan being missing. (i couldent change it in the bios setting) so by this point i just couldent be assed and ended up soldering the contacts together to short the fan header out. its served me well for about 4-5months. lets just say it was the most powerful dell optiplex ive been on before. then i couldent boot it up. no bios menu. and it turned out the solder id put on the fan header had melted damaging the mobo and frying the bios chip. i knew this would happen anyway but by this time i had just finished building my new pc. so guess it was perfect timing. i still have reminence of the ddr2 ram and core 2 duo cpu that powered the BEAST but unfortunatly no photos :'(

[shadowblitz3]

i put backlight in my game boy color

[burningfyra]

After reading some of the other comments this is not that bad its more getto than dodgie 

I duck taped a Mic that had a broken headband to a pair of 3d glasses

[Calavera]

My room didn't have a grounded electricity socket (it's being overhauled right now) so I grabbed a copper cable from the barn, twisted it around the fan grill on the back of my PC, then scraped off some paint off the radiator, and put a clamp around it and connected the wire to it.

 

It worked, the electricity ran through the radiator now instead of through my feet when I rested them on my case.

[MrCthuntoo]

I started ripping out hard drives from my webserver while it was powered on to see if they could handle it.

 

Success, everything was still working. Even the VMs that were running on the disks that I ripped out powered back up fine.

[Lord Pantaloons]

I used double sided foam tape to hold two PSU's in a case.

[elecxonica]

I was running a laptop drive just dangling in my case for a while when I had issues with my primary drive.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

I can't be the only one here that used a bit of bubble gum because he ran out of thermal paste, right ?

[LegolaDex]

I used Dry ice to create a moving cloud to test where the air would exhaust in my system rig when I had all of my fans set to intake.

[Calavera]

I can't be the only one here that used a bit of bubble gum because he ran out of thermal paste, right ?

I do believe you are the only one  :blink:

[Tickletehpickle]

I made this.

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Who needs a 100$ case, if you can DIY your own case

[RainColt]

Who needs a 100$ case, if you can DIY your own case

Exactly, what do those case making factories know about cases?

Except for maybe how big a power supply really is, I measured the base and completely forgot that they have protruding cords that add an extra 3 inches.

Also kind of another dodgy build.

[Redliub]

Once I circumvented a circuit breaker with a piece of magnet wire and then shorted an outlet on the circuit it was protecting with a coat hanger until the wire glowed.

 

It was pretty hardcore.

[simson0606]

I can't be the only one here that used a bit of bubble gum because he ran out of thermal paste, right ?

i used toothpaste once, it smelled minty and lasted for a few days

[Tickletehpickle]

i used toothpaste once, it smelled minty and lasted for a few days

That's pretty Handy

[mustafaali61]

Exactly, what do those case making factories know about cases?

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Except for maybe how big a power supply really is, I measured the base and completely forgot that they have protruding cords that add an extra 3 inches.

Also kind of another dodgy build.

there is no cpu in the cpu slot

[ofr057]

bypassing the house safety fuse and butchering the 15amp plug on my mig welder, had to turn everything off to run it ..... god it drank the juice but it was great for working on roll bars

[Jack.EXE]

Scotch taped an SSD to the side panel in a server...

 

Hung an HDD by it's sata connector & a rubber band in a drive bay (I was out of 2.5 to 3.5 adapters)

 

used scrap wire to tie my custom cooler to the GPU.

 

I'm a do as I say, not as I do person...

[Briggsy]

Years ago the fan died in a Cooler Master PSU. I removed it by force and wedged a case fan inside. used PSU for another 6 months before replacing it.

[FourBit]

after building a new pc, forgetting to flip the power sqitch on the back of the power supply.... oops.

[AlexStriz]

Booting a brand new laptop with ram and hard drive from an old shorted out laptop. 

[Pugs501]

Stuck some tape on the bottom of Mouses.

[Tie Lightning]

i wanted to try and "blow up" an older tx 750 corsair powersupply by feeding its own power back into it, it survived longer then i expected

How did you do that?

[terrytek]

Letting my brother use my computer. Damn, he gets in a lot of trouble with my computer.

[CtW]

Connect one billion  year old surge protector to another billion year old surge protector and run my pc off of it.