Post your Good Ghetto mods

[elfensky]

using electrical tape instead of solder to connect wires together.

[potatoproduction]

What were u using electrical tape for

[cragger89]

My PSU was too small for my GPU upgrade, so I ran another small one just to power the GPU with the black/green power trigger pins shorted.

 

It actually was executed in a safe and purposeful way, but running to PSUs is silly.

[Calavera]

PC wasn't ground, so I grabbed a copper wire and tied it to the fan-grill and then connected it to the radiator under my window.

Worked tho.

[CydiaDash]

eh hem... it's spelt ghetto

[SirBobson]

My gpu didn't line up properly with the pcie slot screw things (idk what they are called) so i ziptied it in...

[Gale]

Pretty much all my cable management.

[Gikero]

Took the front panel USB ports off a OEM machine and connected them to my PC via USB header. Let the USB ports hang out of the 3.5'' bay slot. Removed about a week later, it was just too ugly and I was worried about accidentally damaging the header.

[mikat]

Let's make a thread about the getoist (is that even a word) things you have done tech related anything with tech being part of it works.

My getoist thing is once I wanted to buy a Bose speaker (for a gift) that cost 320$ and obviously I did not want to pay for the full price. So I asked if there was any discounts or if I could match the price , and there was nothing. Until one nice employee showed me that he could buy it for 180$ because he was a employee, and so I asked if I could buy it from him (outside the store) for 200$ and he said yes. So at 10:30pm I meet him in a gas station (just like a drug deal) and I gave him the cash and he gave me the speakers then we walked opposite ways to our cars and drove away

i have ikea led lighting in my pc, i pulled out a pci cover and disassembled the led hub to fit through the pci hole that i created, and now i have an extra powerplug coming out of my pc

note: the remote is hanging out of my 5,25" bay (just pulled the cover out)

[Dragacane]

There was a loose PSU in my parents computer so it made an large amount of sound so instead of getting new or good screws I tape and stuck it good. It somewhat worked until I got screws.

[techswede]

I'll just leave this here

[elfensky]

What were u using electrical tape for

 

Instead of soldering the two end pieces of the wires together, I just twisted them together, and put electrical tape over it.

[mrjordann]

This might not be the most ghetto, but my 2.1 speaker set broke almost right after I got it (factory defects), so whenever my friends come over; I plug in my 2nd headset into my microphone jack and used RealTek to basically use the microphone jack as a headphone jack. It works.

[GlassBomb]

I mounted a power supply in my brother's old computer using shoe string.

[ExcitezR]

My monitor arm was to heave so it started to bend the desk so i put a cup mat under it lol

 

[Kevin_Walter]

I took the hard drive out of my laptop and mounted it to the 3.5" cage in my Source 210 with zip ties because it doesn't have proper 2.5" mounts.

[creatureofthecave]

i messed up the audio  ports on my old pc and had alot of my usb used so a usb audio plug adapter had clearence issues so i took the plastic off so it would fit

[Kyuubixchidori]

I bought a Custom G5 mac pro computer, a PC built in a G5 case. a lot of hard work and such went into making it. Im using tape to hold the hard drive and SSD in place. 

[SkywardKkalox]

using electrical tape instead of solder to connect wires together.

It works. But solder + electrical tape is the best.

[michaelk12]

I had a ancient IDE/PATA drive I needed to pull stuff off. I got a USB adapter for it, so I let the drive hang loosely in my case, connected it to my PSU's molex, and ran the USB cable out of the watercooling gromet on the back of the case and into the rear I/O. Not very ghetto, but the closest thing.

I also pulled out some old LEGOs and made a stand to hold my tablet over my head in bed so I could watch YouTube without even looking up in bed.

[potatoproduction]

Kool idea

[potatoproduction]

I'm getting a lot of good ideas here

[lazypc]

I've got a few... so I'll use a couple replies, but I have pictures for them all so that should make up for it.

 

The store I work in has a horrible door, the wind always blows it open when it gets windy, setting off the door chime, distracting me from my work....

 

Solution, old PC tower and some bubble wrap, best use I have found for a Pentium 4 machine since 2012

 

[lazypc]

I was concerned about printing a banner to be used as a store menu, just wasn't something I had never done... So I decided to print it at 100% on regular letter size paper and tape it together to check readability and such.

Gave it to the client as a proof, they hung it up in their restaurant, it's been there ever since, they never had the banner produced. I saw it again yesterday and the paper has since yellowed except where the tape is.

[Flashie]

Was fixing a laptop when the plastic screw mount that the screen is kept in place by, broke into pieces and was forced to super glue it back together. I stuck the screw into the still wet screw mount and the screw didn't only re-break the plastic mount, but got glued to a nut and the screen. I used tweezers, spanners, heatgun and evens a electric drill to get the screw off and Mc-Gyver me up a different screw mounting c: In the end, it looked like new... On the outside.