Post your Good Ghetto mods

[FuzzyYellow]

Yes. Along with the Intel iGPU. Top one is my crappy 7950 3GB, bottom one is a GTX 480 Engineering Sample (1.5GB, of course).

wait, why is your 7950 crappy? I would kill for a gpu half as powerful as that.

[anders_b]

my case dident come with stand off screws (but came with stand offs) so i use side panel screws to hold the motherbord in

[FuzzyYellow]

Well... maybe it's bc I made them from the stock passive heatsink of the GPU

This is the GPU untouched:

what GPU is that? it kinda looks like my old radeon 9200.

[flibberdipper]

wait, why is your 7950 crappy? I would kill for a gpu half as powerful as that.

Runs stupid hot and loud. And the stock 900MHz clock speed is just complete shit.

 

That RAM stick looks lonely...

It was the cheapest and the nicest. And since I want to get 16GB later on, it made sense to go with it. But, I have a lot of other things I need to get first. http://bit.ly/AthenaUpgrades

[jem.graham]

My new psu didn't have a 6 pin pci plug, I I cut one off my old psu and soldered it to a molex adapter, I'm surprised it works.

[Tedster]

Sidepanel fans died so I took it off for better cooling:

[MoDtEc]

Thats nothing secial my PC sits here without side ant top panels fuck daaa DUST!

 

you are't having any driver issues? I thought running two different brands the drivers would interfear with each other

Having both drivers installed isnt a problem at all in most cases

 

Nope. All three of them behave perfectly fine.

You cant run like games ion both cards simulatniously though, can you? :huh:

[flibberdipper]

Thats nothing secial my PC sits here without side ant top panels fuck daaa DUST!

 

Having both drivers installed isnt a problem at all in most cases

 

You cant run like games ion both cards simulatniously though, can you? :huh:

I haven't tried it.

[Vatican]

My OCD is boiling looking through this thread. I don't leave a speckle of dust near my computer station ever. Cables gotta look great front and back, dont care if its even hidden.

[JarJarBanksy]

Thats nothing secial my PC sits here without side ant top panels fuck daaa DUST!

 

Having both drivers installed isnt a problem at all in most cases

 

You cant run like games ion both cards simulatniously though, can you? :huh:

I don't believe it is possible to use both cards in gaming simultaneously. They have to be able to work together, which is why we have things like SLI and Crossfire. They coordinate that among other things.

 

I don't know if you can use them independently at the same time, like using the NVidia card for cuda while rendering in opencl or opengl on the 7950. I always thought that nvidia disabled their cards if the drivers detected an amd card in the system.

[flibberdipper]

My OCD is boiling looking through this thread. I don't leave a speckle of dust near my computer station ever. Cables gotta look great front and back, dont care if its even hidden.

My mini-OCD drives me nuts with the cables around my desk. And as for dust, I don't care really.

 

I don't believe it is possible to use both cards in gaming simultaneously. They have to be able to work together, which is why we have things like SLI and Crossfire. They coordinate that among other things.

 

I don't know if you can use them independently at the same time, like using the NVidia card for cuda while rendering in opencl or opengl on the 7950. I always thought that nvidia disabled their cards if the drivers detected an amd card in the system.

Nvidia cards only get disabled with an AMD card for PhysX.

[2mbur2n]

Is that some shitty asus board ripped from an hp/compaq by any chance?

maybe

[SImoHayha]

using the mobo box as a keyboard............

 

 

 

[Sousuke]

I am the administrator for 10 computers in a charity's building and due to a very limited IT Budget I've had to ghetto a few things.

 

One of the most ghetto things were that a PC Wouldn't boot, no idea why it was locked away in the store room, turned out the plank who installed the HDD (A used one at that) had snapped the plastic bit off the SATA Connector on the HDD Itself so what did I do?

 

I cut a SATA Cable and soldered the cable straight onto the HDD Works like a champ, not one issue since its installation over 4 months ago.

[Guest DollarPC]

You see my camara boke so no pics but mah ghetto setup has a 450mm attached to it

[asim1999]

Mine is by far the most ghetto:

[Balverine]

Had to use a zip-tie on the CPU power cable so it doesn't touch the RAM. With the 140mm fan blocking the passthrough above the motherboard I can't route it behind the motherboard tray.

 

[Mattr567]

 

 

In the winter I put my laptop outside my window because it overheats so much that it turns off, then I run a hdmi cable to my tv and it will work flawlessly.

plus I run a wireless keyboard and mouse to play.

 

I know your feeling...

My setup before I built my PC consisted of one of the worst laptops ive ever seen/used.

 

HP DV6-6C35DX (know that by heart after searching enough forums of pissed of owners) overheated A LOT

Damn that fan, one hell of a screechier. 65C idle Yay!

That's one way to end a windows installation.

 

Since I have manged to install a new copy of Windows 7.

Whenever I boot it up I am hit with a critical battery error telling me the capacity of the battery is 15% of what it should be, and a cooling fan error. Great!

 

Also that battery heats up REALLY fast. Its probably not safe and will eventually explode into a ball of fire.

And that's why I don't use it anymore!!!

 

EDIT: Examples: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Other-Notebook-PC-Questions/Pavilion-DV6-overheats-chews-battery-and-now-will-not-power/td-p/551271/page/2

And my favorite: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/HP-DV6-Laptop-Battery-Caught-Fire-Not-under-recall-either/td-p/1306829

 

"I had to throw my laptop in the snow"

 

HP get your shit in one pile!

[Odysseyy]

Working on it boys, Working on it

[permanahadi]

3 months back

 

Dat Cables ...

[DIV1D3]

Working on it boys, Working on it

Why would you connect monitor to a console though?

 

I'll come back later today (12:12 AM atm) with my "Gaming Optimised PC Case". It's pretty shocking lol. 

[KevinXuzio]

It depends on what you call "ghetto"...

 

 

Could be better, but it does the job.

 

PC:

- Intel Core i7 3770K - Not Overclocked - 3.5Ghz  (Stock Cooler)

- 32GB DDR3 RAM

- 3TB HDD

- ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GTX650

- MSi Z77A (Something or other)

 

Other Gear:

- CoolerMaster CMSTORM QuickFire TK - Cherry MX Blue Mechanical Keyboard

- Tesoro Shrike BLACK EDITION

- LG 24MP55 24" IPS LED Monitor

- LG 24EN43 24" LED Monitor

[Monkey Dust]

One of the feet broke off my keyboard, so I now keep that corner propped up with an empty Ibuprofen box.

[Guest Generallee]

I fitted a H110 to the kraken g10 of my 290, the antec performance P182 case wasn't designed to even hold a radiator so i had to completely remove the optical drives bay, the radiator sits vertically with tape on both sides 

 

also, ssd is homeless

 

but hey it works

[GeneralTater217]

My PC Temps wern't cool enough to my standard, so I ghetto mounted a single 100mm intake in a 120mm fan slot with one screw. My PC temps improved.