Post your Good Ghetto mods

[Guest]

my most ghetto setup (not my pc) is my wireless charger:

 

 

 

 

(that's a piece of a hd 5850 vrm cooler )

[thedigitaldoctor]

Post your janky ghetto-tastic setups that work just fine.  Maybe it's because you're in a hurry, maybe it's because you're lazy, maybe it's because that's all you have on hand.  Because the show must go on!

 

I needed a straight-down shot in OBS while at my parent's house.  A free Android app and two small cans of paint later (my mother was clearing out a storage area) and I was good to go.

 

[Midnitewarrior4]

lemme see if i have my gpu cooler setup for my 970 while i was painting the shroud give me a bit, hopefully i still have it

[theninja35]

Why didn't you just hold the phone. Or maybe just use one paint can.

[thedigitaldoctor]

Why didn't you just hold the phone. Or maybe just use one paint can.

Needed both hands for handling stuff being shot by the jank-cam, and the phone would have fallen off the bottom can if it didn't have a second one holding it down.

[Midnitewarrior4]

ahh found it after searching through old content

 

sory its sideways but thats how all my pics turn out

its my 970 strix with a 80mm fan blowing on it since my shroud was being painted and i wanted to game, worked decently well

 

[Hackentosher]

My Phantom 410 can't have more than two drives installed in the cage when I have a graphics card longer than Chuck Norris' schlong in there, so I had to get creative when mounting my SSDs . Yes that's right, they are taped to the underside of my optical drive and on the bottom of the 5.25" cage. Also, do I get +5 overclock points for 3D printed cable combs?

[thedigitaldoctor]

Previous security company used cardboard when they ran out of electrical boxes.  Not sure if electrical code applies to CAT3...

[thekeemo]

My case

(see link one)

[thedigitaldoctor]

Needed a straight-down shot with a GoPro.  No tripod or stand available.  Used a roll of tape as a counterweight.

 

[ristan99]

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Did anyone say watercooling with a complete homemade everything?

Holy Altoids Batman. How is that even possible???

[ShiftHitTheFan]

Holy Altoids Batman. How is that even possible???

Duct Tape works wonders you know...

[mrmonmon2]

what it was http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/309322-iphone-4s-mod/

current undoing : http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/527389-lets-rebuild-an-iphone-4-with-a-4s/

[HrutkayMods]

Don't have a pic because my mom lives on the other side of the state, but her main desktop (an old Q9650 gaming rig with a GTX 580) was getting slow. So I bought her an SSD and the guy at the store said it came with the mounting bracket, it didn't. So I gutted a broken 5.25 DVD drive, cut the end and top of the drive case off, and drilled holes in the bottom. I secured the SSD with 2 screws in the bottom of the drive case and slid it into the bottom DVD drive bay. worked like a charm

[DragonTamer1]

CPU was getting too hot, needed better cooling for the case. Picked up a fan at radio crap with a molex connector and had to drill out more of the rear of the case to mount it.

 

Needed a graphics card so a friend sent me his old 760 SC, was more powerful than the entire computer.

 

Needed somewhere to put the power cables, oh look some empty 3.5 inch drive bays.

 

[RafaelSoaresP]

This thread

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/532268-gheto-working-at-its-best/

[TheRandomness]

http://linustechtips.com/main/gallery/album/3273-ghetto-cpu-cooling/

 

Stacking heatsinks. Your point is now invalid.

[Stefan1024]

http://linustechtips.com/main/gallery/album/3273-ghetto-cpu-cooling/

 

Stacking heatsinks. Your point is now invalid.

 

Does it actually improve the cooling?

It looks like the lower two heat sinks don't get much airflow but add thermal resistance to the top (main) cooler.

[TheRandomness]

Does it actually improve the cooling?

It looks like the lower two heat sinks don't get much airflow but add thermal resistance to the top (main) cooler.

It actually worked better than the stock cooler by itself on my 4790 I think it reached a max of 75-80 compared to 90~

[Stefan1024]

It actually worked better than the stock cooler by itself on my 4790 I think it reached a max of 75-80 compared to 90~

 

Nice, but there is still a bit room for improvement

[FmPhenom]

 

 

good ol zipties , about 5*C temp diff 

 

sorry for the crap cam quality 

Was your mod using Vaseline to fix the crack on your camera  ?

[Codyman125]

I've got a 750D now, it dropped the temps by 10 degrees.

IMG_20151023_194732.jpg

THAT MOTHERBOARD IS THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE.

 

for real though, I wanted that exact board, but could only get it refurb. bought one, and it had MASSIVE cuts on the back. returned and got another. failed to post. returned. bought a Z97 Extreme 6

[Codyman125]

Mine's served me well, I've been able to OC a non OC'able CPU from 3.9 to 4.1GHZ with it.

Haha, I really wanted one, just had a bad retailer I guess... soulda gotten one before they stopped being sold.

[ManWithBeard1990]

I hotglued a fan to a heatsink. Get rekt.

 

Hotglued Fan by tmcclelland455, on Flickr

On an AMD system? You've got balls mate.

[LazySpeck]

I hotglued a fan to a heatsink. Get rekt.

 

Hotglued Fan by tmcclelland455, on Flickr

Mommy, look a flying computer!