you know not the horrors behind this graphics card

[SnappyCat360]

I'm making a really cheap pc for one of my freinds and i finally got my hands on a 580, however the sata connectors interfere with the graphics card, so i cut up part of the graphics card shroud to fit. however the fan is now floppy because one of the mounts for the fan got lopped of, and the defualt pcie optiplex clip doesnt work becuase the thing the clip latches onto no longer fits. I need a new powersupply and its on its way so thats why there was a hole. It's an optiplex 790 mt with a custom air filter and fan, with a crucial bx500 ssd boot drive and the stock 2 tb drive that it came with. whole build cost 133$, including selling the old power supply

[SnappyCat360]

and btw that is an alan key holding up the gpu

[VicBar]

This is exactly the kind of jank solutions that Optiplex recycled builds are meant to get xD

 

Congrats on helping out a friends with your computer knowledge. Maybe try to fix that fan support with some glue or smth so it at least cools properly!

[Needfuldoer]

If you're never going to use 3.5" drives again, take the motherboard out then drill out the rivets holding the drive cage in place. Tape the SSD somewhere else.

[VicBar]

A Dremel will make quick work of any small mods like what he proposes.

1 minute ago, Needfuldoer said:

If you're never going to use 3.5" drives again, take the motherboard out then drill out the rivets holding the drive cage in place. Tape the SSD somewhere else.

Remember you can always look for someone to ask to borrow tools if you don't have something.

[StDragon]

Needs more duct tape.