Lets share our "not recommended" things that we do to our computers. (Inspired by video about slicks build)

[elecxonica]

It's currently sitting under my desk on top of a really cheap, somewhat old plastic container. It's made a few noises, but seems stable enough. Gonna be moving it soon though.

 

Also, don't sit  it right next to where you sit. You will hit it. A lot.

[terrytek]

I have 4 120mm fans as my cooling fan, powered by a cheap 200W PSU. Hanging on my desk, cooling me off.

[Biased Opinion]

• LN2 CPU overclocking. Not recommend unless you know what you are doing. (I don't do this on my main computer)
• Voltage hacked MSi Afterburner to give me +100mV. Really bad idea, the extra performance is not worth it, but it's still pretty cool

I thought I had more, but for now, this is it

what do you mean the extra performance was not worth it, extra performance is always worth it.

[Volbet]

what do you mean the extra performance was not worth it, extra performance is always worth it.

is around 120MHz, or around 6% more than I can get from overclocking normally, worth the risk of burning your cards power delivery and/or GPU?

[Biased Opinion]

is around 120MHz, or around 6% more than I can get from overclocking normally, worth the risk of burning your cards power delivery and/or GPU?

yes

[Raid]

double sided tape + cardboard = hard drive silencer

[Nicolas]

I ghetto mounted a 120 mm fan on to my psu that uses a 140 fan because the original one stopped working and I'm already done with the waranty

[KemoKa]

1. I made my A10-5800K run a scrypt mining process using both a GPU miner and a CPU miner while I went to Japan for a week. A WEEK of my CPU and GPU running at 100%. My computer still lives.

2. I have a gigantic boombox sitting atop my MATX computer. It is bigger than the actual computer. thankfully the speakers are modular so I can put them on either side of the monitor.

3. My computer runs off of an Ark Technology stock PSU. that should be a sin in and of itself.

 

4. I recently bought a secondary DVD drive for my desktop for my dad (don't ask) and in true Linus tradition I had to really shove the unit into the box to get it to fit. It was a really tight squeeze. The drive didn't come with any screws, so I cannibalized two of the screws from the other drive and used them. Because I am too lazy to do it on the other side, my second drive is mounted on that one side.

 

5. I leave my PC open on my desk, though I hear a lot of other people also do that anyway.

 

6. My laptop probably runs hotter than I should allow, but it's an AMD, so there's not a right lot I can do about that...

[A Bubble]

Cutting the ESATA cable from your front IO because it's chunky, and utterly useless. It just makes clutter in the case.

[TheProfosist]

Cutting the ESATA cable from your front IO because it's chunky, and utterly useless. It just makes clutter in the case.

How dare you! Esata is a godsend and I wish more cases has it on the front.

[A Bubble]

How dare you! Esata is a godsend and I wish more cases has it on the front.

I have literally never seen/had the need for it. I hate my case anyway.

[tS_kStin]

Use more than 3 screws to mount a 240mm rad. Don't use the thermal paste that comes pre-applied. 

[DildorTheDecent]

Got a E-ATX motherboard in this mid tower ATX case > CM690 II Advanced Nvidia Edition. The cable management holes are half covered

 

Leak testing for 2hours not 24-48hours after coolant change.

No leaks no problem.

[DildorTheDecent]

My front grille was caked before I wiped it off to take setup pictures.

Some day I'll provide you a image of my glorious PSU filter 

[Champion-Craig]

YOU PUT A DILDO IN YOUR FAN?????????????

That is most screwed up thing I have ever heard lol.

[TheProfosist]

I have literally never seen/had the need for it. I hate my case anyway.

Its great for hooking up bare HDD, especially when diagnosing bad ones. Data to esata cable and a molex ac adapter. Was also nice back in the day when USB 3 didn't exsist or was in its infancy. Still nice though as I find sata II speed esata better than USB 3.0 for storage as its far more consistent and preforms just like having a HDD in your PC. Oh and sata III speed esata does exsist on newer boards.

[AustinKZombie]

I have all of my HDDS/SSDS(2xhdd 1xssd)Sitting on each other on top of a fan at the bottom,

My mobo wasn't going so i rammed it in scratched the shit out of the area around the mounting holes and I also only use 4 screws.

My cpu cooler was slightly too tall and I did want to exchange it for the smaller one so my side panel is flex to epically.

My graphics card didn't line up with the holes on the back so I zip tided it to the case.

There was a bread crumb stuck in my usb and I was to lazy to tip the PC so I used a knife to get it out and fired the front header usb ports on the mobo so my mobo can have front usbs anymore, what a shame 

[Nicolas]

My cpu cooler was slightly too tall and I did want to exchange it for the smaller one so my side panel is flex to epically.

I need a picture of that lol

[terrytek]

Its great for hooking up bare HDD, especially when diagnosing bad ones. Data to esata cable and a molex ac adapter. Was also nice back in the day when USB 3 didn't exsist or was in its infancy. Still nice though as I find sata II speed esata better than USB 3.0 for storage as its far more consistent and preforms just like having a HDD in your PC. Oh and sata III speed esata does exsist on newer boards.

I think FireWire is still better than ESATA. I never would use ESATA anyway.

[TheProfosist]

I think FireWire is still better than ESATA. I never would use ESATA anyway.

how is firewire better than eSATA? i would agree its better than USB 2.0 but eSATA is quite a stretch.