Project Ghetto Rig

[Coswar]

 

 

So here I have a completed Ghetto Rig made up of spare parts and slightly damaged parts that I had around the house or had taken out of my main Rig. I took the motherboard, CPU and one PSU from an old Dell Inspiron 530 and the GPU was an overheating one taken from my main Rig. The second PSU was in my box of spares, not sure where from and the Antec 300 was from my old rig.

 

 

So having these parts disused was annoying me, and I decided to see what I could create from them. I knew the Dell's PSU (305w) wouldn't be enough to power the 6970, so I looked into dual power supplies, and came out with what you see below.

 

 

One PSU for the Mobo/CPU and accessories and one for the Graphics card. There were a couple of methods to setting up dual PSUs, such as splicing them together so that the one switch would turn on both, but I wanted to be able to easily dismantle this machine if I had other/better uses for the parts. Instead I used a light switch mounted to a 5 1/4 " cover at the front, with the cables plugged into the relevant plugs on the 24 pin adapter.

 

 

 

 

I drew on the symbols to remind myself

 

 

The whole build only cost me around €5 for the switch and cable, the rest of the parts were free, and I now have a pretty decent spare rig, but I'm not sure how long the HDD will last, it's nearly dead.

 

 

List of specs are as follows:

 

Intel Core 2 Duo E6650 @ 2.33Ghz

2GB 800Mhz DDR2

Dell Inspiron Motherboard(P35)

HIS Radeon HD 6970 2GB (Reference)

2x 305w Generic PSU

Antec 300 Mid Tower( All 4 fans filled)

750GB Generic HDD

1x Lightswitch

 

 

Here are some screenshots of CPU Z etc ( I know that everyone hates Windows Experience Index - But I don't )

 

 

 

 

[Askew]

I CANNOT GET OVER THE LIGHT SWITCH ON IT that's fucking mind blowingly amazing 10/10 for that alone.

[DeViLzzz]

Just not sure what to say right now ...

but hey give me that video card for my son's socket 775 dual core rig.

[Coswar]

Just not sure what to say right now ...

but hey give me that video card for my son's socket 775 dual core rig.

You wouldn't want it- maxes out at 90c on easy running games like Wow

[Coswar]

I CANNOT GET OVER THE LIGHT SWITCH ON IT that's fucking mind blowingly amazing 10/10 for that alone.

Seemed like the best solution even if it does look ridiculous lol

[Askew]

Seemed like the best solution even if it does look ridiculous lol

 

It looks so ridiculous that it has to stay please don't remove it seeing that has made my day.

[d33g33]

Its so awesome in so many ways

[BonBon Scott]

Now I want a light switch

[Askew]

Now I want a light switch

 

                    me too....

[scaryjam823]

You could've left that drive bay cover in place, cut a hole for the switch and secured it that way. Would look more factory lol. But hey not bad for spare parts.

[Coswar]

You could've left that drive bay cover in place, cut a hole for the switch and secured it that way. Would look more factory lol. But hey not bad for spare parts.

I know what you mean, but one of my main angles for this was that I could take it all apart and have no damage to any of the parts. Cutting up stuff is too final for me Especially when it's only for the sake of using up parts.

 

Also- I don't think that would work looking at the measurements- I think i would have had to cut 2 of the covers, because under the 3rd cover is a metal plate, and that would have gotten messy

[flibberdipper]

I like it.

[G9x001]

Just add a fire extinguisher with remote and you are looking at one Ghetto rig. love it.

[helping]

I CANNOT GET OVER THE LIGHT SWITCH ON IT that's fucking mind blowingly amazing 10/10 for that alone.

omfg i died right there

+1 for modding ideas.