How not to build a computer

[SteinerW]

This is probably one of the most getto computer you guys will ever see

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I want to say i took the powersupply out of one enclosure and put in another one it didn't really fit in.

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Thats the mains that would normally be in the back of your power supply.

 

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For how getto it is, there was some care put into it. What isn't show in any pictures is the cardboard side panel in detail.

Its from a newegg box and it said "May contain awesome" in the top left corner. We covered everything but that in black ducktape, then colored the text red. we put a mesh vent where the gpu was for cooling.

 

I'll I have to say is this thing was super thrown together and you really shouldn't do what i did with the power supply.

[meenmeen1103]

I like it

[Guest]

I agree on the iffy PSU... Otherwise, I can beat that.

 

*EDIT: if you want proof, send me a msg, and I'll post here.

[SteinerW]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

I agree on the iffy PSU... Otherwise, I can beat that.

Its as getto as it gets before a cardboard box tbh

[SteinerW]

2 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

I agree on the iffy PSU... Otherwise, I can beat that.

 

*EDIT: if you want proof, send me a msg, and I'll post here.

I want to see this

 

[Guest]

Let me take a few pics of my pc. (I will get some of the junk out of the way...)

 

[Guest]

@3DGamerOnSteam Crap, pulled off a side pannel, can't get it back due to ghetto. Btw, do you need any gangsta hand signs as proof as it's my computer?

[SteinerW]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

@3DGamerOnSteam Crap, pulled off a side pannel, can't get it back due to ghetto. Btw, do you need any gangsta hand signs as proof as it's my computer?

No, I believe you

[Mira Yurizaki]

 

No matter how you slice it, the cardboard box PC screams ghetto.

[SteinerW]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

No matter how you slice it, the cardboard box PC screams ghetto.

I mean yeah, but I tricked out that case. It scrap metal but I made it work. that cardboard box is not tricked out.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

It scrap metal but I made it work.

This is 100% what I am going for with my case. Starting to upload atm btw.

[iamdarkyoshi]

53 minutes ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

I want to see this

 

How about my 40mm thick gaming laptop with desktop parts?

[Guest]

This is how my PC was, when I replyed. Had installed an SSD a few days ago, and fron panel was partly removed, so I could check if my PSU had a 6 pin connector. (it had one)

I found this case as scrap metal. It looked sturdy, so I took it home. 5.25" bays didn't have their origional sliding thingies, so I had to make it work, if I wanted a DVD/cd-rom player. I used an angle grinder, to take out those simple 5.25" side walls of my old case. Had to bend them a bit, to get them really stuck. (didn't have a good welder back then) When force applied, you can move the dvd player back and forward.

The square hole top left was a place where some kind of button used to be. I removed it on purpose. That's the 24/7/365 life. (starting up = power of/power on, auto boot on power loss setting @ bios) The holes next to the square thing, housed a mounting bracked for power on and HDD LED's. Who needs them, you can hear the HDD's and fans working.

I live like a hermit, and when I leave my house, I don't want to be connected. So a hard-lined old phone has been mounted to the side of my computer pannel.

It's an old PTT telecom phone, "the only" phone company, which changed it's name to KPN in 1989, guess how old that phone is. Works fine!

I have a secondary screen in another room. There needs to be some audio to, so why not use a 50 cents 6 way audio splitter? Because they break while looking at them. Pulled it appart, fixed it, put it back with the use of rubber bands.

This is the pannel I couldn't get back. This is the back side of the "phone pannel". You can see the hard wire making an L. I had to break of those reinforcement pieces of plastic. Also needed to drill a hole to hang the phone on. Putting this plate back was a b*tch. Ductape ftw, to keep the cable somewhat in place.

Lil bit of dust, by that's not the point. PSU didn't fit, and you can still see a small gap @ the bottom. Have drilled a new hole somewhere, and had to bend a few flaps of metal.

 

 

Other side pannel... (last of the front pannel fell off, while mounting that other side back to it's place...)

The place where the fans are, werent there origionaly. But the case used to have alot of strength. Used an angle grinder to make this nice hole. Afterwards, all strength had gone, and only the plastic kept the metal together. So I welded the corners back together. Strength = back! (why clean up the welds? No one will see...)

I used to have 3 HDD's, but I only had 2 3,5" HDD places, so I welded in another tray from another computer case. Why clean up, while it fits and works. (mounting more HDD's then the case was supposed to contain was the main reason to mount those 120x120 fans on that side pannel...)

As I said, I bought a new SSD last week! Still there, still going strong. I really should mount this Kingston Hyper X Savage, 240 gb next to those HDD's... I even can't close the case, and it's connected to the DVD SATA cables, because I used the bottom free cables at that time, to clone an HDD...

Some previously mentioned random SATA cables. The HDD that needed to be cloned, was an 110 gb 8 year old laptop HDD, so after cloning, I disconnected it. (why waist 2-3 weeks of back-up OS lifespan)

My large copper Zahlman blue LED CPU cooler... Was more expencive then the CPU itself, when I bought it new. Origional fan failed 7 years after 24/7/365 use, and every 6 months a good cleaning session + sewing machine oil. So I had to mount new fans, had some 80x80 laying somewhere. CPU cooler blocks + zip ties = great, but those copper fins are flimsy as hell... Had to line things up >>> strips of wood now align/support those 2 fans. (more cooling power then before, push/pull)

Someone thought his SATA connectors were a bit dusty, and this causing a bad connection... Well, I think his well hidden laptop SSD had a bigger problem. This dust is not an issue at all. (due to those 2 120x120 mm fans blowing on it, dust buildup is huge... This is maybe 3 months since last clean out, with a tooth brush.

Those shiny metal strips would go all the way down. But it's flimsy useless and pointless crap. After cutting myself on one of those, I removed 2 of them. Removing last strip... Well, that piece didn't cut me, and I am lazy.

I used to use screws to mount them fans in the plastic, covering the metal sheet. But after unbolting them to often, they didn't work anymore. Using zip ties pilled tight in to small holes, fans are fixed really good. Oh, and those round holes... I melted them in using an old knife, and some fire. Using a saw would leave to many marks on the outside.

Inside of the previously missing top front pannel. I used to have some filter added there, but the fans I use aren't that good at push, nor pull. You can also see a piece of metal glued in there.

Cablemanagement is to much work. Just pressed everything back together, and added the front pannel. This is how my computer should look. And yes, that rust is intentional! (think of rat rod cars) Like my green sticker btw?

Reason for adding the rusty metal plate was a huge gaping hole. Because I found this case somewhere, it didn't have all the covers for them 5.25" bays. Used to have 2 dvd players, but gave one away, which left me with that hole. This way I cover up the floppy disk area, all the 5.25" bays, no-power-button-master-race thingy, and no red/green leds anymore. (although I might install some blue leds, for an aged iron man look/feel) Due to the flash on my camera, you can "look into the computer case", below the metal plate. With normal lights, you can't.

I used to have nice covers on them fans, placed there with hotmelt/hot glue. But they restricted the airflow to much. Luckily the fans are out of sight.

Piece of the origional bottom air inlet. Had to modify it to allow for 2x 120x120mm fans to cool my HDD's and push air through the entire computer.

I like sturdy plate metal computer cases, like they used to make. If you are only 10 years working with computers, you might not know the quality of computer cases back then. I have used this case as a work bench, and I have a small cut in the top of my computer case panel. Was using it as a sawing bench, while the computer was on... This is the only think I don't like about my computer. (look to the left of the metal sun thingy)

[Guest]

Some more info about the hardware. 2007 CPU/mobo/PSU, case itself age unknown.

 

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 bit, X2, 4200+. Stock speed is 2.2 ghz, OC to somewhere between 2.7-2.8 ghz ish.

Motherboard: Asus M2N Deluxe SLI. Seems to be an OC board. Half the USB connectors are broken. 6 months after buying this board, I dropped a screw while fixing the graphics card >>> fried my onboard soundcard. Disabling the onboard soundcare fixed the "not booting into windows" problem. Some of those wires inside the PCB got broken, tryed to solder it with external wire, didn't work, taped it off, left it there. No pics of that, because I would have to disassemble my entire pc.

Memory: started out with 1 gb of DDR2 @ 667 mhz, added 1 more, removed 1 stick put a 2 stick, removed last 1 gig stick, so now 2 sticks of 2 gb. One of my 4 ram slots is broken, so I can't add more.

Audio: due to broken build-in audio, used for 5 years a cheap USB audio sound card. Got broken, replaced by an old Creative Soundblaster Live! 5.1 surround sound PCI card.

Current storrage: 240 gb Kingston HyperX Savage, 2x hdd, total of 5 tb.

GPU: currently on my 4th vid card. Currently it's a Gainward passive cooled GT 610, with 1 gb of vram.

Other crap:

-I have used an PCI USB card, to get more USB ports. Got broken, got removed.

-Installed a bluetooth thingy to connect my pc with my mobile phone. Never used it. Phone got stolen, bluetooth thingy removed to.

-Installed a PCI IDE raid controller, to add moar IDE ports. (mobo had only 1)

-160 gb WD hdd, blown up PCB.

-250 gb WD hdd, same model as the 160 gb, also blown up PCB. I don't want any western digital ever again.

-400 gb Samsung HDD, lasted for like 7-8 years as C drive, 24/7. Failed, could back-up.

-110 gb OLD 2,5" laptop drive, used as a temp replacement as OS drive. (want to spare life on storage HDD's) Got removed after installing SSD.

-Couple of webcams.

 

Computer is extremely stable, I usually reboot only once every +/- 6 months, to clean it out. I will disconnect everything, and replace those GPU and CPU paste crap. I will clean my parts with a tooth brush. My fans get cleaned with water, and dryed off. After they are dry, I put a few drops of sewing machine oil to the bearings of the fans, and put it all back together. Also the PSU gets cleaned. The computer does everything I want it to do. It's just not for modern gaming, but I am ok with that.

 

This computer might be considered crap, but it's MY computer, and I love it. I will get some new used hardware this week, but I will keep the case.

 

*EDIT: forgot to mention. When watching youtube, and 20+ firefox tabs open, with windows media player on the back ground and skype running, it still blows COLD AIR out of most holes. Front and top back.