What was your most "ghetto" pc mod?

[slightlyhuman]

fan broke on tnt2 so i got a 80mm fan and held it against the heatsink with 2 rubberbands..

also used masking(sp?) tape to hold a 80mm fan to the front of an old case to take in air.

 

[Zee]

drilled holes in the front and back for better airflow

 

[JDMnAR1]

I had a craptastic Acer that was given to me because it had a dead PSU. The only spare PSU I had used a different type of switch (seems like one was a 4 conductor, and one was 2, or a rocker switch versus a push button, or something like that), and the original power switch was a PITA to get to and swap out. So, since it had this really funky drive bay door, I mounted a second power switch in one of the unused 5.25" drive bays behind the door. Don't get the wrong impression and think I was stylish about it, and mounted it to a drive bay cover or something. Nope - pulled the cover and mounted it to the drive cage - didn't even keep the nice looking switch bezel. It was truly ghetto, and I wasn't sad to see it go.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

its gotta be the classic - side of the case off with large deskfan blowing into the case

 

[FFactory0x]

I got the best! I posted it in the summer. It was so hot my cpu oc was over heating. Not anymore! Downed it to like 25c under load.


Two trash bags end to end taped to seal in the middle then taped each end to both computer and ac

I took down the picture but will up it later

 

[DeMeo]

tin foil and a spoon

oh wait, that was something else.
never mind.

 

[MisterJackson]

My work PC

 

[CraigRT]

home made watercooling system on my old K6-III back in the day.
consisted of a home made heatsink with water tight tubes/fittings and the pipes ran to a cooler full of ice and water with a fish tank pump in it.

it was enough to keep my CPU right around room temp under load. sweet.

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Gurck
The old 16" room fan mod ;p

I have to raise my hand on this one too. It worked

 

[liquidblue]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Gurck
The old 16" room fan mod ;p

I have to raise my hand on this one too. It worked

On the hot days when I had no AC it worked great. I also drilled holes on the side panel and zip tied fans to them when I needed the big fan for myself. =)

The most guetto mod I've ever seen must've been this dude's pc laying his components on a desk and "jumping" the pc with two wires.

 

[kreactor]

logitech 5.1 pc subwoofer along w/ my polk r30s + infocus x1 as my home theater system

 

[squirrel dog]

I hit the side of a case with a 12 ga. using # 4s gnawed a nice sized hole there.I put a 90m fan in that hole . It got to where I would laugh so hard every time I looked at it I gave it to a coworker.She still wonders why I got mad at the computer.

 

[Freejack2]

I'd have to say it was when I was running 300 and 250 watt power supplies in tandem to power my system. (Basically you merge the wires for both power supplys into the motherboard power connector) It worked great but it was just wierd having a power supply sitting on the floor outside the case. A couple of years ago I finally spent the money to get an Antec Truepower 550.

 

[1Master]

A penny taped to the grill of my heatsink fan to keep the fan balanced

 

[Cawchy87]

How could I forget!!

Jumping the mobo with a screwdriver for over a month while my computer had no case.

 

[quakefiend420]

i have a server inside of a kicker 12" sub box...using a cd-rom audio cable and a staple as a power switch

got two fans in there as well...drives are stacked on top of each other...the bottom drive is in a cage...the rest have static bags in between them

 

[Neurorelay]

Originally posted by: hdeck
i put a fan in my case and mounted it with twist ties

I took the slot blanks in the back, drilled some holes in them and mounted a fan on them pointing at my voodoo2 setup...back in the days with an iNwin case...you could buy a nicer equivalent, but hey, modding at its finest and for its purpose, to be cheap.

 

[loup garou]

I used bubble gum and a pushpin to make a broken plastic button reach the power switch.

 

[KoolDrew]

none...

 

[Kelemvor]

Nothing too bad but I have an old Bigfoot hard drive that is so big I had to take off the plastic cover for the drive bay and it stuck out the front. The Power Supply was right in line with all the 5.25" bays so I coudln't slip it back any more. Looked kind of weird having a hard drive sticking otu of the case.

 

[ktehmok]

Converted an old AT tower to ATX with a cordless sawzall

 

[thirtythree]

Don't have any.

 

[aplefka]

I just bought a 19" CRT monitor for 30 bucks.

Not too ghetto, except that it's made by some company called Likom and I got it off Craigslist.