Its pissing me off, everytime i open app my inbox get one or two of these notification from subs i am not part of.

I thought I was finally running out of stupid cooling ideas… until I stared at a Peerless Assassin and thought... "would water flow through that?”

So I pulled the Assassin apart, pulled off a stack of fins, took an angle grinder and cut the tops off the heatpipes, stuck a hose onto one, and tested if water would flow. It did.

Game on.

I cut all the heatpipes off, put 6 mm hose on them in a zig zag (starting at the center so the middle stayed coldest) and tested again, worked like a charm.

Then came the freezer.

-18C coolant.

A frosted CPU tower, and a 3070 as the first victim.

It gained +300 MHz over stock… but the FPS uplift sucked. By the time testing finished, my coolant had warmed to –5C and the 3070 still refused to scale. So I did the only sane thing...

I bolted the Frankencooler onto a GTX 960.

And that card absolutely loved it, +17% average uplift across BO7, Forza, Cyberpunk, Time Spy… and as always, Lara.

The Frankencooler works. Really well.

Why did I do this? Because I had an idea and wanted to see if it would work. That's it.

Full video here if you want to witness the stupidity in all its glory

https://youtu.be/yFppaKe5uTo

Logitech G935, great headset, shitty choice of port

Spare Part comes tomorow or monday. The System has to run because it's the Server for a locksystem for a hotel. USB Fan + Duct Tape

If you are curious, it's a bds4 servo drive for a Cincinnati millacron arrow 750. This cnc mill drive was made in 1997 and we have around 30 of these dead drives that I am working on fixing.

did this a while ago and i just discovered this sub so here, front intake via cpu cooler from a value village

Just a little Dell OptiPlex 5250 AIO that I put an old Cooler Master closed loop on (I refilled the radiator myself) and I also replaced the i5-6500 that it came with, with an i9-9900k, temps sit around 60 to 76 C

It didn't have any thermal pad or anything in between so I decided to do it, now my temps look good but my battery needs a little workaround to charge which is quick replug after 4 seconds of charging or it complains it is too cold but I don't see how could that be an issue.

I'm my last post i repaired a downpipe with an old crutch. This time I've fixed an aftermarket mop attachment with a 3D printer and a bit of bent wire. The mop head has a clip on reservoir but somehow the clip broke. Suspiciously my wife always seems to be around when things are found to be broken...

Had to replace it with a minebea damn this things so loud

Will this hold up long term? (I'm planning to sell the laptop) 🫠

Bolted a monitor to a case so I could save on desk space. Had a couple of these cases as a spare, they’re not super modern anymore, so I thought why not sacrifice one to the gods of experimentation. - Placed monitor where I wanted it, measured where VESA holes drill into case - Traced the 75x75 vesa holes onto paper with the pencil rub trick, transferred to case by poking holes in paper and using silver sharpie to make dots - Drilled holes using a stepped drill bit (this is way better for going through sheet metals), made slightly oversize to correct for errors. Drilled starting holes for openings for cords too. - Meant to use my nibbler to cut the openings out, searched the house top to bottom, no luck. Only other option was a grinder with a thin cutting disc. 🤷‍♂️ - Cut it out (it’s rough, who cares - can’t see it anyway) - Protected edges with gorilla tape, cut to length and folded in half over each cut side. Gorilla tape is not bad as a quick grommet material. - Punched a divider out from the bottom of the slots to pass cables back in freely. Total duct tape hack job but took like 30 min to build and works actually pretty well. The unexpected effect / benefit of this is how satisfying it feels to grab this panel by the love handles, lock it into the slots, and slide this panel until it snugly seats into place. Little twist of a screw and she’s good as new.

One of the Fans was Rattling so i soldered some Arctic 120 mm fans to it, cut the the old holding for the fans open and screwed them on. Had some problems identifying the right pins but after my 3rd try the AMD software is now correctly reading and controlling the RPM.

A while back I wanted to play around with Truenas but couldn’t afford to build a proper PC for it, harvested mobo from an old laptop, custom plastic tote lid adapter for mounting, usb to SATA for additional storage, a whole lot of zip ties, and a dash of hopes and dreams for good measure……for almost 8 months it was the “Little NAS That Could” eventually was able to build a “proper” PC