† Sîұh Fallënheart †
comp modding/upgrading feedback
2009-06-08 10:14 PM PDT
I will leave a feedback of the work I'm doing on my comp, the hardware changes basically. Since that's an unfinished work, I will be completing this entry as I'm working on it...
--> That's my worktable
Entry one. 06/09/2009
That's a work I did weeks ago in fact, but now I decided to blog it. When I came from my last home because of reforms to my parent's house, and I had to thoroughly clean my desktop comp becasue of all that shit it was accumulating. I used the fact of having to disarm it completely for adding some improvements.
First I had to repair a hard drive my mother broke by unpluggin it from the corrent with all her brightness... (I taken it like a "gift" for coming back to home ¬¬ )
--> my broken Western Digital 600 Gb SATA unit (right)
I must to say I love Iomega (the publishers on this case) guys, becuse they entrusted me another unit in replacement. I asked them for keeping my damaged unit to try to salve some lost data. They said they do not afford data recovery costs but they agreed with trying to resque it by my own way, and finally I did not just recover my data back but I made my damaged hard drive funtional again B)
Since the problem was produced by a electricity mistake, I knew its magnetical discs whoulnd't be phisically damaged but some integred circuit got fused. It had its SATA board wrong (the circuit that transfers the 4-pins HDD connection into a standard SATA signal), so I was able to slave it on another external drive, using another SATA circuit. Then, I kept it into an old's Elements case.
Second steep, I added a dual fan to my main HDD:
I modified its alluminium box, using an extra slot for slave discs for this kind of ventilation. Once built, hot air is erased by frontal airholes, behind the ON-LED-button:
--> that hole, dessigned to be a passive vent, now works like an active airhole (fans are behind the holey wall)
Then, comes my graphic card. It's really just a temporal change, since I know my old nVidia GeForce 5500 FX is... old. Well, I know it could be placed in a musseum lol. But I've got love... and I haven't money actually to buy a notably better one (so I want thiiis lol). My old card have worked fine time ago. Until I "half-fused" it, destroying its cooling system. Now looks thus:
might seems to come thus by factory, but it isn't. In fact is taking two slots and the new cooler keeps the card under its average temperature marked by factory (I can overcloke it with more safeness than before).
--> the pieces I basically used for my new cooler system, with a some modification on the board itself for allowing me to hold on and manage fan's revolutions
--> the cooler itself, front (up) and rear (down)
And for last, I located a PCI-fan (using another case fan) with an extra alluminium piece on the case. Its revolutions are managed by my motherboard and has improved notably my TV card and especially my graphic card:
The best is that's a case modification, so when I will upgrade my graphic card it will stay there yet. And now my comp looks cool
Finally I just fixed some litle problems my comp had:
--> the DVD box button was broken. I fixed it with a pin holded with fused plastic paste
--> I fixed the ON button (that was holded weaker) and I added a led that shines when comp is working
And... that's all for now. I said at the begining, it's an unfinished work... So it's quite functional at the moment. The following are my average actual temperatures, after being working continuously during 14+ days:
________________
Motherboard: 34 ºC
CPU core: 49 ºC
graphic card: 37 ºC
main HDD: 29 ºC
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--> That's my worktable
Entry one. 06/09/2009
That's a work I did weeks ago in fact, but now I decided to blog it. When I came from my last home because of reforms to my parent's house, and I had to thoroughly clean my desktop comp becasue of all that shit it was accumulating. I used the fact of having to disarm it completely for adding some improvements.
First I had to repair a hard drive my mother broke by unpluggin it from the corrent with all her brightness... (I taken it like a "gift" for coming back to home ¬¬ )
--> my broken Western Digital 600 Gb SATA unit (right)
I must to say I love Iomega (the publishers on this case) guys, becuse they entrusted me another unit in replacement. I asked them for keeping my damaged unit to try to salve some lost data. They said they do not afford data recovery costs but they agreed with trying to resque it by my own way, and finally I did not just recover my data back but I made my damaged hard drive funtional again B)
Since the problem was produced by a electricity mistake, I knew its magnetical discs whoulnd't be phisically damaged but some integred circuit got fused. It had its SATA board wrong (the circuit that transfers the 4-pins HDD connection into a standard SATA signal), so I was able to slave it on another external drive, using another SATA circuit. Then, I kept it into an old's Elements case.
Second steep, I added a dual fan to my main HDD:
I modified its alluminium box, using an extra slot for slave discs for this kind of ventilation. Once built, hot air is erased by frontal airholes, behind the ON-LED-button:
--> that hole, dessigned to be a passive vent, now works like an active airhole (fans are behind the holey wall)
Then, comes my graphic card. It's really just a temporal change, since I know my old nVidia GeForce 5500 FX is... old. Well, I know it could be placed in a musseum lol. But I've got love... and I haven't money actually to buy a notably better one (so I want thiiis lol). My old card have worked fine time ago. Until I "half-fused" it, destroying its cooling system. Now looks thus:
might seems to come thus by factory, but it isn't. In fact is taking two slots and the new cooler keeps the card under its average temperature marked by factory (I can overcloke it with more safeness than before).
--> the pieces I basically used for my new cooler system, with a some modification on the board itself for allowing me to hold on and manage fan's revolutions
--> the cooler itself, front (up) and rear (down)
And for last, I located a PCI-fan (using another case fan) with an extra alluminium piece on the case. Its revolutions are managed by my motherboard and has improved notably my TV card and especially my graphic card:
The best is that's a case modification, so when I will upgrade my graphic card it will stay there yet. And now my comp looks cool
Finally I just fixed some litle problems my comp had:
--> the DVD box button was broken. I fixed it with a pin holded with fused plastic paste
--> I fixed the ON button (that was holded weaker) and I added a led that shines when comp is working
And... that's all for now. I said at the begining, it's an unfinished work... So it's quite functional at the moment. The following are my average actual temperatures, after being working continuously during 14+ days:
________________
Motherboard: 34 ºC
CPU core: 49 ºC
graphic card: 37 ºC
main HDD: 29 ºC
