Are all your mods driven by NEED??

[DrP]

Got me thinking after i fitted an 80mm zalman fan in the back of my IDEQ 200t - "was my pc really gonna burn out if i didn't do it?"

I mean, for me most of the fun comes from the planning, cutting, perfecting etc that comes with the modding, and then i suppose the result (cooler CPU etc) is a real bonus!!

I bet it's real fun fitting and cutting all the components for watercooling, and i'd love to do it (money stopping me!)-  so for those who've done it, was it just so you could get better performance, or were you really looking forward to the hours of fun fiddling and bleeding systems etc??

Do we go out looking for what mods we can do, then think how it'll make our PCs better!

DrP (perhaps thinking too much??!!)

[DrP]

Are all your mods driven by NEED??

[Fanatik]

I`m doing watercooling but im mainly doing it because i like a challenge. I like it when people say you cant do this or that and then proving them wrong. Also im a modder by heart. Everything i own has been modded somehow. I was into fixing up my car and modding the crap out of it then got bored so moved onto computers.

[nosticky]

 I do it for the challange, boredom, the fun, and cause of the free time!

[MikeHotel]

Cutting crap up is my hobby.  It is all for the challenge.  I love that I have a custom water cooled PC that I built from the ground up, when most people can't use a dell to download pictures and burn a CD.  Good thread DrP

[Zid]

Mostly, either for better cooling but recently ive done things for quietness.

When im bored i tend to redo mods that are ghetto so that i get them done properly, thats why i modded my fanshroud.

[JJSYHT]

"planning, cutting, perfecting etc" is the interresting part. Then when i look at the result, i think "hmmmm, i kindda bored now, lets think and plan another mod" and it goes on n on n on...
tho the next mod (on my future shuttle) is a requirement. Zalman VGA cooler wont _____ fit in there

[lightprocess]

for me, i think it goes:

noise > functionality > aesthetics > performance

[ou7shined]

Hell yes, all my mods are driven by NEED.

The NEED to frivolously spend my meagre wages, the NEED to ignore my girlfriend every night, the NEED to not sleep - waiting for paint to dry or benchmarks and stability tests to end, the NEED to bore my mates - who haven't a clue what it is I'm doing or understand why I'm doing it, the NEED to lose my warranty, the NEED to forget I used to have a life before I had a shuttle.

but it's not all good, sometimes I go for minutes at a time not thinking about ways to quieten, cool or make easier on the eye..... my obsession.





I'm a wee bit drunk btw!

[MikeHotel]

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Originally posted by: strumhole
Hell yes, all my mods are driven by NEED.



The NEED to frivolously spend my meagre wages, the NEED to ignore my girlfriend every night, the NEED to not sleep - waiting for paint to dry or benchmarks and stability tests to end, the NEED to bore my mates - who haven't a clue what it is I'm doing or understand why I'm doing it, the NEED to lose my warranty, the NEED to forget I used to have a life before I had a shuttle.



but it's not all good, sometimes I go for minutes at a time not thinking about ways to quieten, cool or make easier on the eye..... my obsession.


What he said.....BTW I am a lot drunk.  Happy 4th of July!  








I'm a wee bit drunk btw!

[m00j]

using a tiny 80mm radiator to cool your CPU, inside the box, at the exact same position as the old cooling system is hardly going to get you much of a performance boost.  I think that watercooling has become just a new trendy mod, its the new window and neon of 4-5 years ago.  Anyone who thinks that they are going to get > a few degrees drop in temp is kidding themselves, and what does it really matter?  The temperature is not going to really help anything.

I had watercooling before in my old case, with a large 150x150 mm radiator, which sucked cool air in from outside and blew it out the other side.  When I ran it with a 80mm fan on low it stayed cool and quiet (hdd noise, thats another story!).  I could even run it without the pump turned on, but the water did get a bit warm and the pipes a bit soft.

My next system may have watercooling, but probably wont.  I am probably going to emulate the cooling in a Mac G5 system with the zoned cooling tunnels.

[jmbattle]

Well, I must say, whilst many of the modifications users here have applied to their systems seem like well executed ideas, a lot of the time, I look at pictures of the (un)finished results - usually with big holes and windows plastered all over the place - and just think to myself 'why bother?'

I haven't modded my system much - just replaced a few fans here and there, replaced the northbridge heatsink, oh, and chopped down the Shuttle heatpipe to fit a smaller Soldam case.  Yet the external appearance remains unchanged; in my opinion, the overall look of this system is already approaching near-perfection - not only that, it cost me a bloody arm and a leg; I'll be blowed if I'm going to start hacking it to pieces with (in my opinion) unnecessary mods!

Cheers,
James