My new Ghetto folding "box"

qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
edited May 2005 in Folding@Home
I managed to procure some parts for cheap off ebay and from the buy and sell and the result is shown below. A case was far too expensive and all of the components besides the mobo/cpu/ram have problems. The video card corrupts above 640x480, the cd-rom doesn't open, the fan spins for a minute and then stops and grinds and then spins again. Admiteddly the PSU works. To get the CD in the CD-rom I unscrewed the case and placed the CD on the cradle ;D .

She's now folding 24/7 for team 93 @ 2200 MHz (stock sempron cooler currently).

SM17 is having some trouble after a power outage earlier this week. She's got stuck on the last two units, downloaded and started up a new copy of F@H to see if it was maybe a bad core or something.

Comments

  • DonutDonut Maine New
    edited May 2005
    ;D
    And I thought my old 850 athlon was ghetto! :D

    Great job getting it all to run. :thumbsup:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    what was that thing i said about a strange sickness one time? ;D
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    That's just scary ;D
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    nice. Thats ghetto fresh.

    I ran a 400 celeron @ 450 in a cardboard K7S5A mobo box with a 800mb HDD and a NIC. It sat under the TV in a dorm room and worked well. The only problem was turning it on and off, when you had to use a pocket knife to jump the two pins to turn it on. Talk about taking a stab in the dark.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited May 2005
    You call that ghetto
    http://www.netpointfocus.co.uk/forum/files/000_0699_629.jpg
    That server there is running a website off of a 56k
    its a celoron 700 64mb of ram gygabyte motherboard with 2 dead ram slots ;D

    Btw, the mobo can't turn off on that one XD
    The video card needs to sit juuuust right otherwise it doesn't boot.
    And that CD is now dead.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited May 2005
    Great job! Us people with ghetto farms salute you! You are an inspiration. Fold it until the wheels fall off. :D
  • SoLoSoLo DirtySouth, USA
    edited May 2005
    LoL..Looks Stinky :wtf:
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    SoLo wrote:
    LoL..Looks Stinky :wtf:
    But you gotta understand what this Ghetto pc crazy is before you comment my friend...

    Paging Thrax to the thread ;D
  • SoLoSoLo DirtySouth, USA
    edited May 2005
    Whatever..still looks gross..!!
  • MrNiceGuyMrNiceGuy Denmark
    edited May 2005
    Mmm.. I love ghetto rigs :) Makes me wanna scavenge some poor computers around here..
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited May 2005
    Actually the PSU is new so its still burning in and does stink quite a bit! ;D
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited May 2005
    qparadox wrote:
    Actually the PSU is new so its still burning in and does stink quite a bit! ;D
    PSU = Pretty Smelly Unit :cool:

    Ghetto rulez, baby! :D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    Shorty wrote:
    But you gotta understand what this Ghetto pc crazy is before you comment my friend...

    Paging Thrax to the thread ;D

    Ghetto PCs are an afront to everything I stand for. ;D

    /me hides his cardboard + tinfoil WiFi antenna
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2005
    Hehe, Pringles Can.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    Thrax wrote:
    Ghetto PCs are an afront to everything I stand for. ;D

    /me hides his cardboard + tinfoil WiFi antenna
    I see 'em buster ;D
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