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Old 11-10-2009, 12:35 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I love having the skills....

So I got this win7 RC dvd, and wanted to drop it on my old 939 system. I crack open the case because I want to drop in my 7900GT. Oh wait, no 6-pin PCI-E power plug.

No problem. I go and get a beer. Sam Adams winter lager. Good shit, and very seasonal. Highly recommended.

I grab an old antec PSU that gave up the ghost years ago and cut one 6-pin PCI-E plug off internally. I cut them even, strip the insulation off the tips and take the PSU out of my old case. It's a dual 12v rail forton PSU. Old but in very good shape. I cut some leads out of it a while back because I had too many worthless leads laying around in the case, so now it was a matter of slapping one back on. I found the 12v leads I had shrink wrapped and stripped them on the ends. I did the same with my grounds. I only had 2 12v leads, so I chose to double up on one coming from the 3 12v lead 6-pin plug. No problem, this will carry plenty of juice for this card.

I tinned all my leads then soldered it all up, shrank my heatshrink over the bare metal and slapped it back in the case. Not one glitch. Perfect.

Now my old ass PSU is PCI-E compliant. Love it

Win7 aint bad either, but I wouldn't pay full price for it. Need to go find someone in college to get me one
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Old 11-10-2009, 07:45 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Nice!!! I've did amalgamation stuff like this before in PCs also. Last week at work I unscrewed the metal casing of a videocard and put another casing on it so it would fit in a full height case. I had to bend some of the metal off where it connects to the case so it would fit. I essentially turned a half height videocard into a standard height videocard. It didn't look too bad either!!!
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Old 11-10-2009, 11:24 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Hahaha nice.

So far, win7 on a 3500+ with 1GB of ram and a riva TNT is running smoothly. Yes, I said riva TNT LOL. Aero isn'r enabled by default because of the card, but I have transparency enabled on some widgets and that is running good.
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