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Motherboard modding

  • 16-06-2004 7:18pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭


    I though some of you other modders might find a mod i did on an old socket A motherboard today interesting. I decided to take out the Intel AGP chip from the mobo and make it into a key ring.

    seven.jpg

    You can see a few other pictures here


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭Explosive_Cornflake


    What went so painfully wrong with the mobo?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    Nothing really. It was problably still in fully working order until i smacked it with a spade a couple of times and cut a few slits into the side with some hedge trimmers.

    It was just an old PII mobo, i have another couple about somewhere in this room. I just got bored with it and decided to turn it into a keyring i suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,484 ✭✭✭Gerry


    Good job, I used to have a simm as a keyring, but it was a bit big.. Must look into doing something like that, plenty of dead motherboards around here. Some very high precision spade smashing there :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    dont most chips have nasty chemicals in them that you definitely would not want to be breathinh as you drill a hole in them???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    Originally posted by BigEejit
    dont most chips have nasty chemicals in them that you definitely would not want to be breathinh as you drill a hole in them???

    I hope not. But at least it was kinda windy at the time so it all blew away. I still think any damage I might have got was worth it. My keys are the ones with the working "Intel AGPset" chip on it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭TacT


    lol, I remember a slightly more expensive one many years ago when I broke a pin off a socket 370 PIII 1.0Ghz, I believe mayordenis aka renton still has they keyring :)
    nice job! Might satisfying smashing computer things isn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,455 ✭✭✭weemcd


    thats very cool, i mite do that, i remember seeing on some program i think it was the tribe were this dude had a gold plated cpu on kis keyring, something similar to you and very cool


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭Ajnag


    Apparently Intel fecked a batch of chips a couple of years ago, and had them all turned in to Keyrings with a message to the affect, We make processers not keyrings or something like.This is 2nd hand info from a friend tho...


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