Because I was bored. So this was my Sunday afternoon:
Radeon RX 460 with a PCIe extender, working on a Ubuntu Live setup. Time to proceed.
Cut in the frame to route the PCIe extender through. This isn't the ideal route for a short extender, that's marked with the pencil line but it goes straight through the 2,5" frame bracked which is harder to cut. The cutout pictured here needed to be extended further on the right by a few centimeters.
So the extenter fits, it goes a short length below the board before crossing to the other side of the middle structure. It is in no way a good extender: it's a ribbon cable type with metal cladding, as basic as they come. Hopefully it'll still function at a decent speed without much issue.
Crappy cutout at the back (right on the photo), but it fits well there. Although now the side panel doesn't close with that small heatsink sticking out.
So Monday after work I finished the mod by cutting the side panel and mounting a Noctua 92mm x 15mm fan:
This'll do for now. I'll know how it'll run once I've installed an OS but I have no spare storage device lying around, tomorrow I'll get one and be able to install, test and tweak it. This is going to be a LAN PC to make a friend happy that just borrows someone else's laptop for our LAN parties.
Radeon RX 460 with a PCIe extender, working on a Ubuntu Live setup. Time to proceed.
Cut in the frame to route the PCIe extender through. This isn't the ideal route for a short extender, that's marked with the pencil line but it goes straight through the 2,5" frame bracked which is harder to cut. The cutout pictured here needed to be extended further on the right by a few centimeters.
So the extenter fits, it goes a short length below the board before crossing to the other side of the middle structure. It is in no way a good extender: it's a ribbon cable type with metal cladding, as basic as they come. Hopefully it'll still function at a decent speed without much issue.
Crappy cutout at the back (right on the photo), but it fits well there. Although now the side panel doesn't close with that small heatsink sticking out.
So Monday after work I finished the mod by cutting the side panel and mounting a Noctua 92mm x 15mm fan:
This'll do for now. I'll know how it'll run once I've installed an OS but I have no spare storage device lying around, tomorrow I'll get one and be able to install, test and tweak it. This is going to be a LAN PC to make a friend happy that just borrows someone else's laptop for our LAN parties.
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