Computer Fan-tasy Or Nightmare?
Submitted by: Kyle S. via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Stoneshop says, “It’s more like this one spontaneously emerged from a computer kludger’s junk box, ’scuse me, spare parts stock after tossing a roll of duct tape in.”
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Wall-E does not approve
It came to take out the trash.
Amazingly, I find the WALL-E toy somehow wildly appropriate.
yes, but the mudkip and blaziken, both computer-non-compatible types, defeat both your trash-type wall-e and your kludge-type computer.
“Wall-e uses trash box! Blaziken was trashed!”
“computer uses Kludge! Mudkip was water-proofed with duct tape!”
“Marth calls back Blaziken and sends out Mudkipz!”
“So I hear you like mudkipz.”
“GO! MUDKIPZ! USE SHOOP DA WHOOP!”
“Mudkipz is charging his lazer!”
“Computer used Kludgebomb! Mudkipz mouth was duct taped shut!”
“Mudkipz swallowed his lazer!”
“Mudkipz asplodes!”
“Wall-e fainted! Computer fainted! Mudkip fainted! Mudkipz died!”
“Duct tape gains 9001 exp.”
“Marth: IT’S OVER NINE THOUSAND!”
“you received cake for victory.”
“GlaDoS: The cake is a lie.”
“Marth: NOEZ! FURST MAH BUKKOT, AND NAO U TAEKS MAH KAEK?”
“lolrus: Mah bukkot.”
“trashcat is not amused.”
so many memes in one post. have you ever met a bigger geek than I?
I am greatly saddened by the lack of reference above to either longcat or tacgonol.
Well, I hope it has more computing power than the Atari sticker indicates.
Honestly at this point, Why not consolidate, remove the side panel, duct tape on the household box fan, wire it to Military Grade safety toggle switch and go
That type of switch is not allowed in a kludge. It would show intelligence.
I agree. They probably have the fans directing the airflow wrong, and just look at that mess of wires on the left. Having been a case modder since the early 90s (yes, early 90s), this picture makes my stomach queasy. Are they not aware that Harbor Freight almost always has a sale on zip ties? The front looks like it’s been subjected to years of tobacco and Cheeto stains. ‘Scuse me, I gunna frow up nao.
“No, honey! We don’t need to buy a computer, I found out that you can just build one!”
It’s more like this one spontaneously emerged from a computer kludger’s junk box, ‘scuse me, spare parts stock after tossing a roll of duct tape in.
I’m wondering why they put red and yellow reflective tape on it. Is this thing designed to hit the road at night or what?
You’re exactly right. That massive fan on the front doubles as a propeller.
Nonsense! I just found out the one we bought Daisy at a garage sale when she was 6 still works!
“Cool” Computer for little jimmy for Christmas… CHECK.
“Keep your 2 yr old away from this thing!”
Somehow, that does not look child friendly!
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why dont you just put a damn jet turbine next to it.
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but jet turbine exhaust is actually kinda hot. It’d be somewhat counter-effective if you’re trying to cool down a computer, though they’re great for drying your hair after showering.
Overclocked much? Or is your computer just that old?
Mybe this kludge was done by a computer geek with ADHD! Which would be so ironic since there’s an “ATTENTION” sticker on the front.
LOL where’s this guy’s I’m a PC ad.
At least there’s a need for the fans, fugly yes but with purpose.
This router fan mod however serves no purpose.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bear24rw/tags/rosewill/
aside from the idiot lights, it does seem to have a purpose. I take it you never stressed your router to the point of burning it up?
I don’t see the router, much less one with extra cooling. I’ve stressed mine plenty over the 5-6 years I’ve had it, including having toys sitting on top of it.
You can never have too much cooling.
i see am image on the LCD panel in the background, yet none of the additional fans seem to be turning… this kludge really blows… NOT!!!
fans not turning? or – just PERHAPS – it was turned off? or just a fast shutter speed?
Either the guy installed a fan controller (kludged from an oven thermostat, and not visible in this picture because it’s on the right side of the case) to reduce (but actually exacerbate) the fan noise (a constant noise tends to get blotted out, one that pulses on and off doesn’t), or he’s readying the computer to cook his TV dinner in.
Wall-E on top is this computer’s guardian angel.
i see an image on the LCD panel in the background, yet none of the additional fans seem to be turning. this kludge really blows… NOT!!!
What? All PCs look like this to me. It’s like people think, maybe if I stick this extra video card -or- CPU cooler -or- faster USB card in my PC, maybe then it won’t suck. Nope? Well what if I add one of these?
I think you meant -and- where you wrote -or-.
HAL 9000 is not pleased
Blow it out your ear, Dave, I’m not cool with that.
Wall-E is just afraid, the monster PC fan is sucking it.
I just love that Mudkip sitting on top there.
and the blaziken, so awesome
XD Agreed.
“So I herd u lyke MUDKIPZ?”
Is ironic that they put Wall-E up there, or just prophetic?
What?? I don’t get it, it looks fine to me!!!
WALL-E stands by for the inevitable moment when this thing burns out and it can be compacted with the rest of hopelessly broken electronics.
I’ve had overclocked machines that look a little like this…
As for the fans “not turning” I can only assume that’s because it is a photograph and not a video animation. Want to play a fun game? Look up at a ceiling fan and blink your eyes really fast. The fan blades are slowing down! Weeeird, huh. (Attempt at sarcastic humor for parody purposes only, if dissatisfied with sarcastic humor poster will refund 100% of money paid for defective humor product, guaranteed).
This photo is making me want to grab a camera and take a tour of my husband’s “studio”. He might get mad at me if he saw his magnificent creations on this blog though…
Quick, call CERN and tell them I’ve fixed their hedron collider!
Not everything that crashes is a collider.
Win
That’s “hadron”.
Well, this takes case modding to a whole new level …
Well if the multiple fans don’t speed it up and keep it “cool”, the red/yellow racing stripe sure will. At full speed I bet it turns orange.
What! No Legos
No but plenty of duct tape!
If your computer needs to be cooled this badly, just stick the damn thing in the freezer.
Photo taken in thereifixedit server room?
Is that a computer or a small wind tunnel?
WALL-E Likes Mudkipz.
Also: Honey, the air conditioner is broken, I’m gonna go play WoW until I cool down.
This setup has multi uses;
1. Super cooling of CPU.
2. Quick drying of your hair after a shower.
3. Keeps the small animals away from the keyboard – as long as you don’t reverse the fan direction.
Note to GreenPeace: Source of Global Warming located; intervention needed at once!
Just imaging a conversation about his computer being too slow. Here it is:
This computer’s owner: My computer is to slow, what to do?
Random tech geek:Overclock it, it won’t hurt it
This computer’s owner: I can’t overclock any more, Even one MHz would put it into thermal shutdown. Here’s a pic:
(Picture shown at the top)
Another tech geek: New computer maybe?
As I’m not seeing tubes carrying liquid nitrogen into the case, I have to say there’s still PLENTY of leeway for another Gigahertz or two.
Mini-Hadron Collider ready for duty.
Yes! Ready to collid ewith decency!
Nice cable management there!
I don’t know what you lot are on about, I think it looks pretty cool.
Look, man, we understand that you lost your virginity up against that computer (that ONE time you had sex) but it’s time to let it go for the safety of the other people who have to live in the Barbie Tenement House who don’t want to die in a fire.
I have that exact same Atari sticker on my old computer. It came free with Unreal Tournament ’04.
A real computer cooling kludge would be a car radiator connected for liquid cooling. Sticking a few fans on is child’s play.
A car radiator’s been done too. Now, a moonshine still…
Lol, moonshine still.
Bet it runs Linux.
Hey guys, come on. The only thing more important than cooling for a home system is power supply. Fortunately, he’s clearly got one of those too.
The Wall-E unit is cowering in fear of what will happen next.
This is not a computer, this is an air conditioner!
So, what kind of CPU do you have? An AMD Sempron? Or an AMD Athlon XP? Neither? A Pentium 4? No wonder you need all that cooling.
It’s hard to define between the computer and the kludge.
roll of duct tape: $3
miscellaneous sized fans: $8
rare computer stickers: $2
the new transformer for transformers 3: PRICELESS!
Megatron isn’t THAT desperate for soldiers.
This guy just discovered “Pimp my ride”. Unfortunately he doesn’t own a car so his computer had to pay the penalty.
Looks like the perfect opportunity to upgrade to a Mac!
You, sir, do not understand the true kludger and his kludges. Replacing a thoroughly kludgified device? Out of the question.
Although, in some respects a Mac can still be seen as a box to drill holes in, slap fans on and adorn with gaffer tape, so there could be appeal in getting a Mac. But only when the kludger is running out of kludge-attachment points on the current computer.
Yes, I see your point. I guess it is more satisfying to kludge a machine that actually needs to be kludged
Why not upgrade to a PC instead? They are better after all…
I think WALL-E up top speaks for all of us.
still won’t run Crysis…
Unless you have an old Cray super computer, you might as well forget about Crysis.
true, even on the lowest settings its a big stretch
couldn’t put up with it after the first level… if i even got that far
I know this may seem redundant… but can you say “tweeker”?
Nothing wrong with that.
I’ve seen worse.
Sometimes dusting your components is a better fix than adding one more fan.
Why do people that think they know how to mod computers always have disgusting carpets like in this photo? Something tells me this PC Kludger smokes a loooooooot of weed.
Are all the fans blowing or sucking???
Did the design engineer happen to think that some fans need to suck and others blow.
If they all blow it may expand the case. If they all suck it may collapse the case.
Vacuum does not cool.
Air pressure is not what cools.
Air FLOW is what cools.
Another use for “Duct Tape”.
a) simple fans can not create sufficient pressure differential to cause any discernible deformation of an otherwise airtight computer case, whether sucking or blowing. Not even with humongous fans and the thinnest sheet metal imaginable (the famous Chinese Rice Paper sheetmetal covers).
b) computer cases aren’t airtight by a long shot anyway.
c) to decrease any possible airtightness some more, this kludger has drilled holes along the lower edge of the side panel.
Will you just look at that neat rat’s nest on the floor.
With what looks like a wifi antenna poking out. Clearly it was more important to have this computer’s guardian angel in a prominent position than to have the wireless signal unobstructed.
This is how I imagine the TIFI “office”.
Johnny 5 will keep you alive — no disassembe!!
no disassembly – there, I fixed it
found the most expensive part in this kludge that dvd drive has to be worth 25 $ at least
they got that color from putting vista on it
vista kills all!!!
well you need that many fan when you have an AMD processor
No shit. I have an AMD Turion X2 64 in my LAPTOP & that little bastard has clocked 130 degrees twice! Toshiba, what the hell were you thinking?
Damnit John! I said Intel INTEL!!!
dang! Even the VEB Robotron Computers (Quality made in GDR – without Bill Gates!!) look better, although they’ve always had a lack of material. This is just so wrong – a computer which needs a paint-job and at least three cans of RustEZE. Why is this scrapheap still running?? (btw I wouldn’t wonder if some ICs were replaced with vacuum tubes :-O )
“Why is this scrapheap still running?” So you’re in agreement this.. thing should be taken out with extreme prejudice? *grabs shotgun*
… which will unambiguously resolve the eternal question: “is it hardware or software that’s causing this scrapheap to crash?”
proof: kludging does never need any INTELligence… :-/
ACK! *shudders violently* It’s dead, Jim, give it up before you make a zombie…
No no, it’s not dead, it’s, it’s restin’!
Resting? I don’t think so. Either it’s dead or it’s undead.
…now that I think about it, the second option is more likely. Here comes the Zombie Computer Apocalypse…
(or would that be the Duct Tape Borg Brigade…?)
Hey I have that same scanner that’s under the table.
did anyone else notice the mudkipz on top to the right of Wall-E? OMFG
no i dont think anyone noticed. if you hadnt added YET ANOTHER comment pointing that out we would have never known.
read the damn comments before you post.
Looks like the type of computer Largo from the webcomic Megatokyo would build in real life.
http://megatokyo.com/strip/70
Yes! All it’s missing is his L337 by L4RGO sticker!
Do I have to wear a bra on my head to use this computer?
“Weird science” for the win!
Blaziken: This thing might blow! We have no choice but to jump!
Wall-e: I don’t know…..that looks kinda far….
Mudkip: Gulp…
Jeeez! NOW they tell me that the sides of the box come off!
This is why you measure twice cut once. And why you write down what your step by step process is so you don’t use a hole saw that is too big!
I will admit though that the 2 crescent wrenches on the side for support was an interesting idea.
Now I can see what duct-ed fan means…
I love the role of duct tape right next to it. never know when you’ll need more.
You should get an io drive.
I do not see anything wrong with it. The air circles perfectly. Wall-e on top is awesome btw
Lol, it is fake. You can see trough fans that there is still white computer and not a hole behind them…
Somewhere in an underground ice cave in Sweden, The Pirate Bay’s server is hard at work.
There’s more hot air coming out of this computer than the U.S. Senate.
I personally love all the cables on the floor.
I bet it plays Crysis at like 300fps.
that thing looks like its about to lift off.
It’s Fan-tastic! lol
So I here yoo liek mudkipz.
is that a blaziken?
That computer is famous! It has tons of fans!
Well, it’s better than Vista.
50 dollars worth of tape and fans to avoid buying a 50 dollar empty tower.
Wall-E’s programming seems to have advanced from forming meer junk cubes to kludging together computers. Amazing what a hundred years or so can do.
This is Fan-tastic! I can run Halo 3 ODST and my graphics card runs at about 9 degrees Celsius!
So, I herd u liek kludgez.
The sides actually swivel out to make wings and it takes off like a harrier jet.
Frankenstein is a real pokemon/wall-e fan