I feel bad for this guy. He just tried making a video about an idea he had and gets ripped to shreds in the comments about it. 1) Get over it, it's just a case. It may be expensive and there could have been more options, but just get over yourself. 2) he's not high or drunk. For some reason, people don't understand what the fuck an accent is. this is actually quite sad, and to you, unlucky RUclipsr who made this video, good job on handling comments, man. Great video btw :D
Im super stoned, Im also generally high in most of the videos i upload. My old laptops keysboard is broken and the battery sucks, but it has NVIDIA 780 so this is what id rather have.
I found the project neat, but it's like halfway there at best. I'd say that it just needed to be more... finalised than that. Like, I see that he had to drill the top of the case, but actually he could switch the end of the power supply for an L-shaped supply. Author says that he never soldered and will consider stuff in the future... Maybe it's just me, but if that video was called "part 1" or "early prototype" it would be less of an issue, as you expect a more of a, whaddya callit, complete project. Full experience.
An interesting idea indeed! Here are some ideas/points: 1) Considering you wanted a low power option, the 500W PSU is really overkill. Workout how many hard drives you want to use, find out their power requirements and get an old low power PSU to match this requirement. There are plenty out there in old PCs which are rotting in people's homes or the junk yard. 2) Why not use the case power switch to activate the PSU? Easy enough if it's push on and push again for off. Just pop the 2 wires in the place of the green and black wires of the PSU (mainboard) power connector. 3) While on the topic of cases, why use an expensive case? With the amount of hacking, why not use a cheap or old one instead? You can still add some more fans yourself at a fraction of the cost. Fans can be sourced from other old PCs etc. 4) Speaking of power, are you using the laptop's power supply? I think you might be...If the plug is a simple 2 connector plug, i.e. +ve & -ve, and the Voltage is 12V, you could use the case PSU to power both laptop and HDDs. But this is most likely not the case. Maybe a cheap DC to DC converter could do the trick here? There's plenty on the market... 5) It may pay you to make some form of heat sink for the graphics chips so they don't run so hot. A simple bar of, say, aluminium, steel or copper clamped onto the chips would make a huge difference. Don't forget the thermal compound! 6) Depending on where the ports are located, you could rotate the board accordingly for easier access. You could also use extension cables to extend the ports from the laptop to the case so you can simply plug in the real cables from the back (or front for USB). I know u can't solder, but maybe this could be a good opportunity for you to learn. that way you could use the case's ports and solder the cables to the extension cables. Hope this little list gives you some inspiration to keep going! Good Luck and make sure you post the results! :)
Exactly what I was looking for. Have a dell g3, the case is so fragile. Made very cheap. The screen is broken for the second time, didn’t fell or anything. This will get it back to life
That won’t work as the PCIe slot for the WiFi card isn’t rated for 75w which is what you need to drive the GPU. Not to mention it has limited PCIe Lanes available. Usually the WiFi slot is rated a x1, that’s not enough for a GPU. You would be better off using a USB external graphics solution and I don’t recommend that either.
this was a great idea, I took my sony vaio with i5 @ 3.0 that was showing overheating issues, I tried thermal paste and fan speed. but putting it into a desktop with much more ventilation brought my temps down from 140f to a stable steady 77f under load. I fashioned a heatseek over the processor drilled some holes to attach it, then put a heatseek over the Gpu as well, working better then ever,
Everyone is an armchair expert obviously.... This dude did it cause he wanted to. Projects are fun. sure he could have got a low power server or whatever.. but fuck it why not challenge your self for once.
I’ve just done it. I need to tweak some stuff,it’s really jank. Only do it if you are comfortable with damage, and if you know what doing. Actually know what ur doing don’t pretend. Good luck
u could solder the usb header from ths case onto some male usb connectors. allso, its easy to power the laptop with a normal psu. just cut off the 24 pin connector, and permanantly short the pwr controll pins, tap off the appropriate power wires, and solder them to the laptop plug. btw, NEVER solder ANYTHING directly to ur motherboar, solder it to a plug, or a pcb that plugs into the motherboard, like the one with the pwr button. allso, u could daisy chain the case fans off of the cpu cooler, so they are only on when the system needs them. allso, u should get a usb to ide converter and a dvdrom drive.
I did this with my old laptop into a Mac shell. Now i have an 'Apple Mac' I installed OS X El Capitan on it and was amazed at how well it ran and looked in the Mac shell.
I love how thorough and to the point you were. Don't listen to the negative comments. If anything this would be a great project. For me personally I have very basic knowledge on stuff like this. I would dread ruining something if I were to take it apart. But this is interesting :) I like it 👍🙂
If you were running green to black through a wire on your power supply, without a load, it may damage your power supply over time. Best bet would be to add an LED array to take the load off.
This an inspiration, thank you ! I repurposed an outdated Toshiba laptop into an Ubuntu server.. I also possess an old ATX thermaltake case. Now I know what to do to merge them…
@@chris1549 If theres a way to access the bios flash, it could be done. And there are ways to beef up the cooling aside from a desktop cooler. it would be too heavy for a thin laptop pcb anyway, would warp over time. A better solution is to expand the fin stack, both on the pipe, and on the mount, and get extra air moving on it. Wouldn't do a huge oc, but good enough.
@@curvingfyre6810 laptop bios does not have overclocking options, they rarely have any options at all except changing boot order. To get a custom bios on there to allow it, someone would have to make one specifically tailored to your hardware, which do not exist for any laptop ever.
Just solder a really long wire into the WiFi adapter, don't bother with buying anything. Also soldering isn't too hard, the mighty ohm's website made a great tutorial on this for people of any age, so the power switch should be straight forward. Nice idea too
he wanted to do this for fun. in my opinion, this guy is a genius because not only did he think of the idea, he actually went and done it. Good on him for doing this because i enjoyed this video. keep this up man, enjoyed alot :D
Before finding this video I did the exact same thing. Old Compaq Presario cq56 with broken display into an old pc case that I gutted. The purpose was to help cool the laptop, which didn't have a heat issue before but I am installing a quad core cpu which will produce significantly more heat. I solved my wifi issue by taking apart the display and removing the 2 wifi antennae wires and running them to the outside of the pc case, giving me even more wifi range than there was before being transformed from a laptop. I had a couple more issues, the old pc had a big fan in it but there were no ports on the laptop motherboard that were available and none that were compatible either way because the case is 5 years older than the laptop. I eventually soldered the fan wires on to a usb connector which works fine but does seem like a waste of one of my 3 usb ports. Anyways, my only remaining issue is the power button, which look identical to yours. It is becoming a pain having to reach in the computer and push the tiny button to power on. I was wondering if you figured out how to wire an extension since you made this video? Would be a great help. Great video, by the way.
I have done this with an old Acer laptop that has a broken screen and I've used an old desktop pc Packard bell that wouldn't no longer run I still need to find the best way to mount the laptops motherboard into the case and mount some fans into the case as well it's good to do if you have an old laptop with a broken screen
Nice Vid. I will be attempting something similar as I have a screenless i7 laptop, the screen price is ridiculous but I have loads of pc bits about, You have given me lots of info. Thanks
Its always cool to see people be creative! That said your cooling issue was likely from dust buildup and the desperate need for some thermal compound ($15 or less) afterwards it would have probably run cooler than ever., and a new battery wouldn't of hurt.
Nice project! I am thinking on doing something similar. I have an HP laptop which overheats like hell (it has a great performance, though). I am not planning to use the display, but I wonder if the VGA is always "on". For instance, if I plan to reinstall the OS, will I have video? Did you have to do anything special to have video?
Check out the channel Cat and Andrew, he has quite a few videos doing this in various configurations. DIY Perks also has a video detailing such a process
The meta is to keep as much of the laptop as possible. You can mount the power brick in the case, solving a lot of the locational issues for the power out. The io shield might be an unsolvable issue, but extension cable+rear expansion slot combos are super cheap to get the IOs to the rear. As for fan power, purchasing USB fans, and a cheap USB power only splitter is reliable as hell, and at 5 volts per fan should be a good balance of fast and quiet. There are also converters that will let you turn the laptop display into hdmi, if you absolutely need it, but you probably won't cause: Last step is sacrifice a usb 3 port for usb wifi, and run the mpcie through a converter to a pcie 4x. That's enough for most graphics cards (that are a reasonable price atm lol) which can handle your display needs pretty much losslessly. Mounting the riser and card in the case is as easy as screwing in the bracket, marking the screws, which basically all of them will have, and doing a bit more drilling. I'm surprised by how much extra oomph you got from the base cooler, honestly I'd have beefed it up a bit. Great start as a flip build. Room for improvement, but can't argue with a workable server. if I had to recommend a storage expansion solution, with only one pcie slot and one spare sata, go for a usb 3 hub and spinning drive. Cost to storage is great, and the USB 3 won't bottleneck very hard or at all on a spinner. honestly though, who cares about which case you use lol, paying premium for cases is an absolute scam, ignore the haters
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I believe they run on different voltages. Laptop coolers run on 5v, while desktop coolers run on 12V, which the laptop motherboard can't provide. Not to mention that there are no adequate headers in the motherboard to connect the cooler to.
thanks for the video my old MSI gaming laptop power supply broke and I'm about to buy a case to try and to turn it into a desktop and this helped so much
I mounted mine perpendicular to where yours is. giving access to all the ports on back and power button/disk drive is in front. mine has a side fan though but there is more than enough space to have your fan blow down and still get the hot air out. ran the wire for WiFi around top of my case.
You could have just hooked up your normal power supply to the laptop or you can now get a pico power supply. Also you might be able to use an eGPU enclosure for the laptop to get a graphics card in there although you probably want the atx PSU anyways to get that running since it requires external power.
This is awesome. I can see you could have used some help prettying up the hardware inside the case. One simple tip is to use bolts with nylon lock nuts instead of what looked like wood screws, and to put a quarter or half inch spacer between the motherboard and the case. Also, I would love to see an attempt to put a desktop graphics card inside this build. That would be awesome!
I believe you could have tried making a custom pc case or just pick a smaller case. Using the ports on the fractal design r4 case would have been a good idea.
im struggeling to see how you powered the thing? im interested not because i want to replicate the build but because i wanna build a laptop from ground up using a laptop motherboard from ebay.
Most desktops can blow a laptop out of the water or last longer trying. The problem with most laptops is because of their size the cooling is often mediocre. Things like email and web browsing usually won't cause a thermal problem but a lot of laptops will sound and feel like a hot hair dryer as soon as any more processing load is put on it. I am sure it has happened to us all at least once, we do something that pushes it a little bit harder than normal and suddenly it sounds like the neighbor is running a leaf blower.
honestly i liked what you did, some laptops have an impressionnant processor and it have to be rescued, in my case i use like 50.00 dollars on material for change the case and the IDE HHD in to a SATA SSD. It`s not much money but you give an equip more life time and avoid to genered polluting waste.
nice! but a couple of things to note, readyboost is not the same as RAM, it is significantly slower than it. If all your doing is running a Minecraft server, I would suggest using Linux instead of Windows as it uses far less system resources and you could supplement the RAM with a couple gigabytes of the ssd dedicated to a swap partition (basically, when the RAM is full, it overflows into said partition) which would be way faster than any USB solution.
I did the same thing with my laptop but i saved some money to buy very good gaming components and i putted them into my pc (laptop in desktop case) and now i cam run Games like gta 5 and call of duty black ops 2 around 50 to 120 fps no lag and on medium settings
Wow I think I'm gonna do this, I have a discarded M1330 that got thrown through a wall and lost its entire housing, I was able to install an LCD from an old D620 though...
WillShackAttack He did this, because his old laptop was overheating, do to the size, or something. this way he can also add uprades, with the extra room
This is actually a great idea, the way this could be made better would be using an ITX case similar to the MainGear cases, these have their I/O sheild at the top of the case which is pretty neat. Another thing you could do to make the power supply power on with the USB power is using a transistor that is activated by the USB, this could then trigger a Relay on the ATX power cord.
The Antenne connecors are standardized. They are the very same as on my wifi card and my 15 year old non smartphone lol. Back then i attached a router antenna to my phone and expected to have better connection lmao
There are other advantages the case brings that he hasn't fully picked up on. The wifi card can be replaced by a usb 3 card, and the old slot can be converted into a 4x pcie lane, which can be used to mount a decent graphics card. Then the built in GPU can be used for video encoding without straining the system. As a file server, you can also run spinning drives pretty well off a usb 3 converter. Not very likely to bottleneck with spinners, especially the larger capacity ones.
OR you could use a pciex16 to ec adapter and install a modern gpu, as well as use the back of the laptop case on the back of the mb, and use large feet with some vhb. Just saying.
Well, as I see it, your project in theory seems just right, however in practice it is on the verge of success (at least it boots). However I have another idea. How about converting it in an all-in one pc?
im thinking of doing this with my acer nitro 5 and i also have an old pc so im trying to combine those. while i still wanna use the pcs parts for the build any tips?
Small laptop size to ATX tower size, GREAT JOB ! Shouldn't you customize a case for you laptop? Just put a laptop motherboard into a big case, what is the point of that?
Well I see this is old and maybe you don't even have the computer anymore but I have a question (sorry if I missed it): how do you turn it on? Did you adapted/modified the power "button" in the laptop's board so the case's power button could be used or you made another kind of modification? The appearance is great...very clean. Congrats
Don't forget you can always use the PSU to run a full size graphics card as the laptop's GPU. www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/how-to-make-an-external-laptop-graphics-adaptor-915616
A for effort for sure. Its like I think it can be better or I know it can, but I'm not sure that I could do better without sodering.. but I did watch this because I'm about to do the same thing with my laptop with a broken screen. I'm hoping to find answers, this video did not have it. But when screen is taken out of the case and disconnected the computer just beeps it knows it's not connected even if I connect a tv thru hdmi. I'm trying to figure out if that's a commen issue and how to get past it.
Great video. Watched it for inspiration on some projects regarding desktop and laptop parts I have lying around. Just one consideration.. Why the PSU at all? If you still have the power adaptor from your laptop, that's all you really needed (granted, you would lose the ability to turn on the exhaust fans, but the bigger case already gives you way more airflow than that motherboard was supposed to have.
@@technologetic if you were using full size (3.5 inch) HDDs, I'd understand, but if you use laptop size storage (2.5inch) you would not need any additional power source, since you'd basically be taking the guts out of the laptop case and into a larger form-factor
I am wondering, what would you suggest about making a desktop with new bought laptop components? I would do that mostly to reduce the bulk that a desktop brings. And those ultra thin ones are quite expensive. Than I would be happy with laptop components in a much smaller case. I am used to use laptops even for gaming, so I wouldn't miss performance since it probably would work better than many laptops I have due to better cooling possibilities. But than I run in the problems of deciding what parts are needed. Motherboard for sure, but what things do I need more than...
what kind of PC case could you purchase that is that small? Also, it is a lot harder to source laptop motherboards and things than their desktop equivalents
My man you can shave down that power connector until you get a set of wires that will fit. Just go slow and be careful with a razor blade. Also there are 90 degree adapters.
I feel bad for this guy. He just tried making a video about an idea he had and gets ripped to shreds in the comments about it.
1) Get over it, it's just a case. It may be expensive and there could have been more options, but just get over yourself.
2) he's not high or drunk. For some reason, people don't understand what the fuck an accent is.
this is actually quite sad, and to you, unlucky RUclipsr who made this video, good job on handling comments, man. Great video btw :D
MoonlightWhite I agree
Im super stoned, Im also generally high in most of the videos i upload. My old laptops keysboard is broken and the battery sucks, but it has NVIDIA 780 so this is what id rather have.
I found the project neat, but it's like halfway there at best. I'd say that it just needed to be more... finalised than that. Like, I see that he had to drill the top of the case, but actually he could switch the end of the power supply for an L-shaped supply. Author says that he never soldered and will consider stuff in the future... Maybe it's just me, but if that video was called "part 1" or "early prototype" it would be less of an issue, as you expect a more of a, whaddya callit, complete project. Full experience.
better than anything else, hes still getting views on it. Awesome video and it shows
This is awesome. Lost it at "Wifi range is about, 3 inches"
An interesting idea indeed! Here are some ideas/points:
1) Considering you wanted a low power option, the 500W PSU is really overkill. Workout how many hard drives you want to use, find out their power requirements and get an old low power PSU to match this requirement. There are plenty out there in old PCs which are rotting in people's homes or the junk yard.
2) Why not use the case power switch to activate the PSU? Easy enough if it's push on and push again for off. Just pop the 2 wires in the place of the green and black wires of the PSU (mainboard) power connector.
3) While on the topic of cases, why use an expensive case? With the amount of hacking, why not use a cheap or old one instead? You can still add some more fans yourself at a fraction of the cost. Fans can be sourced from other old PCs etc.
4) Speaking of power, are you using the laptop's power supply? I think you might be...If the plug is a simple 2 connector plug, i.e. +ve & -ve, and the Voltage is 12V, you could use the case PSU to power both laptop and HDDs. But this is most likely not the case. Maybe a cheap DC to DC converter could do the trick here? There's plenty on the market...
5) It may pay you to make some form of heat sink for the graphics chips so they don't run so hot. A simple bar of, say, aluminium, steel or copper clamped onto the chips would make a huge difference. Don't forget the thermal compound!
6) Depending on where the ports are located, you could rotate the board accordingly for easier access. You could also use extension cables to extend the ports from the laptop to the case so you can simply plug in the real cables from the back (or front for USB). I know u can't solder, but maybe this could be a good opportunity for you to learn. that way you could use the case's ports and solder the cables to the extension cables.
Hope this little list gives you some inspiration to keep going!
Good Luck and make sure you post the results! :)
Very interesting idea. I'm curious to know if this would work in a mini itx case.
I’m literally going to do this from a nitro 5
@@tabout7920 I want to try it how did it go if you aldready did it?
I don't care what everyone thinks, you did a great job keep up the good work. You have inspired me to do this with one of my older laptops.
yeh, i can now sat i got a pc TvT i love this guy
BLT Muncher how did it work out?
i like what you say
Exactly what I was looking for. Have a dell g3, the case is so fragile. Made very cheap. The screen is broken for the second time, didn’t fell or anything. This will get it back to life
You can remove the wifi card and use the mini pcie slot to use an adapter to use a desktop gpu.
Is there such an adaptor ? o.0
+TheBigBoss yes,but they don't work with alot of models. possibly usable on more with case mods.
@ItsCoco he said mini pcie which certainly is present on this motherboard
That won’t work as the PCIe slot for the WiFi card isn’t rated for 75w which is what you need to drive the GPU. Not to mention it has limited PCIe Lanes available. Usually the WiFi slot is rated a x1, that’s not enough for a GPU. You would be better off using a USB external graphics solution and I don’t recommend that either.
You could potentially stack multiple laptops in the case this way. Also easier to cool the laptop via alternative methods and avoid condensation.
the next challenge to transfer desktop PC into the body of the laptop
GROSS, why buy a laptop when you know all it ever does is sit on your desk.
HE'S TOO STRONG TO BE LEFT ALIVE
@@developer-juice-Khailenno yeah your right. You
@@developer-juice-Khailenno why buy a desktop when it sits under or above your desk
this was a great idea, I took my sony vaio with i5 @ 3.0 that was showing overheating issues, I tried thermal paste and fan speed. but putting it into a desktop with much more ventilation brought my temps down from 140f to a stable steady 77f under load. I fashioned a heatseek over the processor drilled some holes to attach it, then put a heatseek over the Gpu as well, working better then ever,
Everyone is an armchair expert obviously....
This dude did it cause he wanted to. Projects are fun. sure he could have got a low power server or whatever.. but fuck it why not challenge your self for once.
skylinevspec000 .
Respect to you mate it’s good that you try and take on new projects! Keep up the good work.
mad respect to any one who trys to do this
I’ve just done it. I need to tweak some stuff,it’s really jank. Only do it if you are comfortable with damage, and if you know what doing. Actually know what ur doing don’t pretend. Good luck
This is actually a great idea there is only like 2 videos about it in RUclips. Good job m8
u could solder the usb header from ths case onto some male usb connectors. allso, its easy to power the laptop with a normal psu. just cut off the 24 pin connector, and permanantly short the pwr controll pins, tap off the appropriate power wires, and solder them to the laptop plug. btw, NEVER solder ANYTHING directly to ur motherboar, solder it to a plug, or a pcb that plugs into the motherboard, like the one with the pwr button. allso, u could daisy chain the case fans off of the cpu cooler, so they are only on when the system needs them. allso, u should get a usb to ide converter and a dvdrom drive.
Good job.
by the way,
This is what apple did and came out with iMAC systems.
MsMeteorologist No (ik I’m late
@@Eternal-dd8jq yes (ik im late too)
@@sharulaiman7484 agree
2:53 That drilling technique. Hahah! Son, don't drill ANYTHING EVER AGAIN
so true
it works
I did this with my old laptop into a Mac shell. Now i have an 'Apple Mac' I installed OS X El Capitan on it and was amazed at how well it ran and looked in the Mac shell.
I love how thorough and to the point you were. Don't listen to the negative comments. If anything this would be a great project. For me personally I have very basic knowledge on stuff like this. I would dread ruining something if I were to take it apart. But this is interesting :) I like it 👍🙂
If you were running green to black through a wire on your power supply, without a load, it may damage your power supply over time. Best bet would be to add an LED array to take the load off.
This an inspiration, thank you ! I repurposed an outdated Toshiba laptop into an Ubuntu server.. I also possess an old ATX thermaltake case. Now I know what to do to merge them…
Maybe you could replace the stock heatsink and fan with a desktop heatsink and fan, then overclock it.
Right!
It's a laptop no you can't... No standard cooler mount and over clocking is not enabled on laptops
@@chris1549 If theres a way to access the bios flash, it could be done. And there are ways to beef up the cooling aside from a desktop cooler. it would be too heavy for a thin laptop pcb anyway, would warp over time. A better solution is to expand the fin stack, both on the pipe, and on the mount, and get extra air moving on it. Wouldn't do a huge oc, but good enough.
@@curvingfyre6810 laptop bios does not have overclocking options, they rarely have any options at all except changing boot order. To get a custom bios on there to allow it, someone would have to make one specifically tailored to your hardware, which do not exist for any laptop ever.
Just throw a laptop into a desktop case
+Kirigaya Kazuto It will be so much faster when you throw it into a case lol
Salty
That would not solve his major problem and reason for doing it, overheating when running hard.
koseiH I agree we should yeet it
Just solder a really long wire into the WiFi adapter, don't bother with buying anything. Also soldering isn't too hard, the mighty ohm's website made a great tutorial on this for people of any age, so the power switch should be straight forward. Nice idea too
he wanted to do this for fun. in my opinion, this guy is a genius because not only did he think of the idea, he actually went and done it. Good on him for doing this because i enjoyed this video. keep this up man, enjoyed alot :D
Before finding this video I did the exact same thing. Old Compaq Presario cq56 with broken display into an old pc case that I gutted. The purpose was to help cool the laptop, which didn't have a heat issue before but I am installing a quad core cpu which will produce significantly more heat. I solved my wifi issue by taking apart the display and removing the 2 wifi antennae wires and running them to the outside of the pc case, giving me even more wifi range than there was before being transformed from a laptop. I had a couple more issues, the old pc had a big fan in it but there were no ports on the laptop motherboard that were available and none that were compatible either way because the case is 5 years older than the laptop. I eventually soldered the fan wires on to a usb connector which works fine but does seem like a waste of one of my 3 usb ports. Anyways, my only remaining issue is the power button, which look identical to yours. It is becoming a pain having to reach in the computer and push the tiny button to power on. I was wondering if you figured out how to wire an extension since you made this video? Would be a great help. Great video, by the way.
u can prob buy the external like keyboard with one button and u solder it onto the motherboard so when u click it it will power on the pc
I have done this with an old Acer laptop that has a broken screen and I've used an old desktop pc Packard bell that wouldn't no longer run I still need to find the best way to mount the laptops motherboard into the case and mount some fans into the case as well it's good to do if you have an old laptop with a broken screen
Any update on that project?
U could also get one of the GDC EXP kits to use an external GPU for better performance.
Nice Vid. I will be attempting something similar as I have a screenless i7 laptop, the screen price is ridiculous but I have loads of pc bits about, You have given me lots of info. Thanks
Its always cool to see people be creative! That said your cooling issue was likely from dust buildup and the desperate need for some thermal compound ($15 or less) afterwards it would have probably run cooler than ever., and a new battery wouldn't of hurt.
I got this idea and this is one of the only videos on RUclips about it, thanks so much man! Great vid!
Nice project! I am thinking on doing something similar. I have an HP laptop which overheats like hell (it has a great performance, though). I am not planning to use the display, but I wonder if the VGA is always "on". For instance, if I plan to reinstall the OS, will I have video? Did you have to do anything special to have video?
Thank you so much! I’m gonna transfer my Lenovo all-in-one 510s with an expensively broken screen into a desktop
Chassis/case.
Or just buy new screen xD
Check out the channel Cat and Andrew, he has quite a few videos doing this in various configurations. DIY Perks also has a video detailing such a process
The meta is to keep as much of the laptop as possible. You can mount the power brick in the case, solving a lot of the locational issues for the power out. The io shield might be an unsolvable issue, but extension cable+rear expansion slot combos are super cheap to get the IOs to the rear. As for fan power, purchasing USB fans, and a cheap USB power only splitter is reliable as hell, and at 5 volts per fan should be a good balance of fast and quiet. There are also converters that will let you turn the laptop display into hdmi, if you absolutely need it, but you probably won't cause: Last step is sacrifice a usb 3 port for usb wifi, and run the mpcie through a converter to a pcie 4x. That's enough for most graphics cards (that are a reasonable price atm lol) which can handle your display needs pretty much losslessly. Mounting the riser and card in the case is as easy as screwing in the bracket, marking the screws, which basically all of them will have, and doing a bit more drilling. I'm surprised by how much extra oomph you got from the base cooler, honestly I'd have beefed it up a bit.
Great start as a flip build. Room for improvement, but can't argue with a workable server. if I had to recommend a storage expansion solution, with only one pcie slot and one spare sata, go for a usb 3 hub and spinning drive. Cost to storage is great, and the USB 3 won't bottleneck very hard or at all on a spinner. honestly though, who cares about which case you use lol, paying premium for cases is an absolute scam, ignore the haters
How to make any laptop a desktop
Step 1:take laptop off lap
Step 2:place on desk
Boom
THIS! and with ps4. I really hope you can make one!
this wasnt very practical however this seems like it was a great project
Don't think I've ever seen this many salty commenters. It's just a case guys, relax.
True, they need to chill out. It's a fucking computer case and they flipping out. Name calling and shit
+Technologetic JUST A CASE? Man, that case cost in my country 200 US$... About R$700,00. A minimum salary is about R$898,00... LOL!
well maybe you should work harder to get a better salary :D
Everyone here work harder. I have 2 jobs, but the problem is the highest import taxes and various other taxes. The total taxes is the price + 70 per cent of taxes. This tax only 20 or 30 per cent return to people, the rest is missed in corrupt govern hands.
hmmm it was really a joke but thanks, I learned a lot
Alright, Laptop to desktop is easy. The thing you need to do is a desktop to laptop. :/
You can't because desktop motherboards take up all the panel basically and the power buttons are seller ate and stuff
+Shufflebot47-Gaming Giant laptop case. EZEZ FIX M8
that would be bulky as hell
That's how it all started haha :)
Why didn't you try to change the laptop cooler in to an desktop cooler
I believe they run on different voltages. Laptop coolers run on 5v, while desktop coolers run on 12V, which the laptop motherboard can't provide. Not to mention that there are no adequate headers in the motherboard to connect the cooler to.
thanks for the video my old MSI gaming laptop power supply broke and I'm about to buy a case to try and to turn it into a desktop and this helped so much
I'm thinking about putting a nitro 5 in a case. Thanks for this video
I mounted mine perpendicular to where yours is. giving access to all the ports on back and power button/disk drive is in front. mine has a side fan though but there is more than enough space to have your fan blow down and still get the hot air out. ran the wire for WiFi around top of my case.
You could have just hooked up your normal power supply to the laptop or you can now get a pico power supply. Also you might be able to use an eGPU enclosure for the laptop to get a graphics card in there although you probably want the atx PSU anyways to get that running since it requires external power.
Reading the comments on this video makes me realize that i have to do something fun with my fractal design case.
Nice idea. I liked it.
If you still have this, have you tried using the mini-pcie to PCI-E X16 thing where you can put a full GPU in there?
In the bios you can go to power and set it so it will turn on when it gets power automatically
This is awesome. I can see you could have used some help prettying up the hardware inside the case. One simple tip is to use bolts with nylon lock nuts instead of what looked like wood screws, and to put a quarter or half inch spacer between the motherboard and the case. Also, I would love to see an attempt to put a desktop graphics card inside this build. That would be awesome!
I believe you could have tried making a custom pc case or just pick a smaller case. Using the ports on the fractal design r4 case would have been a good idea.
Doing this now with an old dell vastro 1400, hoping to run it as a home media server or for basic web surfing.
im struggeling to see how you powered the thing? im interested not because i want to replicate the build but because i wanna build a laptop from ground up using a laptop motherboard from ebay.
Most desktops can blow a laptop out of the water or last longer trying. The problem with most laptops is because of their size the cooling is often mediocre. Things like email and web browsing usually won't cause a thermal problem but a lot of laptops will sound and feel like a hot hair dryer as soon as any more processing load is put on it. I am sure it has happened to us all at least once, we do something that pushes it a little bit harder than normal and suddenly it sounds like the neighbor is running a leaf blower.
honestly i liked what you did, some laptops have an impressionnant processor and it have to be rescued, in my case i use like 50.00 dollars on material for change the case and the IDE HHD in to a SATA SSD. It`s not much money but you give an equip more life time and avoid to genered polluting waste.
nice! but a couple of things to note, readyboost is not the same as RAM, it is significantly slower than it. If all your doing is running a Minecraft server, I would suggest using Linux instead of Windows as it uses far less system resources and you could supplement the RAM with a couple gigabytes of the ssd dedicated to a swap partition (basically, when the RAM is full, it overflows into said partition) which would be way faster than any USB solution.
I have an Acer laptop that is almost in the same shape. I'm turning it into a game system and just to let you know this video helped allot. Thank you
its best to just get a desktop for gaming
Or open up the laptop and upgrade the processor and mount a cooling system under it I recommend a I7 intel processor triple/dual core.
Chris Latham Or get a Desktop with Liquid cooling and never worry about overheating again.
mind- blown
I did the same thing with my laptop but i saved some money to buy very good gaming components and i putted them into my pc (laptop in desktop case) and now i cam run Games like gta 5 and call of duty black ops 2 around 50 to 120 fps no lag and on medium settings
+DBGaming what are some parts that you upgraded and how did you do it?
I made a foam case, and it looks and works better.
Wow I think I'm gonna do this, I have a discarded M1330 that got thrown through a wall and lost its entire housing, I was able to install an LCD from an old D620 though...
Sergiy Botsman i have a working dell latitude d620
Nice, but, you wasted a Define R4 for that... Why you don't use wood or metal pieces to build a custom case?
+Vladmir Amorim or just buy a 10 dollar case
Uh... I just hooked up a mouse, keyboard and monitor to my laptop.
WillShackAttack He did this, because his old laptop was overheating, do to the size, or something. this way he can also add uprades, with the extra room
This is actually a great idea, the way this could be made better would be using an ITX case similar to the MainGear cases, these have their I/O sheild at the top of the case which is pretty neat.
Another thing you could do to make the power supply power on with the USB power is using a transistor that is activated by the USB, this could then trigger a Relay on the ATX power cord.
Does anyone else not understand this at all but is still like... Yea I completely agree the daddy board and the mommy board should have a baby board.
You are extremely fucking stupid.
The Antenne connecors are standardized. They are the very same as on my wifi card and my 15 year old non smartphone lol. Back then i attached a router antenna to my phone and expected to have better connection lmao
Nice project but I think you could have done better with the lighting when showing off the case
This was awesome, good work :)
You could use an old hp case... (2000/2002) model, their hdd mounting can be easily removed to make more room....
I was thinking about to do it with a tiny little board model in a small DIY case.
You can also use the wifi slot to add a video card
I'm thinking about doing this soon..
meh... just get a good gaming desktop you will be all sorted
I would try to do this with multiple laptops instead of just one. It's seems like a waste of space, but I guess it's better than throwing it away
Hmm,The only benefit i see is increased cooling....BTW nice work buddywill try soon with some of friends
There are other advantages the case brings that he hasn't fully picked up on. The wifi card can be replaced by a usb 3 card, and the old slot can be converted into a 4x pcie lane, which can be used to mount a decent graphics card. Then the built in GPU can be used for video encoding without straining the system. As a file server, you can also run spinning drives pretty well off a usb 3 converter. Not very likely to bottleneck with spinners, especially the larger capacity ones.
OR you could use a pciex16 to ec adapter and install a modern gpu, as well as use the back of the laptop case on the back of the mb, and use large feet with some vhb. Just saying.
Im looking to do the same my laptop is 7 years old and runs morden titles decent lol just needs a graphics and a cpu swap
I could hear my dad yelling at you when you were drilling
next project, desktop to laptop ...
never heard of ready boost, thanks for letting me know.
You should put 2 fans at the top of the case as air intake
Well, as I see it, your project in theory seems just right, however in practice it is on the verge of success (at least it boots). However I have another idea. How about converting it in an all-in one pc?
Did you name your channel this because of the song Technologic?
im thinking of doing this with my acer nitro 5 and i also have an old pc so im trying to combine those. while i still wanna use the pcs parts for the build any tips?
Small laptop size to ATX tower size, GREAT JOB ! Shouldn't you customize a case for you laptop? Just put a laptop motherboard into a big case, what is the point of that?
Those cables look like they're under a lot of stress.
I hope you plan to put a new battery in there to use as emergency power
Quite the ambitious project,but I think it's quite doable.
Well I see this is old and maybe you don't even have the computer anymore but I have a question (sorry if I missed it): how do you turn it on?
Did you adapted/modified the power "button" in the laptop's board so the case's power button could be used or you made another kind of modification?
The appearance is great...very clean. Congrats
I know this video is old but why didnt you try changing the cooler for a desktop one? or a passive cooler so it runs silent
I kinda want to do this right now
I hooked up a TV, Keyboard and Mouse to my computer
cool, nice job
Don't forget you can always use the PSU to run a full size graphics card as the laptop's GPU. www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/how-to-make-an-external-laptop-graphics-adaptor-915616
A for effort for sure. Its like I think it can be better or I know it can, but I'm not sure that I could do better without sodering.. but I did watch this because I'm about to do the same thing with my laptop with a broken screen. I'm hoping to find answers, this video did not have it. But when screen is taken out of the case and disconnected the computer just beeps it knows it's not connected even if I connect a tv thru hdmi. I'm trying to figure out if that's a commen issue and how to get past it.
... oh yea also you know i finna run a minecraft server on this build. lmao.
Great video. Watched it for inspiration on some projects regarding desktop and laptop parts I have lying around. Just one consideration.. Why the PSU at all? If you still have the power adaptor from your laptop, that's all you really needed (granted, you would lose the ability to turn on the exhaust fans, but the bigger case already gives you way more airflow than that motherboard was supposed to have.
I think I needed it to power the HDDs as well
@@technologetic if you were using full size (3.5 inch) HDDs, I'd understand, but if you use laptop size storage (2.5inch) you would not need any additional power source, since you'd basically be taking the guts out of the laptop case and into a larger form-factor
idea is not bad,because laptop's mobo should last longer like this,if it gets cool air directly onto..
diferent story is your talking -speed dude :)
I am wondering, what would you suggest about making a desktop with new bought laptop components? I would do that mostly to reduce the bulk that a desktop brings. And those ultra thin ones are quite expensive. Than I would be happy with laptop components in a much smaller case. I am used to use laptops even for gaming, so I wouldn't miss performance since it probably would work better than many laptops I have due to better cooling possibilities. But than I run in the problems of deciding what parts are needed. Motherboard for sure, but what things do I need more than...
what kind of PC case could you purchase that is that small? Also, it is a lot harder to source laptop motherboards and things than their desktop equivalents
My man you can shave down that power connector until you get a set of wires that will fit. Just go slow and be careful with a razor blade. Also there are 90 degree adapters.
Good sir, could you please link that hard drive bay/enclosure? I want to use 5 SSDs in my PC but can't find a decent one.
ahh you just waysted a good desktop case