Guide Ha Ha EVGA mine lights up as well

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  1. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Well EVGA recently brought out their new SLI bridges myself and a few others all agreed they was so much better than the standard bridge as you can see in the pic below

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    Even though the EVGA bit only would light up for GTX 770 upwards :grr: but still an improvement on the standard one's.

    Now got me thinking
     
  2. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    So I thought WHY I want mine to light up too I mean how hard can it be must have some led's in there I thought, So I bought another one Damn import and handling charges :grr: just in case I rendered it useless

    Anyway I started by looking on the back and noticed 4 screws so with my trusty scissors I unscrewed them lol

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  3. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Right so with the cover removed I saw that the LED's was part of the PCB not much chance of getting them to work then, I need a simpler way.

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  4. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    So having a look at the inside of the cover there was a black plastic piece either side of the clear Perspex piece with the EVGA, I removed the lower piece and put a groove in the bottom of the cover with the old dremmel.

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  5. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Next thing was to sort through my bits of junk and found a short LED strip so I soldered some cable on sleeved it and attached the other end to a molex connector

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  6. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Next was to fix it in the cover I used mastic to stick it with ( no pic's of that ) worked great

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  7. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    I let the mastic go off and put it back together and plugged it on to my test PSU and.........

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    So you don't have to buy new GPU's to get it lit up :D
     
  8. Big Elf

    Big Elf Oh no! Not another f----ing elf!

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    That's a sweet mod.
     
  9. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    Very nice Teel!
     
  10. Kovoet

    Kovoet What's a Dremel?

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    Now all you need is the glitter ball
     
  11. YEHBABY

    YEHBABY RIP Tel

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    Nice work :thumb:
     
  12. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    And the final picture with it in the rig :D

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  13. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Both of mine glitter :p
     
  14. Carrie

    Carrie Multimodder

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    :hehe: looks good Tel, well done!
     
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    Nice Teelzebub well done m8
     
  17. GeorgeK

    GeorgeK Swinging the banhammer Super Moderator

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    Makes me tempted to buy another when they're back on EVGA (to avoid customs :lol:) and give this a go myself :D

    +rep!
     
  18. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Yea give it a go mate

    And thanks people, for a few hours work I really like it

    Think I'll post it on the EVGA forum lol
     
  19. bawjaws

    bawjaws Multimodder

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    That's some nice work :)
     
  20. jinq-sea

    jinq-sea 'write that down in your copy book' Super Moderator

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    Yeesssss. Love it. Nice work, Tel!
     

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