Bodgy nerd-gasm
Just yesterday conky showed me that the temp on my graphics card (a GeForce 9400 GT with a gig of ddr2) on my work/uni (main) box reached 226°C after watching several eps. of The Inbetweeners (teenage boy-humor-snarf!). As you might imagine I was a little concerned.
Closer inspection (opening the box) revealed the gpu fan was munged. I searched in my 'repository' for a similar sized fan with the correct plug into the card to no avail. The closest I had that would fit were some old 386 cpu fans with a bigger 3 pin config. Off I go to the nearest geek store with said fucked fan.

I got told that they had no fans of that size and hence onto a new card (with the missus permission). $89 later I had a Radeon HD5570 which was popping my ATI cherry. Of course I didn't think about the fact that I have 2 monitors,1 with a vga plug and 1 with a dvi plug when I bought it did I. Back to the geek shop and $10 worth of adapter which I *did* verify was the correct male2female only to get home & find he was wrong!
Even if you're a poof, 2 male dvi connectors won't work.
I popped the old 386 cpu fan in place on my "cooked" card's heatsink and plugged the fan into a spare mobo 'chassis fan' jumper. As you can see now
it's all good.
Bodging a gpu fan = sweet.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 14 Mar 2011, 6:15, 1 reply)

I once
made my own DVI adapter by cutting the end off an old VGA cable, soldering the pins from an old serial cable on the ends, poking them into the DVI output, and sticking a big blob of araldite over them to hold them in place.

This was in the days and in a country where DVI was pretty much non-existant.

It worked pretty well for about 2 years. Took fucking ages to find the pinouts in the first place though.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 17:08, closed)