Outlandish case mod ideas?

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Outlandish case mod ideas?

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What is your most outlandish idea for a mod? :bomb: What would you like to do but find is impossible for you to implement on your mod? :onfire:

Maybe you want to make it look like a fire breathing, angle grinded monstrosity from robot wars or like a soft pink teddy bear from your gay brothers bedroom :baa: or maybe you can mount it on your Cousin from Brakpan's car roof cause if you place it inside the car, the beer cans rolling around might damage the MOBO...

Anyway you get the idea, whatever you can think of. Even if its just for laugh...

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Post by pesospesos »

i want to make a case out of wood (*shields himself from on coming smacks*)
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Post by skunkymunky »

this is how i'll mod mine

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Post by Tel »

What I know about modding is dangerous, but wouldn't wood be a bit of a fire risk?
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Post by skunkymunky »

on top of it been a bad heat dispeser, u'll probably cook all ur components
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Post by Samaya »

Well at least you'd have very good sound insulation. Good luck in constructing it though...
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I dont think wood would be too bad. With good cooling and circulation, it should be fine.
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Post by DiMitRy »

A case mod that is entirely made out of wood has been done already. I had a picture of the case, but due to a wonderful hard drive failure, i lost it. I'll try and find the pic again and post.
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I have this idea to mount all the components on a thickish flat perspex baseplate, say, 4 feet by 4 feet, then hang the whole thing up against a wall next to your desk, with a flatpanel. I mean neatly mounted with all the cables tied down and hidden in trunking where possible. With a 9inch tapped bolt in the wall to make sure newton does not intervene.
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Post by whipme »

i want to make a case out of titanium, just to say i have a titanium case.
and im working on an idea for a fibreglass alienware clone.

ooh ooh, i had an idea to watercool my entire mobo, on the back, like they do to hard drives with
the copper block and the perspex cover, then build it into the case so it's visible
from the outside.
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Post by wit_skapie »

Some wood cases:

This one looks really good

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Some discusions on wood cases:

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Company selling real wood pc's:

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And this one isn't reall wood - just the look:

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and go check this one - got some "Crazy Mod Contest" entries:

Crazy Mods

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Post by Cameron_Losco »

I always wanted to build a PC into a desk. Not into the side but into the top and have a glass worktop, similar to those desks that have the monitor inside the desk.
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Post by Anakha56 »

just for dammod... :D

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i wonder what the heat was like in it? :roll:
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Post by whipme »

that's all good and well, but does it actually ride?
can you race your pc around on the racetrack?

WRT the story of building your pc into the desk, it's a research topic that's getting
a lot of attention in the area of ubiquotous computing and human computer interaction.
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Post by Quash »

Trust whipme to bring up big words like "ubiquotous computing" =P
Anyhow.

skunkymunky: I can recommend a good therapist if you want =P
Although... I'm sure a lot of us have felt like doing just that (refering to hacking at case) to our PC at one stage or another.



My idea for a mod, which I'll probably never undertake, is to build the whole system inside a small bar fridge ^_^
That, way no more cooling problems =P

Obviously there is one major flaw with this idea being that at such temperatures you'll have a lot of condensation on your components and then... well let's not say it.
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Post by dammod »

Anakha56, nice one :-) , thanks. Pretty nice car that.

That mod would attract crouds like crazy at a LAN!!!!
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Post by elbow »

Those are some pretty wicked mods! a mate of mine has built his pc into a cardboard asus mobo box! will try get the pics and upload soon! it looks pretty good lol! it even has led's and a uv light!
love the pickaxe mod!!! how many times have i wanted to do that 2 a pc!!!
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Post by Futs »

I really like this idead, don't see you carrying it to a LAN though :P
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Post by Quash »

Futs wrote:I really like this idead, don't see you carrying it to a LAN though :P
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Er... it looks like a PC in a tank filled with urine 8O
Not very appealing I'm afraid :?
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Post by whipme »

actually, it's non-conductive oil, vegetable oil of some sort if i remember correctly.
problem is that it's oil, and that means your hardware will be all oily, yuk.
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Post by Quash »

whipme wrote:actually, it's non-conductive oil, vegetable oil of some sort if i remember correctly.
problem is that it's oil, and that means your hardware will be all oily, yuk.

Oil.. urine... same problem in the end: it's bloody heavy to carry & will make your hardware all yukky.

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Post by Samaya »

I want to take a mannequin (the female version) build the Mobo into her tummy, put a heat extractor in that vents the hot air out her butt, on/off the nipples of her breasts, the cables coming out her ... ahem front. And maybe replace her head with a LCD screen or something. THE PERFECT WOMAN....








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Futs wrote:I really like this idead, don't see you carrying it to a LAN though :P
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Thats positively vile - yukk ! 8O
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Post by Sojourn »

I'm also thinking about a mod that will house two PC's in one. Something like taking two cases, remove the left and right side panel respectively with hinges at the rear. The cases then would house two pc's in one. (Micro ATX form factor)
Cant think of many uses for this, just an idea that flew past me.

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well you would have your dedicated cs server right next to you. There is a program called multiplicity that offers you to be able to control many different machines through one monitor keyboard and mouse without needing to buy any fancy gear.

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