The last one is of my Linux firewall, which became my Linux fileserver, which became a piece of junk currently running
Windows 98 that does nothing except suck up power. Anyway, story.
I started case modding about three years ago, after seeing the finished product of an associate. My poor generic case has
been through more half-assed ideas than a Lutheran in a whorehouse; I began with a simple blue tint plexi window with a 10'
blue neon, which ended up not working out when the light cakked. The lighting ended up becoming a red cold cathode with a 5'
neon for a little bit of blue tint, and a strip of EL cable around the window for effect. Added the kanji decal, rounded
the IDE cables with split loom, put "spiral wrap" (aka fish tank tubing) on most of the wires, and added a strobelgiht behind
the bezel swoosh-thingy, controlled by a potentiometer to adjust the pulse.
All wiring, soldering, etc was done by me, with my half-electrician friend standing by to mock my work.
2.8M AVI of strobelight in action. Wicked Pic of strobelight in action.
SYSTEM | |
OS | Dual boot Windows XP Professional / Linux (Mandrake) 8.0 |
Processor | AMD Athlon XP 1700 (1.5 GHZ) |
RAM | 512M DDR [ 2 x 256 ] |
Motherboard | Asus A7A266 [ ALiMAGiK 1 Chipset ] |
Video Card | NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 [ 64M DDR ] |
Sound Card | Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value |
Ethernet Card | 100 Base-TX: 100 MBPS |
DRIVES | |
CDROM/CDRW | Sonyr 32x12x24x |
Floppy | Generic 3 1/2 Drive |
Primary Master Disk | Quantum Plus LS 30G [ 7400 RPM ] |
Primary Slave Disk | Western Digital 10G [ 5200 RPM ] |
MISCELLANEOUS | |
Monitor | Samsung 17" |
Power Supply | 275 Watts |
Cooling |
Antec JetCool Heatsink
Generic 5 1/2" Drive Bay HD Cooler 80mm (exhaust) system fan |
Audio | KOSS 75W RMS speakers |
Mods |
Blue tint Plexiglass window
12' red cold cathode 5' blue neon light 10" EL cable Bezel mounted switches Spraypainted hammered black Strobe light behind teal bezel decoration Homemade rounded cables Assorted custom wiring |