Okay, LAN gamers need to be shot...

[skroo]

OK, I'm behind schedule. Sue me. Here's round two of the Indy casemods. Probably not as exciting as round one, but blue nonetheless.

And because I'm lazy, I'm going to consolidate several replies into this thread :)

I'm not one for dasblinkenlights, but Having a subtle glow coming from an indy is pretty cool. Good job.

Thanks :) I do wonder if the BeBox can be considered the first true casemod, though, even if the blinkenlights were factory-standard.

You sir, are WRONG! Every self-respetting case modder and ricer owner knows that the color of speed is YELLOW, not PURPLE. The purple wire ties are just a conceession to Martha Stewart color correctness and does not speed electrons along to give you the added megahurtz! How do I know this? I watched Too Fast Too Furious repeatedly.

My purple cable ties may not have the megahertz of the yellow ones, but I plan to make up for it with ground effects and spoilers. Three-tier spoilers, even.

Shit, if I was an IT director and I came in and found some idiot had been sticking neon tubing on one of our multimillion dollar sun racks, there'd certainly be yet another nerd collecting unemployment pretty quickly.

Fuck that. Beat the holy living crap out of him, *then* let him grab a place in the bread line. People like that deserve a good ass-kicking.

[jesse]

i remember seeing photos on slashdot of some very expensive Sun servers that some moron had "casemodded".

Shit, if I was an IT director and I came in and found some idiot had been sticking neon tubing on one of our multimillion dollar sun racks, there'd certainly be yet another nerd collecting unemployment pretty quickly.

[murakami]

So I gave in to case mod fever and decided to hurt an Indy, possibly the most pointless machine to try to case mod.

I'll get the photos of the latest round of mods up later tonight.

You sir, are WRONG! Every self-respetting case modder and ricer owner knows that the color of speed is YELLOW, not PURPLE. The purple wire ties are just a conceession to Martha Stewart color correctness and does not speed electrons along to give you the added megahurtz! How do I know this? I watched Too Fast Too Furious repeatedly.

[renderman]

So I gave in to case mod fever and decided to hurt an Indy, possibly the most pointless machine to try to case mod.

I'll get the photos of the latest round of mods up later tonight.

There's a difference between mods for style, and just ugly

I'm not one for dasblinkenlights, but Having a subtle glow coming from an indy is pretty cool. Good job.

[skroo]

I wish my stereo receiver had VU meters like that...

So I gave in to case mod fever and decided to hurt an Indy, possibly the most pointless machine to try to case mod.

I'll get the photos of the latest round of mods up later tonight.

[bascule]

Because any market segment that would buy something like this can NOT be allowed to reproduce, EVER.

I wish my stereo receiver had VU meters like that...

[mage2]

Reading this reminded me of this post. so im sharing

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13642

Skroo- remembe rthe two things that drive the computer industry:

Games

Porn

If it wern't for gamers demanding mor epower, tehbusiness industry would hv been perfectly happy to have the 486DX2/66 be teh flagship processor for at least 5 years.

Porn, god bless it, gives us bandwdth

Besides, the ram would look dope as hell with a clear side panel, running the liquid cooling clear tubing with with green UV dye added.

I was happy last week to order a nice stick of DDR 3200 (400MHz fsb) with copper heat sinks. 1 GIG. Single stick.

I had big boner.

[kallahar]

My mega l33t case mod (sorry, no neon) or LED's (not even a power LED)

http://quickwired.com/kallahar/indigo2/

[Shatter]

I'm not a gamer, but I love case modding. I really want to put a fish tank or a coffee pot into my box.

I'm still considering making my next rig submersable using dyalectric oils. No heat sinks or fans needed.

Sealed acrylic case, and just drop everything into the oil.

Unfortunatly, no fish.

[Shatter]

Then one has to ask, why has there been no significant advancement in Video conferencing in the last 5 years then? You'd think that the porn industry would have funded that development long ago? You'd think they would have moved on from H.323 by now. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

As for the Ram, I've never understood the whole case modding thing. I don't need any lights to tell me if my RAM is fried.

As long as it works I don't care what it looks like. Which might explain why I've had systems built into cardboard boxes on occasion.

Vid Conf: The girls don't want to actually SEE the other side. One way streaming is working just fine. Thus, it's as far as it's going to go.

Case modding: It's art. High tech geek art. Some peopel are hapy with plain beige case. Other people Want to have what looks like a futuristic Oni-Sendai 3205-B cyber deck.

Me? I just want my dermatrodes and an interface jack.

[octalpus]

I don't get case modding either, but it definatly serves a huge purpose at a LAN party. Lets face it guys, when that guy with a computer that can drive itself into the house on a twin turbo 350 horsepower engine and play Unreal at 300mph walks in, everyone cowers in fear...or something like that.

I'm not a gamer, but I love case modding. I really want to put a fish tank or a coffee pot into my box.

[Xodia]

I don't get case modding either, but it definatly serves a huge purpose at a LAN party. Lets face it guys, when that guy with a computer that can drive itself into the house on a twin turbo 350 horsepower engine and play Unreal at 300mph walks in, everyone cowers in fear...or something like that.

[murakami]

I got a lan party box, it is the litteral deffinition of the flashy box, I did it mainly to show off at some of the lan partys, but it serves its perpose when I want some high power graphics, and yes, my box runs gentoo, and you should see the compiles on it. Here is a pic of it, with the dual monitors hooked up to it.

http://www.ck3k.org/gal/computer.jpg

I likes the rack mount HVAC unit on top, you should put streamers on it.

[ck3k]

I got a lan party box, it is the litteral deffinition of the flashy box, I did it mainly to show off at some of the lan partys, but it serves its perpose when I want some high power graphics, and yes, my box runs gentoo, and you should see the compiles on it. Here is a pic of it, with the dual monitors hooked up to it.

http://www.ck3k.org/gal/computer.jpg

[hackajar]

Its kinda like jacking up a POS sedan with airshocks, bolting on some traction bars, slapping on Cragar mags with offbrand raised white letter tires, and welding on glasspacks.

It looks like you did something to make it fast, but its still a POS sedan. At least thats what we did back in the day.

Kids have it much easier today, you paint a POS compact car yellow, slap on a bunch of stickers, and hoseclamp a coffee can tailpipe. Voila, instant Type R!

How many of these people think the 10'ft spoiler accually does something? And why would you put it on a 97 corolla?