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Originally posted by: sodcha0s
Originally posted by: Mucker
Come dudes, seriously, you're missing the point. To each their own. I think that that build is exceptional. It's not about "you'll be much better off if you get yourself a Coolermaster, balh, blah. etc.." It's a guy showing his work, his hobby, that's all. Alot of work went into it and then some morons come in and thrash it...I just don't get it. I own a cheap a$$ case and I'm not interested in building something like that, however, I still think it's an excellent build...

m 🙂
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Hey azzwipe, I'm not missing any point. To each their own, I agree.... I gave props to the dudes ability, then gave MY OPINION on why I don't like the case. Does that make me a moron? You obviously don't respect anyones opinion that differs from you own, and maybe you should practice what you preach. Everybody that posted in this thread gave their opinion, nobody "trashed" the guy, and you come in here and throw insults around in both of your posts. So if your going to give your opinion, fine. But don't insult others over theirs.

First thing that came to my mind when I saw it was that it looks like Borg cube from star trek
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Exactly what I thought.
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First you called me "bubba" and now "azzwipe" (yes' I've been called much worse and could care less). No insults there huh 😀?

I like your reponse: "Lighten up there bubba. Nobody critcized the talent and workmanship that went into that case. Quite the contrary, most of us praised that aspect. But I have to say it looks bad, and is completely impractical. Not to mention the expense, that thing must have cost a fortune. Call it art if you want to, but we'll call it a monument to excess, and a clusterfvck."

"it looks bad", "completely impractical", "monument to excess", "clusterfvk".....again, no insults there :roll:

I think it looks great (only my opinion too). And answer me this, how do you know it is impractical. You don't have a clue what he uses it for and it could very well and probably does leave your machine in the dust from a performance and cooling standpoint. You simply don't have a clue about how "impractical" this machine is, but hey, feel free to throw out a shotgun reply. You mention excess, fortune, blah, blah, blah. It's not your time or money to judge. He could use the money on different hobbies I suppose like guns, porn, ice cream, bowling.... if that is more to your liking. Throw another insult at me if you must, I could care less....

m 🙂
 
I appreciate the amount of work that went into it, but if I happened to be in the area on a random kill spree, I'd cap him for making something so grotesque.
 
Originally posted by: Mucker
Originally posted by: sodcha0s
Originally posted by: Mucker
Come dudes, seriously, you're missing the point. To each their own. I think that that build is exceptional. It's not about "you'll be much better off if you get yourself a Coolermaster, balh, blah. etc.." It's a guy showing his work, his hobby, that's all. Alot of work went into it and then some morons come in and thrash it...I just don't get it. I own a cheap a$$ case and I'm not interested in building something like that, however, I still think it's an excellent build...

m 🙂
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Hey azzwipe, I'm not missing any point. To each their own, I agree.... I gave props to the dudes ability, then gave MY OPINION on why I don't like the case. Does that make me a moron? You obviously don't respect anyones opinion that differs from you own, and maybe you should practice what you preach. Everybody that posted in this thread gave their opinion, nobody "trashed" the guy, and you come in here and throw insults around in both of your posts. So if your going to give your opinion, fine. But don't insult others over theirs.

First thing that came to my mind when I saw it was that it looks like Borg cube from star trek
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Exactly what I thought.
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First you called me "bubba" and now "azzwipe" (yes' I've been called much worse and could care less). No insults there huh 😀?

I like your reponse: "Lighten up there bubba. Nobody critcized the talent and workmanship that went into that case. Quite the contrary, most of us praised that aspect. But I have to say it looks bad, and is completely impractical. Not to mention the expense, that thing must have cost a fortune. Call it art if you want to, but we'll call it a monument to excess, and a clusterfvck."

"it looks bad", "completely impractical", "monument to excess", "clusterfvk".....again, no insults there :roll:

I think it looks great (only my opinion too). And answer me this, how do you know it is impractical. You don't have a clue what he uses it for and it could very well and probably does leave your machine in the dust from a performance and cooling standpoint. You simply don't have a clue about how "impractical" this machine is, but hey, feel free to throw out a shotgun reply. You mention excess, fortune, blah, blah, blah. It's not your time or money to judge. He could use the money on different hobbies I suppose like guns, porn, ice cream, bowling.... if that is more to your liking. Throw another insult at me if you must, I could care less....

m 🙂
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Again, those are my opinions... It's impractical from the standpoint that it may take days to perform a simple upgrade, and all the "bling" probably cost at least as much as the system itself. It is excessive, and to me a clusterfvck. I took issue with you and you only, because of your attitude and assumptions towards me and others.

"Are you jealous, I'm sure you couldn't come close in creativity, Alot of work went into it and then some morons come in and thrash it."

If you think that case is awesome, that's fine and I really couldn't care less. However, since you took the liberty to verbally attack those of us with differen't views than yours, you opened yourself up to crtitcism.


 
Can we pipe down on commenting and QUOTING each other's OPINIONS? For God sake, voice your opinion and let others do theirs.
To me, the machine looks like an alien's guts. Disgusting, wierd. I appreciate his effort, but as an artisit piece, it fails to impress me. That's my opinion. Don't flame, criticize, and psychoanalyze.
 
Originally posted by: Erssa
I think this case is just awesome. First thing that came to my mind when I saw it was that it looks like Borg cube from star trek...
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Agree 🙂:beer:

One nice thing about Anandtech is that people are generally helpful and curtious. This thread seems to be one of the exceptions though 🙁 Why do people have to share their opinion with words like "I just think it's ugly" and "...why put in all the effort if it's going to look that bad?" or "Disgusting, wierd"?

Why not try to find nicer ways to express an opinion without insulting others?

 
that case looks nice

I got 1 question, in the CD drives, the top one looks like the kind I saw in MacMini(my friend's got one, that's how I knew) or those in people's cars... is that some sort of special fancy disk drive? or does one have to mod it to make it look and function like that

if those kinds of drives are in retail, I'd like to get one, it'd be nice to just put the disk in the slot not having to push a button
 
It works like this: In the real world, who is more mature, the gentleman driving the stately Lexus, or the kid in the low-riding, huge spoiler, rimmed out Honda Civic?
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Who cares about maturity?

[ Note: this coming from a Lexus driver ]
 
Holy shlt-storm batman!

I didn't think the link would create such strong feelings. I agree on one hand that the thing is way overdone and about as practical as a USB tennis shoe, but nevertheless, you gotta give the guy credit for his talent and effort in the mod (as well as the article). I really like a few of the high tech looking aspects of the rig and if you read his intro you can see that he was going for a very specific look so at least cut him some slack. The article itself offers dozens of tips that could be applied to all kinds of mods etc, I learned some pretty sweet tricks from reading it.

Anyhow, I wanted to point out part one of his next mod project: WMD (a completely different approach, if you didnt care for the orac mod, you may feel different about this one). It's modeled after a nuclear bomb. The link is to the last page of a 24 page article detailing all of the steps in fabricating the stainless steel cylinders that make up the case. Theres a dropdown menue to view the rest of the pages.

I personally think this one is going to be sweet as hell. It suits my tastes to a T (as long as he keeps green out of the equation that is.....) check out some of the sponsors behind the WMD project: "Shuttle, AMD, Engelking, Western Digital, Corsair, Creative, Sapphire, HWLabs, innovatek, CoolercasesUK, KustomPCs and Mnpctech"

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OK, lets hear what ya'll think about the WMD mod.
 
Originally posted by: ky
Who cares about maturity?

[ Note: this coming from a Lexus driver ]
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😛

The point I'm making is that those of a more mature level tend not to need to flaunt. We're more interested in quality, capability, and purpose than attention-whoring.
 
I still don't understand? The quality of the components in that build is top notch (surpasses most all cases I've seen). How do you know what the capability of this machine is? It may just pummel the snot out of your machine in computing power and cooling. And if it is made of quality parts, which it is, and has more capability than most machines, I'd say it has plenty of purpose. Aesthetically it's a turn off to some and a turn on to others, but to raise the points you do just doesn't add up too well....

m 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Idleuser
I bet 99% of you guys wouldn't have the talnet to do one of those massive project... I would like to see any of you try.. taste is in the eye of the beholder... anyways I think his project looks awesome to me atleast anyways.
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It?s not very difficult to do, just takes time and a few tools. If I were to try something similar, I?d use braided stainless tubing with red anodized crimp on ends. More of a ?high performance? look.
It?s still a hell of a good idea, and he did a nice job.
 
Either I'm missing the point, or putting all that painstaking work (regardless of whether it looks good or not) into something that will be obsolete in two years is a sad waste of effort.

I can just imagine the guy wanting to swap out a video card or optical drive, and having to dig thru that mess and rewire.
 
Originally posted by: glorygunk
Either I'm missing the point, or putting all that painstaking work (regardless of whether it looks good or not) into something that will be obsolete in two years is a sad waste of effort.

I can just imagine the guy wanting to swap out a video card or optical drive, and having to dig thru that mess and rewire.
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Agreed, working on that rig would be a PITA. Here is where I differ though, "all that painstaking work" will not be obsolute in two years. It's a PC case, exactly what is going to be obsolete about it?

Anybody check out his WMD mod yet?
 
Originally posted by: Insomniak
So anyway, if you want to build a case that looks like the bastard child of a neon sign and a robotic spider
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Dear Christ, Som... I haven't laughed so hard in the past three days. Thank you very much.

I hafta agree with Som on this one. The dedication and the design are outstanding and are worthy of awards and praise, but from a practicality standpoint, this is a total piece of horse feces.

Its a work of art in case modification and design, but that's its only claim to fame.

 
Originally posted by: Insomniak
Originally posted by: Mucker
Are you jealous? Is that it? That build is simply art at it's finest. The workmanship is astounding (not a single scratch on the bolts, etc..) Not everyone has the expertise or patience to put a box like this together at this level, and I'm sure you couldn't come close in creativity. Guys like you need a safe little place with your CoolerMaster, Lian-Li, Antec, etc. (spelled b-o-r-i-n-g). You can be a part of the masses or rise well above it like this builder did.....
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lol, yeah, that's it...I'm greener than his plexiglass with envy 😛

And I'm sure he's DEFINITELY making a political "fight the power!" statement by building this case :roll:

It works like this: In the real world, who is more mature, the gentleman driving the stately Lexus, or the kid in the low-riding, huge spoiler, rimmed out Honda Civic?

Exactly.

You have a fair point with "to each his own", which is why I'm not doing anything more than posting my opinion on this mod. Just like the

Originally posted by: Insomniak
kid in the low-riding, huge spoiler, rimmed out Honda Civic
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this mod looks ridiculous, is obviously trying to hard to be noticed, and must be compensating for something. No, I don't try to garner attention with some wackjob PC case because there's nothing I need to prove to you - it's not worth my time. I look at a PC like this: If I set it up in my office at work, would my co-workers laugh me out of the building?

If the answer is yes, that means the clients would be GUARANTEED to do so, and the case is obviously lacking.

There's a difference between doing custom work on a case, and doing elegant, tasteful custom work on a case. This is why the paint jobs from Falcon, VooDoo, et al are so high quality - people appreciate professionalism in design.

So anyway, if you want to build a case that looks like the bastard child of a neon sign and a robotic spider, be my guest, but don't expect me to think it has any more merit than abstract art: little to none.

EDIT: God, I could even understand ugly if it were practical, but it can't even claim that. This mod is weird for the sake of being weird, which I've never been able to see a point to.
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See, THIS is why this board is so f-in' boring. You guys lack the modding spirit. You don't mod for practicality. You mod for the sheer joy of creation. "I f-in' made this!" is the cry of the modder. All the better if it looks badass, which this does.

And who judges a person's character by how their PC looks anyway? Just because my PC can melt your "Lexus" into slag purely by virtue of its badassness, I've got some kind of inferiority complex? Suck my tiny penis, dude.

 
See, THIS is why this board is so f-in' boring. You guys lack the modding spirit. You don't mod for practicality. You mod for the sheer joy of creation. "I f-in' made this!" is the cry of the modder. All the better if it looks badass, which this does.
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I couldn't agree more. I just can't get excited about "look-I-made-a-hole-in-my-case-just-to-improve-ventilation-mods"...
 
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
And who judges a person's character by how their PC looks anyway?
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Exactly - that's why modding is useless if it's not practical - if it serves no purpose, it has no point.
 
Originally posted by: Insomniak

Exactly - that's why modding is useless if it's not practical - if it serves no purpose, it has no point.
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Nothing is useless if it adds to someone's enjoyment of life. What good is a picture on the wall? Why paint the wall for that matter, after all it really serves no purpose since it's all for looks and not practicality. How about some nice custom wheels for your car? Some landscaping? Nah, he says, no practicality in that, what purpose would it serve? Um....I don't know, it fvcking looks good and I like it so fvck off with your advice and deal with it?

I just love those people who take it on themselves to decide for the entire rest of the world what matters and what does not. Get over yourselves people. Jesus! Do you go around inflicting you favorite color on people cause it's the ONLY one that really matters? (heh, something tells me you many of you probably do....)
 
Originally posted by: SkyBum
Nothing is useless if it adds to someone's enjoyment of life. What good is a picture on the wall? Why paint the wall for that matter, after all it really serves no purpose since it's all for looks and not practicality.
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Paintings look good. Unless of course it's the abstract art I already alluded to earlier in this thread in which case you're asking a very good question - why do something useless?

There's a difference between art and this case. Don't get confused. I certainly have no problems with things that look pleasant - but this case does not. It looks terrible. That case looks good the same way this vehicle looks good:

http://photo.ricecop.com/pics/lexus_i_think.jpg

Originally posted by: SkyBum
How about some nice custom wheels for your car?
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Are they better quality than your current wheels? Do they provide a feature your current wheels do not?

Originally posted by: SkyBum
Some landscaping? Nah, he says, no practicality in that, what purpose would it serve?
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If you have indoor/outdoor pets, especially dogs, good landscaping helps keep free(er) of ticks during the warmer months. That's part of the reason we did it. The other reason is that the neighborhood has ordinances. Oh and it increases property value for my home.

And yes, it does happen to look pleasant, although that's mostly gravy.


Originally posted by: SkyBum
I just love those people who take it on themselves to decide for the entire rest of the world what matters and what does not.
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If I wasn't so right, I might have a different view.

Duh.

More to the point, if it's personal enjoyment, why do people show them around? If you're looking for like minded people, fine, but if you choose to garner public opinion on it, don't be surprised when some of them don't like it.
 
Ugh, I'm really getting sick and tired of this board. Notice my post count, I only have very few posts because I am sick and tired of people like those on this thread who constantly go on and on and on bashing something. I've seen it all over the internet before, but I must say, this is the WORST board I have seen considering bashing.

Becuase of my dismal post count, I know this post will probably go unheard (afterall, everyone knows that the only way to judge someone on line is by how many ridiculous posts they've made, a troll who has made thousands of posts MUST be smarter then anyone else who joins) but I must get this out of me anyway.

How many of all you people on this thread have actually bothered to look through all the parts of the project, especially part 1 where the guy explains the whole point of the mod, he wanted to create his own "Orac" (a robot from some TV show) as he said,

"Seeing some of the nicer acrylic cases that were appearing, I decided to mod one of these cases into my own version of an Orac-type computer - I'll be calling the project Orac³ as it's my own Orac in a C³ case. Mine won't look much like the original though! The original Orac was a messy mish-mash of cheap electronics components and coloured Perspex. I plan on creating a tidy mishmash of expensive electronic components and coloured Perspex! I do still hope to retain some of the characteristics of the original Orac."

His whole goal fro mthe beginning was to make it look very expensive, with the Orac "spirit" still intact.

And everybody who's talking about how impractical it is, all modding projects I have ever seen have been impractical to a degree, and I doubt he would build something like that and ever plan to upgrade it. His goal wasn't to creat the most powerful computer ever, his goal was to creat a computer which HE thought looked good.

Keyword, HE, just because you all may think it looks ugly and terrible, does NOT mean he does, nor does it mean everyone else has to and it should never have existed. If the modder himself think it looks good and is awesome, that IS ALL THE MATTERS. And it is clearly obvious he DOES like it, and has NO regrets about building it.

So even if you all think it looks terrible, is completely impracitcal and whatnot, doesn't mean you should go around and act as if all computer should be exactly the same, so what if someone wants to be a little different? Does him modding his case somehow foil your plans for world domination by having all computer be identical silver, black, or beige boxes?

And yes, there is a motherboard under all that, it's just hidden by a chrome coated box.
 
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