Red Team Modders

I completed this mod late last year. I typically do scratch build mods, so building in a pre-existing case, and one with glass on both sides no less, really took me out of my comfort zone. I actually found it to be much more difficult than the elaborate mods I have built in the past. But it turned out pretty great and I learned some glass etching skills along the way. The below point of interest was built using a metal electrical box, and the components of a radiation detector. Behind the white piece, I installed a a red flickering LED. The yellow nuclear graphic was painted using a stencil that I custom made myself. The image below is a picture of the actual core from a nuclear reactor. I printed the image on heavyweight matte paper, so that the lights would not reflect on the image. Only the edges of the front gill were painted yellow, which gives it a really nice industrial look. This mod won 3rd place in the PDXLAN Case Mod Contest in the Fall '22 event. Hope you like it! 🙂 🙂 ... View more

@eebiii , winner of the November Rig of the Month contest, has done it again! He created another mod that I believe all of you will enjoy! It’s called “Liquid Voltage”. ... View more

How many times have you jumped into building a computer and had to stop because you forgot to buy a critical component?  Have you ever started building a system inside a really cool case only to find that your video card is too long and won't fit without ripping out the HDD cage?   Or better yet - you build a system, plug it in and it won't post.  Yep, we've all been there.  You forgot to do something or you bought something that was incompatible with the other components.  My 'lessons learned' are to assemble the computer components outside the case, using the motherboard box as a support, and making sure it boots up.  In fact, I usually load Windows on the system while I'm at it.  Sometimes I mark the cables and ports so I'll use the same ones when I disassemble the components and place them inside the computer case (or inside a slot machine as is the case below).   What lessons learned can you share with us, your fellow modders? Rebuild of Game-a-Tron, thinking outside the box as it were.   ... View more

You guys might remember that I gave away a computer during my 2022 Labor Day LAN party.  Well, this Thermaltake Level-10 GT was the original case from what I gave away.  I wanted to save this case, so I had bought a new LAN COOL case in August to house the older components that were in the Thermaltake Level-10 GT (FX CPU, stuff like that).  Meanwhile, I won the Rig of the Month contest in September with my Purrfection build, so I had the two prizes of a B350 Gigabyte motherboard and an AMD 3600X CPU.  I figured I would use those in the new build, but I also had an AMD 3950X CPU and an AMD 5600 CPU lying around too.  What to do?  Try them all, and that's what I did.   An old case but one I like quite a bit for superior cooling. ... View more