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Old 12-08-2003, 02:35 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Media My First PC Mod

Hello all. I just completed my first PC mod. I built the entire computer out of components that I had selected.

Everything was working great but I wanted to make the computer look better since there were tons of wires.



Just recently I installed 2 cold cathode black light tubes, a UV sensitive rounded IDE cable and UV sensitive wrapping to organize the wires (hopefully for better air flow).

Here's what I came up with:





In the process of wrapping the wires I somehow broke one of the blacklight tubes. It will be a pain in the butt to replace since I have already wrapped the wires. I will probably just leave it. I would like to add a UV sensitive circle sticker to the CPU fan but so far all I've seen are cheesy yin-yangs or alien heads. If you look closely you'll notice the edges of my video and sound card glow yellow. This is because I used a highlighter around the edges. I totally recommend this to anyone looking to add a little extra spice to their case.

I have more pictures on my website, including a 360 revolving product view:
http://scott.canoni.com/pictures.asp?dir=/My%20Computer

Specs:

2.6GHz Intel CPU
ATI 9600 Radeon Pro
1 Gig Dual Channel RAM
160 Gig HD + 40 Gig HD
875 Intel Motherboard
2 Cold Cathod blacklights
1 sound pulsing blue light (not on in the pictures but cool in real life)
3 fans, 2 of which glow blue
2 columns of color switching light on the front


Let me know what you think.

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Old 12-08-2003, 02:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
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looks really cool wanna do my rig?

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Old 12-08-2003, 10:42 PM   #3 (permalink)
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WoW, that is really cool!
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Old 12-08-2003, 10:59 PM   #4 (permalink)
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sweet!...

makes me wish ya could do mods & stuff to laptops...
oh well.... maybe after the holidays ill build me a rig.

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Old 12-08-2003, 11:10 PM   #5 (permalink)
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SERIOUSLY good effort for your 1st rig canonis!!

Keep up the good work..... and welcome to TechIMO
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...I'm confused...out of components u selected...for example??
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Old 12-08-2003, 11:25 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Excellent work. One of these days I'm going to do the same thing to my rig.
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Old 12-09-2003, 07:25 AM   #8 (permalink)
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...I'm confused...out of components u selected...for example??
What components are you confused about?

Thanks for the great feedback guys.
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Old 12-09-2003, 06:32 PM   #9 (permalink)
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cleaned up the wiring pretty nicely...but with what? What is the wrap you used, I've never seen it before.

I love that aluminum case, the wifes got one with the acrylic bubble sticks on the front with the color changing LEDs.
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Old 12-09-2003, 08:21 PM   #10 (permalink)
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looks like a UV reactive spiral wrap..

congrats on your first mod.. do you have plans to make the side panel into a full window mod?


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