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Design-Your-Own Computer Case Kits
lord black writes "I was walking the aisles of the local Fry's and discovered a nifty computer-case-erector-set-thingy. Made by Aero Cool, the Lubic kit is basically a bunch of aluminum rails, acrylic panels (for mounting hardware to), and misc. screws to connect it all, for constructing a unique computer case. They have a gallery of example cases. BTW, Aero Cool also makes neat CPU coolers."
Both are just about equally worthless. Both cost ridiculous sums of money for products eventually become worthless. It looks good, but is mostly a makeup for the user's own inadequacies. These modders just love to tell you about their mods and show it off, as if everybody else should care.
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Why geeks can dump hundreds of dollars into what is effectively a glorified box, but can lay only excuses on a cause like Wikipedia's survival.
Except that the people that buy this crap are not case modders. The term "case modder" implies that you have some artistic vision to take something boring and through hard work and craftsmanship you modify it to make something unique. This, however, is a bunch of overpriced crap that's trying to cash in on the "sure, I'll pay $30 for a fan with LEDs" crowd. "Case modding" does not mean picking out your case from a menu of options in a catalog.
Apparently, these are the same people that plaster their Civics with stickers and buy "horsepower adders", as if a gauze air filter and neon colored ignition wires actually had any (non-psychological) effect on performance.
Using enough sterotypes?
Case modding isn't just taking a standard case then adding a window and lights. Rather case ricers are a vocal subset of case modding.
There are many other types of case modding:
1. HiFi - Modified to reduce noise.
2. Overclocker - modified to increase cooling.
3. Art - modified to be an expression of the owner, in much the same way as art cars. This is distinct from tarting up.
4. Disguise - many people shoehorn PCs in to cases that look nothing like a PC. eg: R/C car body
5. Geekiness - modifying case for additional capabilities, eg: tracked R/C case, with built in UPS.
Anyway I thought ricers were typically not liked because they tried to make a car look "fast", without any performance improvement. That is not the same as making a car look "pretty". I've not yet heard a case ricer claim that their cosmetic changes made their computer faster.
In other words, "You keep using that term, I don't think it means what you think it means."
All these cases are neat. Though I hate to be a killjoy, it's what I do best.
How is RFI suppression handled in these clear plastic cases?
Keeping your computer case closed to RF is generally a good idea.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.