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3XS Isotope - 11 Sided Gamer's Computer

Posted by Zonk on from the one-more-side-and-you-could-roll-barbarian-hit-points dept.

Kez writes "For those who want to show off, then a undecagonal-faced prism case might be worth consideration. Scan's 3XS Isotope is certainly a very unusual system. It takes micro-ATX motherboards, so you can still use high end hardware in it. Perhaps the perfect LAN party system? HEXUS.net has a review, pointing out that this is the sort of system you will either love or hate."

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  1. Thought it meant multi-monitor by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 3, Informative

    But it turns out that this is just a specially-shaped case.

  2. Re:Missing? by Sparr0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, but only the first page. I saw all the other pics, including the interior ones, on the later pages just fine.

  3. It's not 11-sided by S.O.B. · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not to be picky (OK I'm being picky) but it's not 11-sided. The front and back are also "sides" making this a 13-sided case.

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    1. Re:It's not 11-sided by TheoMurpse · · Score: 3, Informative

      There's actually only five Platonic solids (regular polyhedra in Euclidean space):
      1. Icosahedron (20-sided, all triangles)
      2. Hexahedron (cube, 6-sided, all squares)
      3. Dodecahedron (12-sided, all pentagons)
      4. Tetrahedron (4-sided, triangular pyramid, all triangles)
      5. Octahedron (8-sided, all triangles)

  4. Coral link by CompSurfer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Coral-ated Link

  5. Re:Lan parties... by jarich · · Score: 2, Informative
    you can't exactly get Athlon64 4000+ and a beefy video card on your laptop

    I don't know... this one looks decent (courtesy of PriceWatch)

    http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/index.php?section=c atagory&include_type=14_inch

    It's an AMD64-3700 w/a Radeon 9700

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  6. The summary has it right. by ljaguar · · Score: 4, Informative

    The summary has it right.

    It said undecagonal prism. The article, however, says "(the shape's called a undecahedron, in case you were wondering)" That is wrong.

    Polygon = 2D. Undecagon is an 11-sided two-dimensional geometric object. Three-dimensional object enclosed by generalized cylinder and two congruent polygon is called a prism. So Undecagonal prism is the accurate description of the case.

    Polyhedron = 3D. Undecahedron is an 11-sided three-dimensional object. This has 13 sides. (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Polyhedron.html) mathworld lists no name canonical name for 13 sided polyhedron.

    But your point was that the computer's case as a polyhedron has 13 sides not 11. You are also right.

  7. allure? by SuperBanana · · Score: 4, Informative
    Part of the allure of the ISOTOPE, to some at least, is having it pre-modified to accommodate a series of lighting gadgets, ranging from a couple of cathodes through to neon string and, would you believe, a strobe light.

    Um...I thought the whole 'allure' of stupi...er, I mean, custom looking cases was that they're unique and YOU built it. You know, instead of having that dull grey case that everyone else has, you have a case with neon and cutouts and 50 fans. Just like everyone else, but at least YOU botched the installation and didn't get it quite square and so on, so it's still...uh...unique.

    So how is this supposed to be alluring? Next year, everyone's going to have one of these things.

    Sorry, I forgot to put in [click to read more] after every sentence...

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