You’ve waited for it, you anticipated it for a long long time, and now that its here you are orgasmic about it…….actually you probably couldn’t give two shits. But it certainly is time: we have waited long enough and now it shall begin. In this section we will be displaying to you the process we use to build the ultimate custom PC cases. No, we do not mean buying a friggin window kit, a dremel, and a neon light and then spending 30 minutes on the whole process...that is WEAK.

    We will be designing and building two acrylic beasts from scratch - one, an ultimate computer, other, an ultimate ultra-quiet server. Go to google and search for case mods - any gallery you find will have at most 4 all-plexiglass cases, 3 being cases from sites such as clearcases and clearPC with an added neon light. This is because none of them has original ideas. And of the clear cases you do see, they are all just the standard ATX dimensions. We promise you that what will be produced, described, and shown here will defy all that is holy of the ATX standard. So let us begin!

    Materials:

    With every great project there must be extensive tools, and although many case modders out there say the most important, and most of time the only, thing you will need is a dremel, these are no ordinary mods we are producing here.

    For this project we will need:

• .293" - .512" plexiglass
• 24-gauge stainless steel sheets with #4 finish on them
• Table saw with a 10” 120 carbide tooth blade
• Dual clear epoxy adhesive/Acrylic cement bonding compound
• Dremel with a 2” diamond tipped bit and various other bits
• Drill press
• Hand drill
• Rulers, pens/pencils
• Clear plastic hinges
• Nickel plated screws
• Clear screw fasteners
• Fans
• Accessories [such as fan grilles and filters]
• LEDs, lots of LEDs
• Car heater core [for the ultimate server's water cooling system
• Various plastic pipes, rods, and gizmoz
• Computer Parts

    Total cost for the cases will be in the vicinity of 150-350 US dollars.

    Now, before we go and build these things, we must consider the possibility of miscalculation and/or screw up. So we will first be building the cases completely out of hardboard, which is the same thickness as the plexiglass and costs a lot less. So if our calculations were wrong, we simply waste $8 of hardboard instead of $60+ of plexi. Once the hardboard prototypes are complete and comply with our standards, we will commence with the plexiglass final products.

    A lot of guides, background information, tutorials, detailed building instructions and other very useful/less things will appear in this section over time. The projected time for completing the cases is 2-3 months from now [April 2002].