Extreme Tech recently held a contest asking people to design their own type of casing for their personal computers. 36-year-old John Mangus from Pennsylvania won first place in this contest by modeling his PC case to resemble G1 Optimus Prime. Check out the article and the pictures of the winning PC case.
"This Optimus Prime PC mod is made out of aluminum from ranges of 14 ga to 1/4" material and formed and tig welded. It stands 6'10" tall while in transport mode. When I was designing this PC I wanted it to transform in some way or another. It is a Transfomer, what kind would it be if it did not transform. So, I made it transform into a much smaller desktop form. The hands are from casts I made from my own hands. I thought it would be cool to have something of me built into the mod. I used a slideout motherboard design for the MB mounting and external PSU mounted in a custom enclosure mounted on the back. It also has a 7" LCD sreen mounted in the waist to watch movies or such. I made the Autobot Matix center out of a solid peice of brass then milled it on my lathe to accept a 7" blue plasma disk and mounted on a 1/4" aluminum frame and polished it to a mirror shine".
Optimus Prime Wins PC Case Contest
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Posted by alldarker Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:09 pm
Motto:
"Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici"
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Congratulations to John Magnus... Seriously though, when I first read this topic title, I thought this would be a story about a court case being won by Optimus Prime / Hasbro over being politically correct!
I'm so meta, even this acronym...
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Posted by Liege Evilmus Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:13 pm
I hope this makes mass production.
Also, John Magnus, very fitting!
Also, John Magnus, very fitting!
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Posted by Megatron Wolf Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:15 pm
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Saber Blade
Cool.
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Posted by Raymond T. Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:34 pm
Erm... His name is MaNGus, not MaGNus...Liege Evilmus wrote:I hope this makes mass production.
Also, John Magnus, very fitting!
You don't think they'll repaint it White and Blue, do you?!
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Posted by Windracer Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:33 pm
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"There's no relief in bitterness, may as well let it die."
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Electric Cannon
Oh my god... That... is AMAZING.
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Posted by rebelprime Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:13 pm
this guy had to be a very talented craftsman that is awsome
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interesting, I wonder if he has issues with drivers.
Posted by i_amtrunks Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:38 pm
Very nice effort.
It's also somewhat useful!
It's also somewhat useful!
Awesomesauce; Use it, you know you want to.
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Posted by Elita One Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:44 pm
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"I will chop your head off!- Axe Cop"
Weapon:
Armor Axe
The coolest PC case Ive ever seen. Makes the ones with the fancy neon lights and clear cases look lame.
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Posted by Jetfire Masta Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:06 pm
Dude, that is awesome. Make my case look like crap =(
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