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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".

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 hope this makes mass production.

Also, John Magnus, very fitting!

Cool.

I want one ^^

That is SO cool.

Liege Evilmus wrote:I hope this makes mass production.

Also, John Magnus, very fitting!

Erm... His name is MaNGus, not MaGNus...

You don't think they'll repaint it White and Blue, do you?!

O_O *jaw drops* geez... amazing.

I'd buy that.

Oh my god... That... is AMAZING.

Not to be mean, but that dude probably spent more making that sucker than the value in prizes he got. My god I hope he gets noticed for that. I'd be mad if that's all I got for an award! hehe...

that thing looks so cool.

this guy had to be a very talented craftsman that is awsome

So Prime runs on Windows Vista. interesting, I wonder if he has issues with drivers.

Very nice effort.
It's also somewhat useful!

The coolest PC case Ive ever seen. Makes the ones with the fancy neon lights and clear cases look lame.

Dude, that is awesome. Make my case look like crap =(

Neato!