I saw this thing, and all I could think of was the loser snot nosed punks who put neon lights on their 98' Acura Integra. I'm sure it was a nice concept in their heads, but the idea is outdated, and makes you look as hip as an MTV reality TV show. By now, everyone has to know that desktops are a dying breed. Wow, you modded a PC to save space. You know what I did, I bought a Mini-notebook. Good luck lugging that flux capacitor of a computer around places. Yeah, needless to say, this thing gets the EPIC FAIL stamp from me. Why was this even posted on Gizmodo? Is this the creation of one of the writers retarded cousin and they posted this story for a sense of assurance? Next time buy the kid a hooker and a Best Buy gift card, and spare us from this bullshit.

deadhouseplantz

Yeah, this really pwns the new asus and acer gaming desktops. Really, k thx.

Okay, this is stupid. Only thing worse would be a case mod of a cabbage patch doll into a 1337 gaming machine with a 2600barton and a 5200 geforce, and can't forget the creative audigy card!

tehronin

I fail to see how this was ever an iMac.

gamecrazychris

@Mr.DuckSauce: I think it's to save heat instead of space. A high powered graphics card and power supply put out a lot of heat. Might as well not stick them in the same metal box.

Pope John Peeps II

Nice way to save space I see, but the powersupply is a danger zone if not protected.

Mr.DuckSauce

@OMG! Ponies!: LMFAO, you almost had me in tears.

I suggest mounting a screen in the side of a desktop tower, it mite take up less space.

Jakus

3500+? 6800GT?? that crap is in my 4 year old laptop. Looks like by the time the owner finished this thing it was already seriously outdated in terms of a "gaming PC"

davidfbecker

You know why Mac owners don't do this? Because it makes your computer look like shit.

Your name is not Neo. You do not live on a spaceship flying threw the sewers of old New York with Laurence Fishburne and your girlfriend doesn't do kung fu with guns while wearing fetish gear.

Get over it.

OMG! Ponies!

"More seriously, the all-in-one design is really all the Hybred shares with the iMac, because as you'll see this is one serious gaming rig.

Woah, for a second there I thought it might be 2004 again.

Then I remembered that the 24" iMac has a Core 2 Duo at 3.06ghz and an 8800GS; on top of that, it is an actual all-in-one (PSU included), and not ugly as sin.

regnez

@xboxishuge: BTW -- Willek did complete this mod over a year ago, so it wasn't quite so slow at the time.

technabob

The iMac wets itself? The iMac would beat the hell out of this thing.

3500+ and 6800GT... My 5 year old computer has those.

CJCS

yeah, i hate to say it, because it obviously took a lot of time and effort, but the end result is pretty, well, horrific. i'd be interested to see anything beyond, say, v3.0, though.

cloudnine

that's like a bizarro iMac, FUGLY

BiZarRroBALlmeR

Yeah, I've gotta throw my 2¢ in and say that this is one fugly rig.

StrangeTikiGod

Oh, cool, and Athlon 3500+ and a 6800GT. Good to know that it's slow as shit, in addition to being ugly as sin.

xboxishuge

@OMG! Ponies!: Thanks. You just ruined all my dreams.

SomeoneUKno

the frame from the photo looks ike its made from wood nd not aluminum (and that being the case, i think it looks terrible on he front)

the back however...wowza.

jrghoull

@Rick36: In-store toilets also keep their expresso machines well stocked...

frigg???

ummmmm.... it's all been said.

Ugly.... check.
Outdated parts.... check.
LEDS from a high-schooler's Acura.... check.
Matrix dreams fulfilled.... sure, I guess?

I'm pretty sure the inferiority complex lies some where in that room.

oo0cyst0oo

It is butt ugly as well!

Rick36

@mferrari: They have toilets for the customers?

Rick36

I only go to Starbucks when it's nearby and I have to take a shit.

mferrari

Speak and spell keyboard?

sisedi

Wow some gaming rig, it doesnt have shit on the imac, the imac has 1000x the specs of that thing. An 6800 is so old, my grandma has one in her computer, and an amd 3500+ are you joking, u cant even play online games with that shit. Sure it glows red like its on fire, but then again it should be on fire, its a piece of junk!

HawkSkater0

@Rob C: It is marketed as espresso, but, as Starbucks is basically a Dunkin Donuts shop in denial, expresso is closer to the mark.

We Americans are not as stoopid as you believe.

OMG! Ponies!

@Rob C:

No need to flame, man.

man_in_gauze

DUDE THIS SO SO AWES--wait, Athlon processor? Fail.

man_in_gauze

@frigg???:
That would be "Espresso," idiot. Stupid americans.

Rob C

Über fugly.

iMac is laughing it's ass off!

paja

@Rob C: "That would be "Espresso," idiot. Stupid americans."

"Americans" should be capitalized, idiot. Stupid hermaphrodites.

@OMG! Ponies!: I am a particularly bad speller, so much so that I am no longer certified to spell on behalf of my country. While there's something kind of emancipating about spelling as a free agent, it's not for everybody. You give up a lot. Think Into The Wild except instead of hiking by yourself into the Alaskan wilderness, you're basically spelling on your own.

frigg???

@deadhouseplantz:

lol al forms of tech are dying breed in some way or another. i personally plan on putting together a high end gamng PC and run it remotely in my house from a laptop. they're cheapr than laptop machines and they are easier to put together as well as easier to replace the parts in.

in a couple hundred years we'll probaby have something along the lines of the famous ps9. until then though we're going to continue to invent new stuff, only to make it udated technology a few years later.

jrghoull

Why are you guys getting your panties in a bunch about this modded PC? Sure this thing is so outdated and asthetic-wise, its not the prettiest thing to look at, but this modder did something creative on something he enjoyed using.

grald

Really are you that anti-Apple that you had to post this POS and try to downplay the iMac???

I'm not a apple fanboy, I own 3 laptops one with XP, one with Ubuntu, and one is a Macbook.

This thing is ugly and useless. I might have given it props, I mean props to the guy who built this I guess, but the way it was presented makes me dislike it from the get go.

Seriously get over the comparisons when something just doesn't compare, for better or worse.

jod806

Does anyone else get flashbacks of themselves, age 7? You've torn your families DOS apart, and had it running on top of your ninja turtles covered bunk? I guess we are calling that a "mod" now.

HaLfRiCa

@frigg???: I'm a lawyer by trade and I've never put my faith in the F7 button. When it comes to spelling and grammar, I'm a bit of a perfectionist, which is fitting for my job which, as far as appeals are concerned, entails submitting a 15,000 word argument to a panel of judges.

Moreover, I think of my professional writing like playing poker. When my adversary gets a 20-page motion with 200 pages of supporting exhibits, printed on redline bond paper, and velobound, it makes them take notice. When they see that it is free of spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors, that just sort of underscores the painfully blunt arguments and aggressive-but-conversational tone which I am known to employ. There is a head game that is all too often lost.

Plus, being ironic is better than being a grammar nazi.

OMG! Ponies!

This is a monstrosity

ferrdidly

According to the Tom's Hardware VGA guide, the 2600 is better than the 6800GT. No 8800GS needed!

e-friend

@Manator (Follow me and die!): It's a CASEmod. It's about the CASE, not the hardware. What the fuck?

Also, those of you bloviating about how attractive your Macs are... Listen... Macs kind of look like crap. You basically walk around with a smudge-and-scratch attracting white plastic box that kind of looks like a giant case of eyeshadow, or a huge girl's pencil-case. The aluminum ones are slightly better.

Granted they look better than MOST other laptops, but that's not saying much. Most laptops are fugly.

Pope John Peeps II

Nice to see the mac diehards rip this to shreds.

I think it LOOKS pretty badass in the dark - but as others have nicely pointed out, bad hardware on the inside. Maybe if this was blue or green it'd get more love.

Good job Mr Kyrö, I salute you.

Manator (Follow me and die!)

Inferiority complex? Really? You mean, in the same way that Joseph Merrick gives Megan Fox an inferiority complex, right?

Agent007

just putting the PS out, very basic solution to a complex problem, yet so elegant

congrats!!!

Crescent

@davidfbecker:
Beat me to it..hehe

Case looks seriously badass, though.

aR-Tard

Hmm I like the idea of keeping the power supply separate. Probably keeps the whole thing much cooler.

Crowbot

to the author of the post:
if you were trying at sarcasm, you failed.
otherwise, you're a moron and need an editor.

jaydot

I love a good case mod :D

JuiceDaddy

This casemod is like 4 or 5 years old. metku.net has done a few more modes since then.

Archavious

@Rob C: Crazy that we took a word from another language and translated it into something that fits more in line with the English language...

monkeybars

@jaydot:
To the author of this comment:
If you were trying to get a star, you failed.
Otherwise, you're a moron and will likely be baninated.

Hanzo

its okay i guess... wait
*takes second look*
RED RING OF DEATH!!!!!!!!
run run roll

exobite

wow, i did a compaq presario 915us/to/atari2600 mod and i thought it was pretty damn shitty..

dfc849

Published: 12.09.2006

At the time the hardware was quite usable so stop comparing it to something you have today. Thank you.

Japala

The lengths some people will go to so they don't have to admit to needing a night light... just sad.

zenmoused

If it were green, it would look almost Borg.

eddiesdguy

Damn it, casemods deserve more respect than this.
anything on www.modshop.net is better than this.
i mean its impressive, but definetly not as much as something like the doom 3 case.

roflwaffles

then the imac gets its macpro brother in the this POS explodes.

halcalanky

@Pope John Peeps II: I just put plastic stars on mine; it's adorable!

Karinabob

@Japala: Fine, I got my imac in september 2006, and it has a core 2 duo @2.16 ghz, and an ATI radeon X1600, both of which are about 10x as good as that hardware, so my stuff is 2 months older, and it has 10X the hardware.

HawkSkater0

Well, the article is from 12.09.2006

Y2KGTP

Soooooooo much work put into this... then the world's CRAPPIEST keyboard and mouse thrown in after the fact/

elephantattack

Does anyone proof read anymore?

sned

@Jakus: True but then again your screen would take some serious heat. Liquid cooling would help but in end the heat wins.

SneakerFiend

I think a single-piece gaming rig would defeat the purpose anyway, even if it was top of the line. I want my rig to be a huge, towering monolith with lasers that destroy all other rigs that venture near.

Sniperpackage

@OMG! Ponies!: Yeah, Mac users don't mod their Macs, or fabricate new cases for them. No, never.

Believe it or not, some people have different tastes than you, and some people have fun just designing and building this kind of thing. Sounds like you're the one who needs to get over it.

HeartBurnKid

@CJCS: Uh, didn't both of those come out late 2004/early 2005... as in, 3.5 years ago? 5 years ago would still be in the P4/Athlon XP era.

I have to admit, though, it's kind of hilarious that Giz just made a news article about a mod from two years ago.

Ubik2501