They were both off-the-shelf cases, modded without any fancy equipment or expensive materials, just acrylic, paint, and time. My two favorite case mods were Macroblack by Macroman, and Bliss Unleashed by DDK. Some people were good, and some were bad, but the overall quality was much lower. When I did my first AT tower mod, it was a new hobby. Then I got an Athlon 64 and a nice Coolermaster case, and that was it for modding for a couple years. A common theme was that I didn't have the tools or experience to do decent metalwork or cut acrylic, so I'd inevitably screw a mobo tray onto a piece of fiberboard or something stupid like that. Cooled me off for a little, and then I went on a series of scratch-build misadventures. After that, I got a new computer with a 'pre-mod' (back when there was still a distinction) case, which meant multicolored LEDs in the front and a pre-cut window. I had some thin tape, and masked off some nice stripes. I cut a window (no small task, as it was an full tower of heavy duty steel and I didn't have the proper tools) and gave it a nice coat of silver paint, then did blue accents by hand. It's the blue and silver one I was proud of. I did one up in blue and silver, the other in red and gold.

This isn't the first case mod I've done, but it's the first that meets two serious criteria:įirst time I ever did any modding, it was the winter of 2002 to 2003.

Power mac g5 case mod