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The Optimus Prime PC Case Mod

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Congratulations to 36-year-old John Mangus from Pennsylvania for crafting the Optimus Prime PC case mod. This Transformer actually does transform, and stands 6'10" tall. John wins the following prizes from Cooler Master: a Centurion 532 Case worth $85, a Centurion 534 Case ($75), an iGreen 600w PSU ($130), a GeminII cooler ($45), an Xcraft 350 HDD Enclosure ($50), and even more gear.

Be sure to check out the slideshow over on the right to see the rest of the contestants from this week. There are some creative mods in there, such as a Gerbil case mod with an actual gerbil living inside, the Spiderman case mod, and several others.

Also, check out our two previous weekly winners and contestants:

• Week One: Dragon Case Mod
• Week Two: John Deer Gas Pump

For the rest of you modders out there, there's still time to enter your creation. See the case mod contest rules for entry.

Now, let's turn the mic over to John as he describes his mod:

"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.

For cooling, I used 2 120mm fans on the top of the chest and angled them to blow directly into the GPUs and CPU. It also has a 80 mm fan mounted on the backplane of the MB tray.

When I decided to paint it, I wanted to use Heavy truck colors on it. I decided to use Peterbuilt red and Freightliner blue and silver. After applying the color I shot 1 intercoat of clear with brillant fire red metalflake on the red and colbalt blue on the blue for effect. I then applied 5 coats of clear. I then sanded the entire PC done with 200 grit sand paper and buff it back to shine.

On the back of the legs are built in storage compartment that are lockable to hold your keyboard, mouse etc….

I started this mod almost a year ago and have over 300 hours into this project. Now that it is finished, I am really happy that I made it. I havent met anyone that can say they have a Optimus Prime PC in their house. Hehe.

I will also be taking this PC to Quakecon this week. If you are planning to attend Quakecon look me up. It shouldn't be hard to find me. Hehe."

System specs:

Height: 6'10"

Weight: 125 lbs

Motherboard: EVGA nForce 680i SLI

Graphics cards: (2) GeForce 8800GTS OC

Case: Custom Built Optimus Prime Case

PSU: Enermax 1000W Power Supply

RAM: 2GB (Corsair XMS2 2x1GB RAM)

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850

HDDs: (2) Western Digital RaptorX 150GB

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