While you might have thought it would be riddled with bullets, or maybe involve a horse head, it’s really just a massive, powerful PC in an ornate case. Inside, a 1940 Cadillac Fleetwood spins on a turntable as Don Corleone keeps his watchful eye on the mobo, power supply and cooling system, powered by MSI and Cooler Master components.

Under the hood (of the PC, not the car), there’s an MSI Z68A-ZD80 mobo, with a Intel Core i7-2600K Quad-Core CPU, 16GB of DDR3 RAM, a pair of MSI GeForce GTX 550 Ti Cyclone II OC graphic cards, two SATA3 120GB SSDs, 1TB and 2TB hard drives, powered by a Cooler Master Silent Pro M850 power supply, and cooled with V8 and Excalibur fans.

The guys over at Case Mod Blog spotted the Godfather PC casemod at the recent Campus Party event in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The case was made by Omar Majzoub – the same guy who brought us last year’s evil-filled Chucky casemod.

Maybe it’s just me, but I expected more blood.

[via Case Mod Blog and Bahia.com]

The best part is of course the spinning mini chain gun right in front. It can be turned on and off with military toggle switches, which is a nice detail. Man I wish I had this thing on my desk to chill drinks (and fire bullets).

[via Kotaku]

The console offers up a stunning automotive grade, clear-coated finish, with gold, silver and red accents, clearly reminiscent of the original Legend of Zelda gold cartridge. Ryan says they allowed the paint to cure for a full month between steps to ensure a perfect finish. I certainly would never have that kind of patience. But paintjob aside, the very best part of the design though is the intricate pixelated Link on top.

You might assume that it was laser cut, but it was entirely done by hand, which makes it way more impressive in its level of detail and clean construction. Utilmately, it took Ryan over 50 hours of cutting, sanding and soldering to work out the light up multi-colored Link character.

The icing on the cake for this mod is the accompanying launch video clip Ryan and his pals made, working with Avid Productions 479 on the video, and Will Chiles on the original Zelda-inspired score. It’s really a loving tribute to Zelda, and shows off the console in all its glory:

Now wasn’t that special? Seems to me that all casemods should come along with such a magical launch video, don’cha think?

[Thanks for the tip, Will & Ryan!]

Designer John “Wilhelm” Dunn of the Victorian Steam Calculation Engine Company originally created this steampunk mod on commission for Sony, but is now selling the same thing as a mod for your own laptop. The primary components of the eCog Mercury include beautifully-finished birch plywood trim, retro key caps, and a grid of copper and steel “pipes” (actually wires and drawer pulls) and (non-functional) gauges which protrude from the back of the laptop’s display, which John refers to as his “boilerplate” design (also available as an iPad 2 or Nook Color case.)

The keyboard keys are encircled by solid brass bezels, and have translucent off-white keycaps which allow the keyboard’s backlighting to show through in the dark. The larger keys also have birch ply veneers, and the trackpad is surrounded by red fabric wrist rests.

If you want one of these, you’ll first need to go pick up a Sony VAIO F series laptop of your own. That’ll set you back between $1000 and $2500 (USD). Then, you’ll need the eCog mod, which costs another $1250. So this clearly isn’t a project for cheapskates. On the other hand, the end result is pretty spectacular, and I’m pretty sure even your pals with the sleekest new MacBooks will be jealous of your laptop when it’s done.

John is quick to point out that the design could be customized to your liking if you’d like to commission him to make additions or modifications to the design. Down the road, he even plans on building a steampunk goggle mod for the 3D glasses which work with the top-of-the-line VAIO Fs and other Sony 3D displays. You can see way more of John’s original mod in this video clip from Sony’s SGNL:

If you’re interested in the eCog Mercury mod for your VAIO F, head on over to Etsy for more details.

Mounted on top of LanZilla is a custom case that houses, among other things, a Thermaltake Element Q mini ITX case, a Zotac H-67 ITX Wifi motherboard, a zotac 560TI graphics card, 8GB RAM and a 120 GB SSD. It also has a 9.6v rechargeable battery to power the car.

Check out the LanZilla zipping about on the video below. Its ability to withstand bumps and falls is quite impressive.

You can check out a second video of the LanZilla if you want. No pressure. Also Stephen, I’m pretty sure this isn’t the world’s first remote-controlled PC casemod. Doesn’t make it any less awesome though! Check out Stephen’s website for his other projects.

[via GizmoWatch]

The car is a bright yellow Camaro with black stripes. The CD tray for the game discs slides out of the grill. The back window of the car is a little LCD so you can see menus and other things. Mark also customized the controllers with Autobot logos and custom yellow paint.

Unfortunately, there are no build photos that I can find on how he pulled this off. I want to know if the car still has the motors and batteries inside so it is still remote controlled. Probably not. What do you think, is this the coolest mod or what?

More photos here.

[via Major LeagueMods]

The XCM Kinect X-Light kit replaces the case of your Kinect with a clear shell, and includes 1.5 meters of electroluminescent wire. You can use this wire to add custom illumination of your design inside your now see-through Kinect, and it’s available in a color of your choice.

I’m not sure if the clear case or the EL light will have any negative impact on the Kinect’s camera or infrared capabilities, but assuming it doesn’t, the X-Light looks like a pretty cool mod. If you want one, keep your eyes peeled over at Divineo, who should start taking pre-orders any day now.

Nada’s Star Wars-inspired design incorporates a Stormtrooper helmet into the face of the case. It looks like Nada had to tweak the design of the helmet to fit it into the space, but that’s okay by me. It’s still awesome. For the time being, this is just a render of a potential mod, and hasn’t been built yet. But at least Nada won the contest and the case, so hopefully he will actually build it now.

Better yet, I think Corsair needs to call up Nada and Lucasfilm and work out a deal to produce these. Given the massive buzz that the Star Wars Xbox 360 case has gotten, I’m sure they’d sell more than a few.

[Hardware.Info via Case Mod Blog]

For some reason, the name Xbox Supreme reminds me of the old Royale with Cheese, and this console looks just as tasty. While it may have gotten its humble beginnings as a couple of original white Xbox 360s, it sure doesn’t look the same anymore after Kier worked them over.

While it is substantially larger than a stock Xbox 360, the Xbox Supreme is much less likely to give its owner the dreaded red-ring of death, thanks to a schmancy XBOX PRO Dual 40 water-cooling system to keep things nice and chilly. He then loaded up the cooling system UV Acid Green cooling fluid, and lit the whole shebang with green and UV lighting to great effect. Of course, the clear etched acrylic panel on the side lets you see all the green goodness on the inside.

Perhaps my favorite picture from the whole build is this one, showing off the comparison between the various Xbox 360 generations. Clearly, the Xbox Supreme isn’t the smallest, but it is the greenest and coolest-running of the three.

Check out the full Xbox Supreme build log over on the bit-tech forums.

But I’m being too harsh; it’s simply too much to expect anyone to fit the Gamecube’s guts into the PSP Slim’s original case. The truth is that the Fusion Micro is an awesome mod. It has two analog sticks, a Z button (it’s that small black button behind the R bumper), a toggle to switch the X and O buttons into A-B or B-A configuration and a battery, although it can only power the console for 2 hours. Here’s a closer look at the mod. It’s thickness will shock you. Or not. I just spoiled it. Dammit.

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And here it is doing what it does best:

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Awesome mod. I wonder if legal and publishing concerns really make it impossible for Nintendo and Sony to make their portable offerings play games from their older systems, because I’d rather have this than some 3D gimmick.

[via GoNintendo via Dvice]

Inside this shiny case is an Archos Vision – an mp3 player that’s also an FM radio, video player, voice recorder and flash drive – although Rockwell didn’t say which specific model or what its data capacity is. He didn’t actually mod the Archos Vision, just placed it in a very well-made case. I think the only functional parts of the front cover are the buttons, which as you may have guessed control the device encased within. Rockwell says the case can be easily opened to remove the MP3 player when you need to charge or connect it to a computer.

You can order the Pocket Music Library from Will Rockwell’s Etsy shop for $350 (USD). Yeah it’s pretty expensive, even when you take the bundled headphones, USB connector and fancy tin case into account. That being said, it is a one-of-a-kind device. The fact that the case and player are separate means you can easily replace the latter if it ever breaks, so that adds to the longevity of the case. Still, for that price I’d expect the gauges to work.

[via Uberreview]

These pics were snapped by Martin Blass over at BabeTech at this year’s Deutsche Case Mod Meisterschaft (DCMM) in Germany, and show a computer case that looks like it belongs on a model railway.

Unfortunately, there aren’t any details posted about the mod, other than the fact that it was made by Hungary’s Fresli János, and it’s called the “Nohab PC” – presumably named after this Diesel-Electric train. But that’s okay. The pictures say it all. It’s a computer inside of a train, and in my book, that’s way cooler than your average desktop PC.

Here’s another pic I found of the Nohab PC, where you can see that it even has little lights in the front of the train above the DVD tray.

And if you feel like sitting through an hour of yawn-inducing Hungarian, you can see a bit of Fresli’s mod work log here.

[via Case Mod Blog]

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of info about what’s inside, but we do know that it has a Core i7 1366 processor and that the frame is hand made, welded, powder coated and completely built from scratch. It took 4 months of work to finish. That’s probably faster than Starfleet can build one. Then again, Starfleet has to do a lot more then slap a computer inside.

Apparently he made it back in 2007, according to the image, but it just showed up in the forum. All of the detail work is pretty amazing. I would love to see what he could do with a Klingon Bird of Prey or a Romulan ship. Sure, I would have made the nacelles on the bottom more angular myself, but who am I to judge? This mod is awesome. Great work Onizuka.

The HAF X Mini Bike casemod is actually both a fully-functional gaming PC and a gas-powered mini bike, capable of carrying its builder along for a ride.

Built by René Grau from CM Storm, the system is based on an CoolerMaster HAF X chassis, with an Intel Core i5 CPU, and a 4GB GeForce GTX460 graphics card, running on a Mini-ITX mobo. Storage is provided by a 300GB SSD, so the guy who built it doesn’t have to worry about bumps in the road damaging a hard drive. It also sports dual exhaust and a two-stroke engine, with a top speed of about 40MPH – unusual stats for a PC.

Looking for proof that it actually works as a PC, and as a bike? Look no further than this video clip, which shows it handling double-duty.

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What’s the last time you saw someone pouring gasoline into their computer? And before you even ask – no, you can’t use the system while riding – unless you’ve got a really long extension cord.

[via Case Mod Blog]

Bachmeier went to great lengths to supersize the iPhone 4 both proportionally and in terms of functionality. For example, the iTableous has a 5.7-megapixel HD camera right where the front-facing camera on a real iPhone 4 would be. The speakers are also situated at the lower end of the case, again in the same spot as a real iPhone 4′s speakers. The iPhone’s sleep button also serves as the iTableous’ power switch. Other notable parts include the Home button, which hides a 30-pin connector to connect a real iPhone (and other iOS devices) and the micro-SIM cover, which you can open to take a peek at the guts of the PC inside.

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Speaking of the guts, the iTableous is powered by a 2 GHz Zotac Ionitx with 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD. Connections include a line-in port, one USB 2.0 port (just like an Apple computer!), a SuperDrive, two HDMI ports and a DVB-T antenna cable. The iTableous makes up for its lack of multi-touch capabilities by its elegant swinging function (aided by an accelerometer,) which lets Benjamin use it in a more traditional viewing set up.

Check out Benjamin’s website for more pictures and info. I wonder if he can use something like the Duo to add touch functionality to the iTableous.

[via InsanelyMac Forum]

We’ve featured Computer Choppers’ exquisite craftsmanship on a pre-unibody MacBook Pro before, but which millionaire in his right mind would want a previous generation golden laptop? It just doesn’t make sense! From what I understand, this time only the case has been coated with 24k gold. The keyboard and trackpad are merely “color matched”, whatever that means. It’s still quite a piece of work though. The company also claims that no special care is needed when handling the golden laptop because the plating is scratch-proof. It’s the opposite of thief-proof though.

Just like the ordinary models that Apple sells for unwashed middle class peons, the 24k gold plated MacBook Pros are available in 13″, 15″ and 17″ versions. Pricing starts at $5,000 (USD), but who cares about that. Have your people call Computer Choppers‘ people so they can work something out.

[via Chip Chick]

Yep, that is indeed an Atari 2600 with 24k gold plating. The godfather of gaming looks good in gold doesn’t it? Let’s take a closer look at the golden joystick:

I wonder if its still functional. The casemod was made by Urchin Associates (scroll to the bottom of the page to see the post) back in 2009 as part of a project called “Gold Mine, All Mine”.

[via it8bit]

Aside from the typewriter, the mod also has a couple of other pieces ancient equipment. The mouse for instance, is a repurposed Morse code telegraph key, and the 56K modem is made up of old telephone parts. And it has a floppy drive.

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It’s a shame the video doesn’t show the computer in action, although I did find the screenshot below on the Mac Store’s imgur page. Apparently Mac OS 7.5 was released in the Victorian Era, because that’s what this computer is running. It has a word processor, a calculator, a spreadsheet program and even a flight simulator and Tetris.

As you heard in the video, the mod is on exhibit at The Mac Store in Eugene, OR. I hear the second generation of the Steampunk Mac is going to have one USB 1.1 port and will run OS X Garfield.

[via GizmoWatch]

This LEGO computer not only looks cool and runs fast, it’s being used as a folding farm to help with medical research.

Mike Schropp built this awesome beast of a machine using about 2000 individual LEGO bricks, but it’s what’s on the inside that’s equally as impressive. Under the hood of this machine are a trio of overclocked quad-core Sandy Bridge 2600k CPUs, mounted into ASUS P8P67 Micro ATX mobos, and chilled by Thermaltake Frio CPU coolers.

So basically, what you’re looking at here are three complete computers in a single box. In addition to the CPU coolers, it’s got 8 Aerocool fans to keep the temp under control. Amazingly, the whole 12 core system runs on a single Antec 1200 high current power supply. It’s really an impressive rig, even if it weren’t made from LEGO bricks.

While it’s primarily used for the medical research, Mike admits that he also uses the computers inside for use in his own home as well.

To read more about the build and to see more pictures showing how Mike’s LEGO folding farm PC came together, head over to Total Geekdom.

Over the years, the company released a variety of machines, with the last being the A7000 series,  first released in the mid-1990s. While the A7000 and its later A7000+ models were fairly substantial desktop systems, one modder figured out a way to turn the A7000+ into a portable.

Derbyshire, UK modder Sam took the old RISC OS based computer and managed to make a rather nice little portable system with it. Sure, it's a little boxy, but to put things firmly into perspective, this is what an Acorn A7000+ originally looked like.

Impressed now, right? I sure am. Dubbed the A7Kp, Sam's A7000+ portable is built into a case made from MDF, with a 10.4" front-panel LCD set behind a layer of clear perspex. It uses an original A7000+ mobo, with the circuitry necessary to run it on an internal 9.6v NiMh battery. Yes, this thing truly is portable. It'll run for just under 3 hours on a full charge. Warning, gory insides splayed out ahead...

Wait, that wasn't gory at all. As a matter of fact, it's one of the tidiest custom builds I've laid eyes on. Nice job keeping things so neat and clean. I bet the original A7000+ didn't look that nice under the hood.

Other updates include 4GB of flash-based storage, and a modern keyboard and mouse. Sam says he mostly uses the A7000+ plus for classic games like Lemmings, Lemmings 2, Zool and Overload, and that there are tons of old 16-bit Acorn titles that play on the system.

Sam worked on the mod over a period of about 7 months, although he says that if he had worked on it straight through, it would have taken about a month and a half. Regardless, it looks like it was well worth the effort. Check out more details on the build over at Sam's Modifications. Can I please have a portable Atari ST now?

[via Bacteria's Site]