Jason put together this clock in about 4 months. He built it around a retro Russian IV-18 Nixie tube. As inspiration, he cites Adafruit’s Ice Tube Clock, but didn’t like its acrylic enclosure. He decided to improve upon it and credits John Pfeiffer for the design of the enclosure.

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The enclosure itself is great. It reminds me of some Apple computers, because of the perforated metal grills that are used in it.

I think that this clock simply look amazing. I’d love to have one in my bedroom or near my workstation.

[via Make]

Awesome stuff. For the innards, Penfold put together an Asus Rampage II Extreme motherboard, an Intel Core i7-940 chip, 6GB of 1,600MHz Corsair DDR3 memory and three Intel X25-M 80GB SSD drives in a RAID0 setup. Then he SLI’d three GeForce GTX 280s, got some PrimoChill PrimoFlex PRO LRT tubing, Aqua Computer full cover water blocks, Bitzpower fittings, a Bitspower chipset block, and lots and lots of fans and LEDs and fans with LEDs.

A lot of the parts were customized either by Penfold himself or by WCUK. Penfold also did a lot of cable organizing, some of the painting, and Fast Signs took care of the viddy well done vinyl art.

The font is just spot on. Makes me want to watch the movie again. Actually just the “Try the wine!” scene. Funny as hell. Anyway. Before the custom rig could be called Overclocked Orange, it had to be overclocked to high heavens first. The Core i7-940, which I think originally runs at 2.93 GHz was oc’ed to 4.0 GHz. Then the other stuff which I could not understand: “CPU PLL voltage to 1.895v, the QPI/DRAM voltage to 1.35v and the DDR3 to 1.65v…  increased the core speeds on the three GeForce GTX280s from 602MHz to 730MHz, the stream processors from 1,296MHz to 1,470MHz and the memory from 1,107MHz to 1,275MHz.”

After all the super fun building and spending of monies, Penfold went and shared his creation to the Custom PC forums. Internet fame ensued.

Then the BBC called him up and filmed him and his baby for a tech feature. And now Penfold and Overclocked Orange are here. A bit of a step down I suppose, but who cares about that. Publicity is publicity, and this custom rig was built to be flaunted. Our hats off to you, Mremulator.

[via bit-tech]

The new XCM Hyper Gear case for the DS Lite not only gives your handheld a new look, it turbocharges your games. See that little switch that says “N”, “1.4X” and “1.7X” in the bottom right corner? Just flip it, and your DS Lite will run at 140% or 170% of its normal speed. Presumably, it’s safe to overclock your DS Lite, but it’ll probably end up draining your battery like mad.

Now keep in mind that overclocking a handheld like the DS Lite actually speeds up your games, graphics and audio. To give you an idea of what that might look and sound like, check out this video of another speed-hacked DS Lite:

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XCM expects to release the Hyper Gear case in the next few weeks, and you’ll be able to find it at online modding retailers including Extreme Mods and Total Console.

Designed specifically for use with Gigabyte’s Odin GT power supplies, the gauge plugs into your computer’s USB port and can tell you about the power supply’s current operating temperature, wattage consumption and fan speed. Just press one of the three LED illuminated buttons on the face of the device to quickly switch between the three measurement types.

If you’re into overclocking your PC for maximum performance, and you happen to be using the right power supply, this looks like a pretty cool add-on.

[via EverythingUSB]