Case mods are easily some of the most exciting content at tradeshows. Although they're generally commissioned for suites and booths, case mods ultimately provide a content opportunity that's strictly centered around what got us all interested in system building: beautiful design and assembly. It feels more neutral to cover a case mod.
At MSI's CES 2015 suite on Sunday, we took a break from filming their monstrous gaming laptops, black & white motherboards, and headsets for long enough to shoot footage of neutral ground: Case mods.
Two separate mods were designed independently by James Fislar and Xotic PC, the former using a from-scratch acrylic dragon case setup, the latter custom painting an In-Win S-Frame enclosure. Fislar's mod used custom-cut acrylic dragon heads and careful red/blue illumination among the base of the unit. The enclosure was outfitted with an MSI X99 ACK motherboard, 32GB of HyperX Predator DDR4 memory, a HyperX 3K SSD, Intel HW-E CPU, and 2xGTX 980 4G video cards.
Adjacent to the red/white masterpiece towered Xotic PC's "Elysium," a custom-painted take on In-Win's S-Frame case. The case is usually a raw aluminum finish, but the company opted for a white coat instead, then fitted the PC with a white plated video card, white accented motherboard, white accented RAM, white accented heatsink, and more.
We'll let the photos & video do the talking.
- Steve "Lelldorianx" Burke.