My piece on casemodding from this month's Wired magazine is online:
MODDER: Rainer Wingender
Manager, BITS-Consulting
Siegenburg, GermanySPECS: left side: 1.8-GHz AMD XP Thoroughbred 2200, 512 Mbytes RAM, Nvidia GeForce4 graphics card, 110-Gbyte hard disk, DVD-ROM; right side: 450-MHz AMD K6-2, 256 Mbytes RAM, 44xCD, CD-RW, 40-Gbyte hard disk.
COST: $1,000 in cooling plates, exhaust, intakes, and gauges; $2,000 in computer components
TIME: 250 hours over three months
INSPIRATION: "A 1971 Ford Mustang I owned when I was 18. If you've ever driven a V-8, you know the feeling."
CHALLENGE: "Designing good-looking feet. Early tries seemed too small, but when I added the punched bars, it balanced just right visually."
