TBCS New Members Introductory Thread

Hello everyone,

I have been building my own PC's since the 90's, but it has always been stock cases, with stock parts. 4 years ago I saw some nice mods, but again were put together from mostly kits. Now that it it is time again to overhaul my four year old PC I came across TBCS, and I have to say, "Dam!" You all are inspirational! You make cases that are centerpieces, not foot warmers under the desk.

The other thing I see is a brotherhood where no matter what background you come from you help each other in a mostly positive way.

Thanks for sharing you excellent visions.

Erick

Goodcop says: Welcome Erick! best modding community on the planet!

Badcop says: NOW MOD SOME THING!


lol again welcome to the forums!

just made an account, been looking at a few of the custom rads and they make my new case design look noobish, so i thought id post the cad drawings to see if anyone has ideas i could use to make it look better/customize it a bit

Hi and welcome. Please feel free to post your card drawings I am sure many people will give you some great ideas.

Get out! Get out while you still can!!


Kidding, this is a great place, with lots of great people, I have yet to find an Internet community as supportive as this one. Welcome!

And remember, no matter what it is, if it looks like it did when you bought it, it can be better. :)
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Oxygen Vaporizer

Hey all. I've been into computer's my whole life and several years ago I got sick and tired of buying store bought PC's, because of all the stuff on there that i didn't need/want so I built my first PC (in the agp era) It was one of the coolest experiences I have ever had, but the tempature warning alarm going off at the first start up pretty much freaked me out :) Turns out the heatsink on the cpu wasn't seated correctly. Anyway, Its time for an upgrade. MY previous mobo is agp only :\ I got all my parts (mostly) and just need to buy the final things. I took a look at everyones mod's and am very impressed, and just looking at the work logs, I learned a lot. I'm hoping to mod a case half as good as you guys. I'm not really big on tools but might be buying a dremel today. I look forward to lending any info I know or suggestions and look forwad to posting my progress. Thanks for having me :)

Xcartguy

Thanks for telling us about your experience! You'll find no shortage of friends and advice here when you get started on your new build, and I'm looking forward to seeing your ideas. Welcome to TBCS!

Jon

Hey Guys/Gals

Thanks for having me aboard.
I can see I'm going to learn a lot from what I've seen so far.
I'm as new as you can get so I'm sure I'll be plugging for answers to help me along.
Just love plexiglass and all that can be done with it.
Thanks again.
Barry,

Hi all very new to board and to PC's.Life Long Mac guy--(still AM) but i ended up with this in a trade of all things and have grown fond of it.

Have already worked hard to figure out what the heck OC was.

Now i want build something useful and one of a kind--not a belly button kinda guy dont want what everyone else has.Seem that the Antec 900 case is a very common but well regarded piece.

Oh yes im 47 and still learning..:freakedout:

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Life Long Mac guy--(still AM)

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Your kind isn't welcome here jk.

Everybody is always learning. There's nothing wrong with that.

Hi all, found your site while looking for ideas on a new case. Never modded a case but it is definitely on the cards now! Great site, keep up the good work.

Welcome aboard! Feel free to ask questions to anyone about pretty much anything.. we try to answer as much as we possibly can, and there are no stupid questions.. only stupid.. wait, I dont want to say stupid answers, but umm.. how about it's better to ask a question and look stupid than to break something simple and prove it..?

That sounds bad too..

hey everybody =D
im Dylan d, I'm 14 years old, and i love pc modding
i first ventured into xbox 360 modding and got quite good at it
i cant even remember how many ive modded now
since the price drop, its been hard to sell a great xbox mod.
I then began modding pc's
i have completed two full projects so far.


besides being a pc enthusiast, I am a sponsored skateboarder, a spray paint artist, and a gamer.
one more thing- I get bored easily and cant stand doing nothing


ummmm
thats it... i think
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Hello IM Grim_Killer
Soon Ill be putting up a work log of a mod im doing
Which Im looking around and I haven't found any other Mozart Tx cases modded.
Im 18 and just about finished with my second build.
Been Messing with computers since I can remember, my first was a mixed computer with a cyrax processor. Surprisingly small for it being the early 90s.

Hi guys,

I am editor of leading Slovak IT print magazine called PC_Space and we want to write moooore about modding. We start separate section in our magazine and our local Slovak forum www.pcsforum.sk where we want teaching and supporting Slovak Modding scene.

Thats the message for our peple ;-)

Thanks to TBCS for inspiration. Its good work!

Geo

Hello everyone,

I joined TBCS because I like to make stuff. I have been modding stuff for a long time, since my first set of lego's I guess :)

I started modding computers about 5 years ago, but did not go farther then adding a window and top mounted fan to my crappy old case. About 6 months ago I got back into overclocking, and then water cooling, and then back into modding. I have not done anything to my computer but I made a water cooling box/stand for it I would like to show off. When I make some holes in the bottom of my case and the top of the stand then I suppose I will be modding. I am also starting a mod on my old case that I first put a window and fan in so many years ago. I will call it Mech Bay, and it will involve turning the computer into a water cooled hanger bay for my collection of mechwarrior and gundam models, when they are not out destroying the neighborhood :twisted:

For now here are pics of my gaming rig and a mecha...

Thats how my rig was about 2 months ago, before some water cooling naughtiness and the stand I just made in the last few days. I will be making a worklog for its progress towards something a little more custom and special. I shall name the project "Esuriant", because it is...

Welcome to all our new members, glad you could join us, this is an outstanding community you've stumbled across. :) Feel free to ask whatever you like, show off what you're doing or what you've already done. That's why we're all here, to some degree.

As someone here once said, "Now go mod something!!" :D

(I use this quote without the original author's consent)
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Digital vaporizer

Woops, missed this thread before I started posting.

I'm Datech, right now I'm 19 years old and I'm a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, pursuing a Computer Engineering major. For the past few years I've just been into gaming and BYOPC, but soon I plan on starting a few case mods for family and friends.

Right now I'm working as an IT manager at a company of ~100 people. I like to see myself as a jack of all trades for the time being, as I have decent skills in a variety of different areas. Since my brother and I act as Tech Support for our family (as many of you probably do), and since I love creating things and using power tools (check out my hovercraft thread) I have really been itching to get into case modding.

Hopefully I'll be an addition to this forum, and get some good knowledge from other members too.

Thanks!

hi everybody the page is ainspiration too many people.....
i m from chile , sudamerika, keep doing things like that,
be creative.

Hi guys,

I've been looking around this site for about a month, when i decided to finally join. I live in Australia and I haven't actually modded anything. I would love to, but i don't have the money and my parents probably won't let me... :(

Thanks,
Josh

Howdy guys!
new member (obv)

Hey guys. I've never really modded anything before, but I did build a computer into the wall underneath a desk in our kitchen, so maybe that counts idk.

Well, I lurked here for awhile looking at all the amazing cases and finally decided to join up.

Looking forward to being able to bounce my ideas off you guys and talking to other computer freaks. :D

I would say that counts. Welcome to the forums.

Yeah, that counts for sure! Welcome.
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FORD FIESTA

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Originally Posted by gramatton

Hey guys. I've never really modded anything before, but I did build a computer into the wall underneath a desk in our kitchen, so maybe that counts idk.

Well, I lurked here for awhile looking at all the amazing cases and finally decided to join up.

Looking forward to being able to bounce my ideas off you guys and talking to other computer freaks. :D

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Ha! Freaks we have no shortage of...but a computer built into the wall under a desk in a kitchen? May we see some pretty pictures? ;)

Hey whats up everyone, does onyone have any ideas for a unique mod i can do?

btw how do our systems get rated?

ohh nvmm i thought the green block was like some sort of indication of how good our systems are lol

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Originally Posted by raynbec

ohh nvmm i thought the green block was like some sort of indication of how good our systems are lol

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No worries, you learn all the gizmos as you go along. As for ideas, there is a whole thread of subjects here. Welcome to TBCS!

Jon

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Ha! Freaks we have no shortage of...but a computer built into the wall under a desk in a kitchen? May we see some pretty pictures? ;)

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I posted a thread for it in the your mods section for ya.

Hello guys i am new out here i am 16 years from Croatia it is a small country in Europe i love pc mods an i plan to build something at summer and as you can see in my sig that i love to play cod 4 online xD

Hello everyone. I am here under false pretences; I don't even own a computer (yet). I just like to have nice places in which to waste time, when I should be working. And lately I've developed a fascination with hardware, which naturally leads me to places like this. Bear with me if I make any terrible n00b mistakes - my last PC was a Commodore 64!

Hello new guys... Im new here too (sort of) If you have any questions just ask.

LOL, I had a Commodore 64 too...

Hello, I built my first computer last year and have been doing stuff to it ever since. I have also done many xbox 360 mods and thats what got me started on modding computers. I joined this forum so I can get help and to see all these awesome mods and things that yall do here.

Hello everyone, I found this site totally by accident and I'm glad I did. I'm always looking to learn about computers and hopefully I can learn enough to keep me out of trouble. Hope we can help each other with our little problems. Thanks in advance.:)

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Hello everyone, I found this site totally by accident and I'm glad I did. I'm always looking to learn about computers and hopefully I can learn enough to keep me out of trouble. Hope we can help each other with our little problems. Thanks in advance.:)

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"Keep you out of trouble?" the more you learn the more trouble ur in. Welcome from 1 new guy to another:banana:

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Originally Posted by ♦Cooneytay♦

Hello, I built my first computer last year and have been doing stuff to it ever since. I have also done many xbox 360 mods and thats what got me started on modding computers. I joined this forum so I can get help and to see all these awesome mods and things that yall do here.

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dont forget to post a few picts of ur mods, we all would like to see em

:DHello every one I member just here, OK glad to have made your acquaintance all of them. I from Indonesia to be precise in Tangerang city in west indonesia OK I will send myrig: brother and sister

the brother..:D

hello everyone, my name is Jason and I'm new here kinda, I've been browsing for about 2 weeks now, and I've finally built up enough courage to get my hands dirty. I have been working on PC's for about 8 years now, and I've gone threw tons of different rigs. Never once did I think of modding like this, I found this site by accident like a few others, and like them I am very glad I did. I'm currently working on Project: Sickness so watch my threads for updates daily. Thanks TBCS for giving me a new challenge!

Hi, I'm PCdeaf and yes, I'm really deaf lol. I'm currently trying to research on how to make a proper wooden case that can stores office supplies and look extremely business-like. Even though I'll be using it mostly for graphic design and gaming lol. It'll be a bit of a beast in term of sizes and non-PC features.

I'm having a bit of a difficulties trying to find info on wooden cases though. I'm currently learning how to use sketch-up and see if it is easier to use for basic mock-up than Blender3D (I'm a general beginner with modding, graphic design, and 3D modeling).

I had posted in the blenderartists.org forum about looking for a forum on modding that would talk about making a case from scratch here,
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=142178

Hopefully I can get all of the planning done soon and have my money ready by then for the entire thing. I'm planning to buy components and build up the entire PC the same time I make the case since all I have is a laptop (HP Pavillion tx1499us).

welcome PC to TBCS, Good luck on the new comp. I noticed a bit of mis-information on the blenderartists thread you linked to.
You can very easily build a wooden case without fear od electromagnetic waves running rampant and wrecking nearby devices.
Here is a link to a nicely done comp inside a wooden desk
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=74847