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SLI Rig of the Month
Full Name: Craig Tate
Country: USA (Plano, Texas)
Handle: Tech-Daddy

Don't you call it a HEMI...

Craig's always been a fan of muscle cars, so it made complete sense for him to base his case mod on a 1969 BOSS 302 Mustang. He wanted to build a screamer of a computer, and these two themes just seemed to go together as naturally as peas and carrots.

Craig custom built the "hood scoop" (which is actually a blow hole cover, so it exhausts air instead of sucking air in...), and custom created the black striping in a vector file and had it cut in vinyl. Craig also had the internal chassis powder coated in super gloss black, and built 2 fan grills out of remote control car wheel hubs (he cut off the wheel mag from the rest of the wheel hub, and then mounted it in some acrylic that was covered in carbon fiber vinyl).

The final tie to this machine's muscle car roots is an actual air cleaner that sits over the CP heat sink and makes it look like an air manifold. Craig says the heat sink was chosen for its cooling properties as well as its "engine" look and feel: "The 4 pipes on the side looked like an exhaust manifold to me and the video cards were chosen due to their Über-sexy heat pipes…"

Craig's case also features some nifty custom lighting. In addition to the 2 red meteor lights underneath the case, the BOSS FX-57 also features a UV meteor light embedded in the 5.25 drive wall that makes the wall edge "throb" (the UV light fires thru a UV orange acrylic that is sandwiched on the outer wall of the 5.25 drive bay; its edge is exposed facing the rear of the case near the cable connectors.

With the custom paint, vinyl, lighting and amazing attention to detail, the Boss FX-57 earns honors as the SLI Rig of the Month for March.

Congrats Craig, and enjoy your reign on the "Rig of the Month" page this March!

THE SPECS:

Motherboard: NVIDIA nForce4 SLI (ECS KN1 SLI Extreme)
GPUs: 2x 6800 GTs (Gigabyte)
Power Supply: Modded Coolermaster
CPU: AMD FX-57






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