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Acrylic Dragon Case Mod at CES, White-Black Case Mod

Posted on January 5, 2015

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.

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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.