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neyx
09/18/08, 01:06 AM
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n265/neyxish/dark%20blade/extremepc.jpg
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n265/neyxish/dark%20blade/extremepc11.jpg

The great maker and designer of Dark Blade:
This personal computer is insanely beautiful. Gianluca (also known as G69T) calls himself an "old modder" and demonstrates that even a husband and the father of a splendid child can lose hours and nights planning and then creating an ambitious mod.

Dark Blade - The Creation:
Started in the autumn of 2004, wasn't finished until the end of 2006. Every detail is unique the power buttons were crafted by Gian himself. The case mod was suppose to be a simple evolution of one of his previous mods, the "G69T Classic." All he wanted to do was add a new module (Water Station) positioned under the previous system. And then the Dark Night was born.

Imagine yourself playing or working with a PC like this :D. Life can truly get sweeter and sweeter.
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Mods like Gianluca who intend to bring PC Case *Modding to the next level. Opens the world's eyes for us to see that our home PC's or Gaming PC's are made to be like a Hot Rod Concept and not just another boring work station PC.

People are gathering around dark night and some wanted to buy this piece of art for more than £50,000 around the time when it wasn't even done yet.

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*Modding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modding) - is a slang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang) expression that is derived from the verb "modify (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/modify)". The term can refer to the act of modifying a piece of hardware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware) or software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software) to perform a function not originally conceived or intended by the designer.

Sources:
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=184604
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=76374&pp=20
http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2007/10/24/dark_blade_part_1/1

cmo
09/18/08, 01:18 AM
Wow, it looks like a robot! :)

Btw, where is the monitor?

neyx
09/18/08, 02:23 AM
Wow, it looks like a robot! :)

Btw, where is the monitor?

Oh that is just the desktop but it's more of a server :D. Its just a case modding. It can be plugged with sata drives and one dvd slot, lots of usb's. Then underneath is a water cooling station. The robot-like stand is the Dark Blade support. by the look of it, I don't think it would look well fitted in any other desks but only on it's own support stand.

The power buttons are unique, it has an on/off button for the neon lights in the water station and case, restart button, dvd open close button, power button, power activity button, hdd activity button. The four rectangular panels are the ThermalTake T-type temperature indicators. Two for each water station (in/out temp.), it has 2 water blocks. So the case is really more of a Computer Server.

Mode for the 4 thermal sensors:
1. CPU
2. CPU water circuit.
3. GPU
4. GPU water circuit.

Plus it has a hard disk anti-vibration system. Really cool case. It's like the Ferrari of PC cases.

Here's a pic of the buttons:
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n265/neyxish/dark%20blade/G69T_DBNP341K_L.jpg

Here's the pic of the Dark Blade case without its support and its cooling system:
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n265/neyxish/dark%20blade/sword.jpg
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n265/neyxish/dark%20blade/support.jpg
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n265/neyxish/dark%20blade/G69T_DBNP582_L.jpg
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n265/neyxish/dark%20blade/G69T_WS375_L.jpg

The back of Dark Blade:
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n265/neyxish/dark%20blade/G69T_DBNP576_L.jpg