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right guys we are not at a booth per se this is the byoc section packs in
Seattle packs in Boston packs in Texas packs in Australia all of them have like
a lan area there's the Lan free play section there's the console free play
section and there's the byc section which stands for bring your own computer
it's actually really cool I've been doing it for a little while now with some of my friends and Pax Seattle this
is the first time I have done PAX East and what we're going to check out is the
top three modded computers of the byoc section and they're pretty sick we're
going to start off with a system that is close to my heart I love fish tank
systems my like claim to fame in terms of building computers was in a fish tank
system because I feel that with oil this one is done in a different way but
equally as cool in my opinion so this system was built by polish you can see
his name in the front bottom right hand corner and is not filled with oil is not
actually filled with any liquid at all EX except for the little smaller inner
tank area which houses his fish which is named Alpha the beta which is like super
great I absolutely love that in terms of Hardware he has the Intel Core 2 Duo
anniversary edition a 960 which is reference blower cooled so that it can
get the air out of the fish tank so it doesn't just fish around on the inside
pun intended he's got fish rocks all over the place which actually helps him
hide his cables which is super smart I wish I did that with my rig it's a
really good idea also on the bottom left hand side under the rock behind the
Polish badge is a hard drive and below
that is where he hides his SSD amongst the rocks on the bottom in and outside
of the fish containing area he has little fake fish plants and the whole
thing just looks aesthetically awesome in terms of lighting he has two cathode
lights in the top which are actually hidden behind the black plastic band
among the outside which is a really cool way to do that and it's kind of hidden
under the top of the lid as well all of the I/O goes out of the top which is
probably prob what you would expect from a fish tank build and I just absolutely
love it easily one of my favorite mods I've ever seen and then you have how
it's put together so for my fish tank build which you can see up here or for
the one that we did for work way later on which you can also see up here we
used like uh laser cut plexiglass panels
what he did was actually a much more effective way in my opinion to be
completely honest he just Velcro on one of those kind of Bitcoin mining
motherboard trays that people were building for quite a while there that I
think you can get from highs speeed PC I don't know where he got his and then
yeah he just velcroed it on in terms of his motherboard to keep it in place he used a little angle bracket on the
bottom and then another little bit of Velcro on the top just to hold it in
smart effective cheap next up we actually have two computers as kind of
one feature that I'm going to cover here these were both built by a guy whose tag
is IM root or at IM root he had that
name before the Guardians of the Galaxy movie Just so you know the first one
we're going to cover is the one that looks like a red iMac this one was built
for his son it has an I3 in it a 750 Ti
an SSD and a 500 GB hard drive what's
really cool about both of these rigs is how they look very much like old IMAX
even including the fact that their front loading optical drive Bays still work
it's not actually the original Mac one it's an aftermarket optical drive bay
but it still works and it looks completely authentic which is super cool
he did it in a stack formation so there's a power supply on the bottom and
then a motherboard above that which is held up by some ready rod and then
everything just kind of sits there quite nicely in the back of the iMac in the
front he has LCD panels that he bought on eBay so these were bare LCD 1080p
panels that are 13.3 in he then used a
little custom PCB that he also bought on eBay which was shipped from China which
converts HDMI to lvds it's a converter
that costs $35 it takes 12vt in and then
is wired directly into the PSU for the 12vt rail and then just yeah you plug in
LCD lvds on one end take HDMI o to the
other end and you're good to go in order to hold the screens in place he created
what looks like a plexiglass sandwich so he has clear plexiglass on the front and
then colored plexiglass on the back behind the panel which matches the color
of the iMac so the red one has red the purple one has purple I think this is
super cool I love that he did it this year for his son and daughter in the
past he's done builds for himself and like a briefcase and one of them was in
like a super old radio and one of them was was in a long board super cool I
love guys that do rigs every year what he does because that sounds very
expensive is he just reuses the internal hardware and buil a custom case around
it very good idea next up is the Minecraft creeper build made by 8bit
Builder or also known as thorcon t h o r KO n and check out his YouTube channel
which is youtube.com/ thorcon this build
is sick I'm going to get to him in a moment but the hardware in it is an I3
4170 that's an azrock h97m ITX
motherboard a Samsung 750 series SSD as
far as I can tell and an sfx power supply the button on the side is a TNT
block which is sick all of these little individual blocks are actual small
individual blocks not just carved out of one piece of wood which is actually
pretty fantastic and some of them are translucent meaning that you can kind of
see some light coming through them so we have some white and some green ones that
have illumination all throughout the case I guess we can call it for now or
the creeper also up through the middle is where a lot of the air flow comes
from so there's fans up here that pull air down from the bottom there's a fan
that pushes air out the back and there's another big fan that can keeps it going
up through the top of the computer so this thing has no lack of air flow at
all how do you go about building these you told me you built a bunch in the past too I just use uh 2,000 I use I use
a 1in cubes about they're all wooden usually 2 to 3,000 depending on the case
and I usually actually plan it out I build it out in Minecraft actually and
then um I take a time lapse of building the whole thing up and then and so I
usually make a video of just building the whole thing from nothing to everything painting everything so so
like architectural planning is all done in Minecraft yeah you know a lot of
people are like oh you know you could get in some you know heavier editing
programs to do stuff that's like ah you know I started with Minecraft it gets
the job done I'm not doing anything crazy it it works pretty good you know some red lines for when I'm running the
electric you know where the electric goes everything and most of the computer
parts are all like almost inches anyway so it's pretty perfect it works pretty
good so what's your what's your favorite one of these that you've built um man my
favorite actually I think is the Airship uh I built a final fantasy Airship from
uh Final Fantasy 2 has spinning propellers uh and that's that's probably
that's my favorite one it's that one's pretty sweet that's sick and can people
check out that build on your YouTube channel yeah that's definitely that one's on my YouTube channel they're all
on my YouTube channel this one's not up yet but it'll be up very soon if someone
wanted to get into doing something like this what would you how would you recommend they start I'm actually for
this one I actually have I've made a video I'm making a video series I
recorded everything about each step of building this so I'm actually a little
video series going on how to actually make one of these on your own and it's
actually very simple you don't need any you just need wood glue and cubes and
very basic tools you know power tools really I built I built my first one in
an efficiency apartment no problem that's awesome and how do you go about
Distributing lighting all throughout the case for all the individual like translucent panels all right so these
all all these plastic cubes um I probably have about there's probably
about 50 on here I I have about a 12in cathod tube on each leg one in the body
and then one in the head uh usually I like to have some kind of lighting
effect because all computer mods have some kind of lighting going on so for
this one I decided to go with one inch cubes with uh some Frost fat to get the
light spread out but they're about 2 in L they're 2in long cubes so when the
lights going through the inside it hits the side of the cube and it just spres right down through the side and that's
about it that's awesome all right guys thanks for watching if you want to see
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