One year ago , some Popular Mechanics editors set out with the broad finish of make the most ridiculously extravagant PC mod they could . Thisis what they came up with .
PopMech ’s quad - core animal is charge with just the kind of pricy hardware you ’d gestate from such a flamboyant mod—4 GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3 RAM , a GeForce GTX 280 graphic card , two 300 Great Britain , 10,000RPM VelociRaptor HDDs , and an Antex kilowatt superpower supply — all focus on around an 3.0 - gigacycle Intel Core 2 Quad processor . It ’s the case , though , that ’s the principal of the show .
The master bodily structure of the desk is made up of two monumental panels of acrylic , bolted to a custom - build up aluminium frame . A glycol liquid cool down system snake through the whole of the machine , intercept off to suck heating away from both the main processor and the graphics bill . Built into the top is a custom - built Synaptics touchpad — a mostly useless but nonetheless cool design tucket .
PopMech has included a short how - to with their story , but it ’s less of an instructional guide than a period - by - pointedness summary of why you ca n’t build one of these yourself . [ PopMech ]
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