Hot Hammerhead Case Mod Costs $2,900
This is probably the sexiest PC case we’ve ever seen.
We’ve seen a lot of incredible mods over the years, and the most disappointing thing about all of them is that there’s usually only one ever made. Case-in-point: This one-of-a-kind case mod we spotted at CES.
The latest in drool-worthy cases that only one of us can have comes from former racecar designer and engineer, Matthew Kim.

This is the Hammerhead 98902 PC. Sure, it’s got the usual suspects, like LED lights and exposed fans, but with its panels of Ecoresin plastic and CNC machined anodized blue aluminum, this is a case like no other. Kim says the components are all easily accessible because they’re attached to a true frame, which makes the PC easily modifiable and quickly adjustable, just like a racecar.
Rather than just selling the case by itself, Kim is selling the Hammerhead as a full Core-i7 PC. Full specs are listed below:
- Blue CNC brushed and anodized aluminum frame
- Supermatte White Ecoresin panels with Mil-Spec quick release system(motherboard side only)
- 2.8Ghz Intel Core i7-860 cpu
- 4 Gb ram
- 1 40 gb Intel solid state disk drive
- 1 640 Gb front loaded "hot-swappable" hard drive
- 1 extra hot-swap tray for a second hard drive
- nVidia ENGTX460 graphics card
- Optical CD/DVD drive
- Kingston 750W modular power supply
- Windows 7 64-bit Home premium
Kim says he noticed how little the average PC had changed over the last 20 years when the time came for him to buy a new computer for himself.
“I mean, apart from a few models, they were all rectangular boxes, having the same tired internal layout with endlessly uncreative cosmetic variations,” he says. “So I decided to design and build something special on my own, combining my experience as an architect and engineer. I wanted to design something that would change the way people think about computers - a technological jewel, rather than an ordinary box, destined for a life of dusty obscurity. I wanted people to look at it and ask "ooh, what is that?" with a curious smile.”
Check out his website, Darwin Machines, for more on his modding projects or to buy the Hammerhead 98902 PC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJuWDsJkYLc
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/blackmesa_mod.jpg
Its rusty, broken down and the liquid cooling system glows a radioactive green thanks to a UV light and UV sensative liquid.
That or a case that is black with a nice amount of blue LED fans lighting the room and internals up. I love seeing inside my PC. Lets me see my awesome work being awesome.
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/blackmesa_mod.jpg
Its rusty, broken down and the liquid cooling system glows a radioactive green thanks to a UV light and UV sensative liquid.
That or a case that is black with a nice amount of blue LED fans lighting the room and internals up. I love seeing inside my PC. Lets me see my awesome work being awesome.
Now, that is a case mod I would buy.
me too
Me 3. I like the Steampunk mods the best. The HL 2 case is awesome as well.
The last cool case I saw posted was that one made out of concrete...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Concrete-PC-Case-Mods-D-Heisse-Concretronic-Best-Case-Scenario,11676.html
...so I guess that says a lot about where I sit on the aesthetic spectrum ... and we all know there's no accounting for taste (you'd have to pay me to have that god-awful half-life case on my desk). Still, I was surprised at the near-unanimous thumbs-down this PC got here, so I just had to rant...
Anyway, I give this guy a lot of props for thinking outside the box in terms of the component layout, and thinking "architecturally" (as in the kind of architecture that I think of when I think of modern stuff - like PC hardware). Having the back-panel of the MB pointing down so you don't ever see it is great. Autocad Inventor and McMaster-Carr FTW on this one. In fact, I'd be tempted to get one if I could get it w/o all the electronics. OTOH, I'm pretty handy with Autocad / industrial design / materials sourcing myself, perhaps it's time for me to do my own "perfect" design.
Cheers,
CList
that said, its a KINGWIN not a KINGSTON power supply