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.
- Build Your Own,
- hot ,
- hammerhead ,
- case ,
- mod ,
- racecar
- Bethesda Says RAGE Demo Unlikely
- Duke Nukem Forever Date Confirmed for May
- Here Are the Winners of Dec. SBM Contest PCs
- Nvidia Revealing Tegra 3 at MWC Next Month?
- Apple's Giving its Customers a New Kind of Screw
- MSFT Launches Web Reality Show About IT Pros
- Breaking: Apple Files Touchscreen Mouse Patent
- IBM Teams Up With ARM for 14-nm Processing
- AVADirect Adds Sandy Bridge Laptops, Desktops
- What It's Like Watching a Computer Illiterate
- Next-Gen Intel Chipsets To Support USB 3.0
- Love PCs? Love Helping? Donate Just One Dollar
- AMD: OpenGL 4.1 Arrives On Windows, Linux
- AMD Shipped Over 1 Million Fusion APUs
- Phone Disguised as Keyboard Can Hack Computer
- A Comical Look at the State of the Internet
- Blizzard Officially Responds to World of StarCraft
- Eurocom Claims 'Most Powerful 15" Notebook'
Va Va VOOMMM......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJuWDsJkYLc
I think it is ugly
To each thir own. Some may think the standard rectangle is triffe but in reality it has more options than this would. I still love the HL2 case made a while back:
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/im [...] sa_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.
Why would anyone pay $2900 for such an ugly case?
Looks cool reminds me of portal
Look out Apple...there is a new overpriced component out there.
Tomorrow we'll be hearing news that Apple suddenly increased the price of their lowest end computers to $2901
I think it's ugly too.I don't think anyone is going to pay $2900 for getting this.
$2900 is rather hefty, but the actual case looks quite nice in my opinion.
You guys should get him to send ya one for review, i wouldnt mind seeing the case reviewed for a build
Also its a Kingwin power supply not a Kingston they only make memory stuff afaik, if anyone was wondering
To each thir own. Some may think the standard rectangle is triffe but in reality it has more options than this would. I still love the HL2 case made a while back:
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/im [...] sa_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.
I think it is ugly
me too
me too
Me 3. I like the Steampunk mods the best. The HL 2 case is awesome as well.
i like how the PSU is situated outside the case..
Guy's, there is allot value in great industrial design. $2900 is not overpriced for this as a complete system. If your happy a beige box then that is great buy that but great industrial design has it's purposes. Sometimes they solve problems, sometimes they just look good in your office, sometime they fit into small places, sometimes they are to get rid of tons of cables. Not everyone wants a uber overclocked gaming rig. There are many more people that just want a good system that does not make their offices look like a network operations center.
Wow, I'm really surprised at the negative reception here. I personally think it has a hell of a lot of sex appeal - but then again, I think 99% of the cases and the case mods out there are total ugly crap (along with 99% of the desktop themes out there for that matter). All that dark steam-punk stuff is so overdone, so college-age-guy-who-plays-CoD-all-day-and-can't-get-a-girl. Do a google image search on "cool case mods" and you'll see what I mean (or maybe you won't). A PC case that looks like an antique radio? No thank you.
The last cool case I saw posted was that one made out of concrete...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/C [...] 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
Terminally ugly. I don't doubt that there are some decent components inside but I wouldn't take it on a bet unless I was allowed to immediately chuck that case in the trash. Has everyone forgotten 'form follows function'?
interesting! i like it. since im like the only one who likes it, why doesnt someone buy it for me, and then send it to me for free?
that said, its a KINGWIN not a KINGSTON power supply
Looks cool. But sexy is not a term I would use to describe a computer. (Even one loaded with pRon).
Tomorrow we'll be hearing news that Apple suddenly increased the price of their lowest end computers to $2901
Look out Apple...there is a new overpriced component out there.
Obsess much? You two idiots should be suspended from making comments.
Looks very nice that kingwin psu is crap though
Style of case is something to be used in some real engineering mod. Components suck, he chose parts with lowest possible performance/price ratio, and in this... case
it's just plain wasted effort.
Interesting but not what I would want.
ugly and weak...probably spent over 6k to build this piece of junk...where is the liquid cooling?
I think this is one of the WORST case mods i've seen, especially with a $2900 price tag....2900 for that atrocity?
ugly... Its not aimed at the SQUARE People.
Case looks good to me, not $2900 good but good none the less
Its unique......... i actually think this is rather cool.
This looks like this was made in high school or college. Looks very amateurish
This case is not ugly. It's rather sleek, actually, though it doesn't fit my personal tastes. You guys are looking at it the wrong way. This case is more like a piece of accent furniture. Think about how overpriced and impractical a lot of furniture is. It might stick out like a sore thumb on your desk at home, but I can see it fitting quite nicely in a properly-designed industrial space (e.g. the office of an architectural or engineering firm.)