Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
Strategy Gaming Case
Mod
Description of my case:
Idea
Since I love to play the nice Command & Conquer
strategy games, I thought it could
be nice to have and Command & Conquer Gaming PC.
Since I had a carton and got some
posters from the shop where I bought the latest Command
and Conquer game “EA Command
& Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars” I have decided to build up
this Case Mod.
Underneath you can see some pictures of the new Commodore
Gaming PC’s I have taken
at CeBIT 2007. Some of the new
Commodore Gaming PC’s are also designed with game
pictures on the cases.
Please take a look at my Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium
Wars - Strategy Gaming Case Mod
Worklog / Homepage - hope you like what you see!
EA Command & Conquer 3
Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer Homepage
http://www.commandandconquer.com/
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Commodore
Gaming
Commodore Gaming Homepage
http://www.commodoregaming.com/
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Command & Conquer 3
Tiberium Wars - Strategy Gaming Case Mod
My Case Mod Homepage
http://www.lanpartypathfinder.com/casemodding/cnc3/
Imagination:
Build phase
Pictures from build phase of the Command & Conquer 3
Tiberium Wars - Strategy Gaming Case Mod.
Posters
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The Carton
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Carton & Holes
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Wood Interior
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Carton with Interior
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Painting
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Glue & Gluing
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Hardware
Pictures of the hardware I have used for my Command &
Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars - Strategy Gaming Case Mod.
Processor
Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core processor QX6850 - The
world's best gaming processor
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2XE/index.htm
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When more is better—with four processing cores the Intel®
Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6850
is a multitasking monster delivering significantly more
performance for highly-threaded apps.
8 MB of L2 cache
1333 MHz front-side bus
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Default.aspx
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The GA-X38-DQ6 is GIGABYTE next generation, high
performance platform based on the killer
combination of the new Intel X38 chipset plus support for
the latest multi-core processors
up to FSB 1600MHz, including the upcoming 45nm platform.
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In addition to setting new records
for blistering performance, the GA-X38-DQ6 features an all-new
copper Silent Pipe thermal solution for both the chipset
and CPU power MOSFET, dramatically reducing
the temperature around the CPU.
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The GA-X38-DQ6 is also part of the
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Series of motherboards, featuring top
quality electronic components which provide optimized
power savings, ultra cooling and extended
system durability.
Graphics Card
Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H (ATI Radeon
HD 2600 XT)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/VGA/Default.aspx
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GIGABYTE graphics accelerator
GV-RX26T256H.
Powered by ATI Radeon™
HD 2600 XT GPU.
Supports PCI Express and 120 stream
processing units.
Microsoft DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0 support.
Integrated with 256MB GDDR3 memory and
128-bit memory interface.
Supports native CrossFire,
Avivo™ HD video and displady
technology.
Features dual DVI-I / D-sub (by adapter) / HDTV /.
Supports Dual Dual-link @ high
resolution up to dual 2560x1600.
HDMI and 5.1 surround audio (by optional adapter).
Hard Drive
Western Digital RE2 750 GB SATA WD7500AYYS
http://www.wdc.com
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SATA Hard Drives, 750 GB, 1.2 million hours MTBF, 16 MB
Cache, 7200 RPM.
High Capacity
Enterprise-class
24x7 Reliability
1.2 million hours MTBF. Best-in-class vibration tolerance.
5-year limited warranty.
Just three of the reasons why WD RE2 drives are the
world's most reliable SATA drives.
Key Features
best-in-class enterprise reliability in high duty cycle
environments. With 1.2 million
hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available
reliability rating on a high-capacity
drive.
High capacity - Up to 750 GB of storage packed
with server-class features and low
cost-per-gigabyte value.
Fast - With a next-generation SATA interface, 3 Gb/s data
transfer rate, native command
queuing (NCQ), and 16 MB cache, these drives deliver
optimum performance.
Low power - Active Power Save™ delivers
best-in-class seek mode power consumption through
an advanced WD firmware which conserves power in active
seek modes without degrading
performance.
RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) -
A feature pioneered by WD,
significantly reduces drive fallout caused by the
extended hard drive error-recovery
processes common to desktop drives.
Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) -
Provides best-in-class vibration tolerance
by optimizing operation and performance when the drives
are used in vibration-prone,
multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage.
5-year limited warranty
Memory
Kingston HyperX DDR2 1200Mhz
KHX9600D2K2/2G (PC2-9600) 2 x 2GB Kit
http://www.kingston.com/hyperx/products/khx_ddr2.asp
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Kingston HyperX DDR2 memory
modules offer faster speeds, lower latencies, higher data bandwidths
and lower power consumption than DDR memory. DDR2 memory
modules are not backwards compatible
with DDR-based motherboards, due to incompatible module
connections, voltage and DRAM technology.
DDR2 HyperX is available in
speeds ranging from PC2-4300 to PC2-9600 and in 1GB and 2GB dual-channel
kits.
Cooling
Zalman CNPS8700 LED CPU Cooler
http://www.zalman.co.kr
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Cooler Master Products
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1 piece CCFL Blue Light
Cooler Master Ultra Aurora CCFL Series DFL-UD1-EB
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2 piece Fan GRILL
Sharkoon Fan Grill ALIEN
http://www.sharkoon.com/enghtml/grills.htm
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2 pieces Case Fan
Cooler Master LED Silent Fan Blue TLF-S82-EB
http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/index.php
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1 piece Case Fan Control
Cooler Master AEROGATE I ALD-V01
http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/index.php
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1 piece Thermal Compound
Cooler Master NanoFusion
Supreme
http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/index.php
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Front Bezel
Cooler Master Alloy Front
Bezel
http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/index.php
Light
Cooler Master Ultra Aurora CCFL Series (DFL-UD1-EB)
http://www.coolermaster.com/products/product.php?act=detail&id=128
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TV Card
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4000
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_hvr4000.html
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WinTV-HVR-4000 features
Quad-mode TV tuner for your PC. Watch and record:
DVB-S2 hi-definition digital Satellite TV
DVB-S digital Satellite TV
Freeview digital Terrestrial TV
Analogue TV
CyberLink PowerCinema application included for
watching full screen TV or TV-in-a-window on your PC.
Schedule your TV recordings on a daily, weekly or once
only schedule. Free EPG for analogue and digital TV too!
Includes Hauppauge remote control.
Sound Card
Sound Blaster X-Fi
http://www.soundblaster.com/
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Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series - X-RAM for high
performance gaming
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=208&product=16559
Achieve the fastest, most realistic gameplay
possible with Sound Blaster X-Fi.
Boost your game audio performance
Free up system memory and improve your audio quality and
performance in games such as
Battlefield 2, Prey, Quake 4, Doom 3 and others that take
advantage of X-RAM.
Battle in a 3D soundscape
Bullets whooshing past your head. The thunderous sounds from explosions.
Take your games
to the next level with the EAX® ADVANCED HD™1 sound
effects.
Revitalize your compressed game sounds
Get ready for the most intensive gaming experience with
the X-Fi Crystalizer
technology
where gunshots come resolutely alive and explosions sound
uncannily real.
Sound Blaster X-Fi
I-O Console Upgrade Kit
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=16&product=14711
Comprehensive connectivity and convenient control for
Sound Blaster X-Fi.
The Sound Blaster X-Fi™ I/O
Console & Remote Control turn a Sound Blaster X-Fi
card into a
home studio system. Its analogue inputs include phono with preamp (switchable to
aux/line
level) for turntables, high-impedance input for guitars,
0.25-inch mic input, headphone output,
line-in, and full size MIDI I/O. Digital I/O includes
optical and coaxial S/PDIF. The IR remote
and bundled
Easy connections to all your CE equipment
Exhaustive I/O for connecting to headphones, guitars,
record players, receivers, MP3 players,
DATs and more Easy control of Sound Blaster X-Fi
through the convenient, external break-out-box
Control all of your music, movies and pictures from the
comfort of your couch with the wireless
remote and Entertainment Center
software
Power Supply
be-quiet! Dark Power PRO 1000W
http://www.be-quiet.net
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The Dark Power Pro offers sufficient performance for all
high-end PCs and sets standards with respect to
noise levels, quality, economic efficiency and voltage
stability.
Six separate 12V circuits ensure an independent power
supply of all components. The use of SLI, CrossFire
systems and Quad SLI solutions is made possible by five PCIe VGA connectors (3x 6-pin, 2x 6+2-pin)!
Optical Drives
CD / DVD / Blu-Ray / HD Burners
DVD ReWriter Drives (DVD
Burner)
AOpen DSW2012SA
http://global.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?Auno=2596
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AOpen DSW2012SA is one of the few DVD RW drives that supports up to
20x DVD±R and 12x DVD-RAM
writing speeds. Its DVD±R DL Double/Dual Layer technology
can also write up to 8.5GB data to a DVD
disk at 8x speed. With its already mature CD writing
technology, AOpen DSW2012SA lets you write disks
of all formats using one single drive.
AOpen DSW2012SA can write on single layer DVD±R disks at 20x speed, 8x and 6x speed on DVD+RW
/-RW disks, and up to 48 x and 32x on CD-R/RW disks
respectively. AOpen DSW2012SA's performance
stands out among all other
memory, and more importantly, its fast and reliable
writing capability, for both business and individual
users, AOpen DSW2012SA proves
to be the best choice for storage of all kind of data. Not only can it
save users tremendous amount of precious time, AOpen DSW2012SA also greatly enhances users
operation experience by featuring its unique and
state-of-the art sound-barrier design.
Blu-Ray DVD & Pro Blu-Ray - DVD
Writer (Blu-Ray & DVD Burner)
Pioneer BDR-202BK
http://www.pioneer.eu/eur/products/45/104/442/BDR-202BK/index.html
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The BDR-202BK offers 5X reading
for single layer BD-ROM/R/RE discs and 2X reading for dual layer BD-ROM discs,
along with 4X writing for BD-R and 2X writing for BD-RE
single layer discs, 12X writing for DVD-R/+R, 6X for
DVD-RW/+RW, 4X for DVD-R/+R DL (Dual / Double Layer), 5X
for DVD-RAM and 24X for CD-R/RW media types.
Blu-ray Disc™ Rewritable Drive (Blu-Ray
Burner)
Sony BWU-200S
http://www.sonystyle.com
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The versatile BWU-200S Blu-ray
Disc™ recordable/rewritable drive gives you the best of all worlds. It can
record up to
four hours of 1080 Full HD video or up to 50GB of data on
BD-R/-RE discs at up to 4X speed. The drive can also record
8.5GB/4.7GB DVDs and common rewritable CDs to meet even
more of your needs. Record a variety of video, ranging
from HDV/AVCHD camcorders to Blu-ray
Discs and keep the video in its native HD resolution, or down-convert to
standard
definition and record a DVD. The easy-to-install SATA
interface drive works with Windows® Vista/XP/2000.
Hardware setup
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
Graphics Card
Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H
CPU Cooler
Zalman CNPS8700 LED
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The funny part
This is too hot!
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Case Mod finished
Pictures of the finished Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium
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Pictures of the
finished Case Mod with
hardware installed
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