Full Name: Craig Tate Country: USA (Plano, Texas) Handle: Tech-Daddy
Don't you call it a HEMI...
Craig's always been a fan of muscle cars, so it made complete sense for him to base his case mod on a 1969 BOSS 302 Mustang. He wanted to build a screamer of a computer, and these two themes just seemed to go together as naturally as peas and carrots.
Craig custom built the "hood scoop" (which is actually a blow hole cover, so it exhausts air instead of sucking air in...), and custom created the black striping in a vector file and had it cut in vinyl. Craig also had the internal chassis powder coated in super gloss black, and built 2 fan grills out of remote control car wheel hubs (he cut off the wheel mag from the rest of the wheel hub, and then mounted it in some acrylic that was covered in carbon fiber vinyl).
The final tie to this machine's muscle car roots is an actual air cleaner that sits over the CP heat sink and makes it look like an air manifold. Craig says the heat sink was chosen for its cooling properties as well as its "engine" look and feel: "The 4 pipes on the side looked like an exhaust manifold to me and the video cards were chosen due to their Über-sexy heat pipes…"
Craig's case also features some nifty custom lighting. In addition to the 2 red meteor lights underneath the case, the BOSS FX-57 also features a UV meteor light embedded in the 5.25 drive wall that makes the wall edge "throb" (the UV light fires thru a UV orange acrylic that is sandwiched on the outer wall of the 5.25 drive bay; its edge is exposed facing the rear of the case near the cable connectors.
With the custom paint, vinyl, lighting and amazing attention to detail, the Boss FX-57 earns honors as the SLI Rig of the Month for March.
Congrats Craig, and enjoy your reign on the "Rig of the Month" page this March!
Have you created your own smoking-fast SLI system? Have you pimped it out with the latest mods? Is EVERYTHING in your machine UV-reactive? Do you have seventeen 120mm fans adorning your dual-GPU benchmark-shattering monster of a machine? Do you have what it takes to make the "SLI Rig of the Month?”
Find out – submit your machine for a chance to win glory (and get featured on NVIDIA’s web site!).
To submit your SLI rig for consideration, send an email to us with the information below. You MUST have the phrase "SLI Rig of the Month" in the subject line of your email. Emails without this will not be considered.
In your submission email, you must include the following information:
Full Name
Gaming Handle
Country
City and State or province
CPU brand and model (For example: Intel QX9650)
Motherboard brand and model (For example: EVGA 790 SLI)
Number of graphics cards, brand, and model (For example: 3x EVGA GTX 285’s)
Power Supply brand, model, and wattage. (For example: PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 1200W)
Hard drive brand, size, and raid configuration (if applicable) (For example: 2x Western Digital Raptor 150GB, RAID 0)
Case brand and model (For example: Cooler Master Cosmos S)
Lighting: Please describe any lighting that you have added to the case
Cooling: Please describe you cooling system whether its air, water, or etc.
Overclocking: Please list any overclocking you have done with the parts, clock speeds, and overclocked speeds.
Photos of your machine! Please provide photos of both the inside and outside of your machine. Keep in mind, the more photos you have the better look we get of your machine.
– PLEASE USE ONLY ".JPG" FILES, AND DO NOT SEND ".ZIP" FILES). Please limit your total photo attachments to 9 MB or less in your email.
Also, please answer the following questions:
What games are you currently playing and why?
What games are you looking forward to and why?
What was the biggest challenge you faced when building your machine and how did you over come it?
What advice would you give a first time system builder?
When do you plan on building you next system and what are you plans for that system?
You may also write a short description of your machine, and what you’ve done to it to make it stand above the rest but please keep it less than 150 words.
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