How about compare? Stability? Looks? Well, the front is differnt 'cause there's a slot for disk drive and so on and it's not aluminium. But it's easier to modify the ting, nobody would rework an original Apple case. The pic is photographed with a flash, normally they look better. My modifications.
- Mounting up to 3 HDs in the two 5,25" slots which you can't access from the front
- 92 mm fan at the same place for perfect ventilation
- inside covered with air-permeable black material to avoid that dust is sucked into the computer
- 80 mm Sharkoon fan at the back side
- silver 3,5" floppy drive
- left side's holes are covered with a air-permeable light grey material, otherwise they look black (you can see this a bit on the right case)
- soldered a front Firewire jack at the bottom (behind the lower flap)
- Apple logos at both sides
And I have created a experimental electronics that reduces the normal power and drive LEDs to a single blue LED. Beneath the floppy drive you have another front 3,5"-slot f.e. for a cardreader. You can also use black or white DVD drives 'cause they are covered. But you can't see the drive LEDs now, but I also have an idea how to fix this.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.
My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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