Why in god's name do people 'mod' cases?
You're going to say the same reason people 'mod' cars right?
OK, I'll make my standpoint clear - I modify cars, normally by starting with the mechanical bits and working my way out, not by sticking some blue LED's on and dropping the suspension.
Difference being, I modify cars to make them go faster, or handle better, not to look gay.
But then I can see why people mod cars, at least you can make them look like they go fast (even if you actually take a couple of seconds off the 0-60 time by weighing them down with a great big f'off spoiler and a load of carbon-fibre look plastic.
But then, at least cars go places, and people can see what you've done - PC's on the other hand, sit at home, where no one really sees them in person.
Other thing is, I've heard debate that some case-mods can affect the PC's functionality. Take a black-light strip, these create inference on a similar frequency to a CPU's clock speed. PC's are in steel boxes for a few reasons, one of which is it keeps out interference. Cutting a hole in it will negate some of this effect. Also worthy of note - perspex is a really bad conductor of heat.
And one last thing....
When people 'mod' things to give them an indvidual look - why the hell do they all end up looking the same? Take cars - LED screen washers, single, central wiper blade, lower it, alloy wheels with as few spokes as possible. PC's paint it, cut a window in the side, put a light in.
Damn that's better, I've been wanting to get that off my chest for a long time :flame:
