Chiaroscuro case mod riffs on Beijing Olympics building
By Ross Miller 
posted December 20th 2008 12:05AM
posted December 20th 2008 12:05AM
posted December 20th 2008 12:05AM
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Really? The "you dummy" bit is built into the meaning of Chiaroscuro? I never knew.
Those Italians can be mean, sarcastic people sometimes.
The food's good, though.
That is really cool, looks like something from Halo
I'm just as impressed with the tidy wiring. Yum.
I've just been reading the writeup on that. It's definitely one of the most beautiful cases I've ever seen.
Very elegant, clean and warm. Love it.
At first glance, I thought it looked like one of those filters for heating systems.
Caravaggio was a badass, but this is a travesty.
Yes, but they've cornered the market on the phrase 'gangrene'.
4GB or RAM? I'd prefer RAM.
9350? LOL. Phenoms(1 not 2) are very bad compared to similarly priced Core 2 Quads
you sure about that??
given the right graphics and ram a phenom could blow a core 2 out the water.
not to mention the price is drastically cheaper. you have to compare the phenoms to the higher end core 2s to get equal performance
my triple core (8600) oc'd to 3.0 with a 8800Gt, 8gb of ram and a 10,000 rpm disk are mighty powerful and fast thank you.
V Langs,
Outside of an HPC or server environment, that is simply not true. A Phenom 9950 BE clocked at 2.6 GHz often loses to a slower clocked Q6600 and it's barely on par in applications that lean towards AMD. AMD does not have a single quad core in its lineup that is competitive in performance to Intel's comparatively priced quad cores; AMD's current flagship Phenom 9950 BE is usually slower than Intel's cheaper, entry level Q6600. The only time a Phenom processor can claim victory over an Intel processor is when you're trying to run an application optimized for multiple cores (more than 2) and you've got an Intel dual core Even then, the margin of victory is quite slim in everything but media encoding since A) the Core 2 architecture is much faster clock for clock, and B) a comparatively priced Intel Core 2 Duo has a much higher clockspeed than AMD's entry. I like AMD, but the truth of the matter is, Intel's had the better architecture for quite some time; that trends only continuing with Bloomfield.
i think they could have chosen a better name....
just FYI to everybody
chiaroscuro means "sharp contrast b/w light and dark"
Thanks, I wouldn't of known that from reading the article.
Whereas "churrascaria" is a purveyor of delicious roasted meats, BBQ'd in the churrasco style of Brazil. Mmmmmmm, meats.
Nice build but was all that really necessary.
Just give me the box and I'll free you from the future.
Probably not. But what in life is /really/ necessary.
(While Engadget are thinking of ways to improve the quality of comments, allowing italicized text would be nice)
@zioncat btw, doh
looks sweet. Looking more into the build, I saw he has light blue cold cathode or LEDs in the bottom, but the top is covered in UV/purple cold cathode tube lights, so how is the top cube lighting up blue?
Now that, is sexy.
Actually chiaroscuro means the contrast between light and SHADOW, used as a descriptive term in art, anyways, it's quite nice, reminds me of the design in Stargate Atlantis...
Churrasco? Where?!
Hmm, all this cultural hype about products "going green" as a catchphrase meaning "environmentally friendly," and the case is made of wood. How ironic.
Well, wood is more environmentally friendly than metal or plastic. We can make more wood (hint: it grows on trees), but we can't make more oil or metals (though we can - and should - recycle them).
The other advantage with wood is that unless you burn it, it is a very effective way of removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Regarding the case design, I like it (especially the lighting), but I think a slot-loading DVD drive would have been better.
They said "environmentally friendly" not "tree friendly".
It looks like the Allspark.
That's what she said.
It's a very nice homage to the PDP-8 (1965 y'all!):
http://kobnet.net/misc/www.cedmagic.com/history/dec-pdp-8.html
--LeftyX
\Kids nowadays, they just don't know any of their history...
Yes, but is that *real* wood panelling on the side of the PDP-8?