Any top-notch projects around?

hey folks, due the fact that the forum isn´t that well-frequented these days i´m a little bit bored cuz i don´t got any posting-work. ok, i´m bored, what could i do? a little bit of moddin work, think i´ll wait for christmas beeing over before i start my next big project. and thats the point: i´d like to know if anyone of you is sitting at home, laughing like mad whiole planning the next cunning kick@ss modjob. if yes, what you gonna build, why, what hardware, what case, what lighting.................
jsut give us (especially me) something to discuss

Ok...early in the new year Im building what can only be referedto as "The Dream Machine"  ;D

Where talking the best hardware I can afford, packed into a case that is going to be so modded it'll hurt.

hehe

Current gear Im looking at are:

ABIT KG-7 RAID Mobo.
1.4Gig Athlon T-Bird OCed(Cant afford XP....but we wil see...)
GF3
Sound Blaster Audigy
Biggest HDD I can find (so far 80GB)
Windows XP Pro (I LOVE it)
Crap load of RAM..

I think you get the picture..

any ideas on secs/mods etc

for my next baby, i have thought about some big action things like "the completely copper-cooled case" or a hardcore watercooling rig. i´m currently "researching" stuff related to peltier-cooling solutions.  ;D

Yeah Im looking into things like watercooling too..
My next box is goin gto be one of tose ones you see and drool.
hehe
;D

lol, mine too, i´m planning my second mod and it´ll be stunning cunning overclocked hardcore casemoddy ;D

Copper? Doesn't that weigh a ton?

not exactly, but, somthing like that

Ahhh i love the smell of a dremel in the morning!!!!

A word about peltier elements
they take a lot of power (but an extra powersupply fixes that)
What concerns me is that I´ve heard they can,suddenly
without varning, stop working,  if used with an AMD that
would be catastophical !!! with a P4 it would be Ok
Any thought or knowledge about this ?

i know that if you don´t cool the hot side good enough, the peltier-effect stops and the previously cold side gets fu#+!ng hot too and ya cpu can get more than  serveral 3 to 5 hundreds of degrees Celsius. ´bout stopping working without a reason, i´ve never heard, but it´s an interesting question