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Creative G5 Tower mod (pic)
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Wow, nice. That is interesting, to say the least. Red is better for at night, obviously, but white or blue would look sexier, IMO.
Edit: woah. From tout's pic, my opinion is that it is way too bright. Still neat.
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I have to wonder how bad it looks in the inside though.
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Interesting.
I'm wary of G5 tower casemods, though. They had to do some impressive airflow engineering to keep everything at a reasonable temperature, and I'm not sure how wise it is to disrupt that airflow.
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Originally posted by Xeo:
Wow, nice. That is interesting, to say the least. Red is better for at night, obviously, but white or blue would look sexier, IMO.
Edit: woah. From tout's pic, my opinion is that it is way too bright. Still neat.
I totally agree. Also, if they would shave the heads of the LEDs down so that you really couldn't see then when they were off, I think it would make it all that much more interesting...
My vote = BLUE
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
My vote = BLUE
The other light on the front is white so maybe that would look better.
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Originally posted by Xeo:
The other light on the front is white so maybe that would look better.
Have you ever seen a white LED clock though?
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Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
Have you ever seen a white LED clock though?
No, and I'm sure it is because red is easier on the eyes in darkness, right?
I'm just saying for sexiness factor, white fits with the machine better.
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Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
Have you ever seen a white LED clock though?
Which is exactly why we NEED one... originality, maybe?
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Originally posted by Brien:
Which is exactly why we NEED one... originality, maybe?
No I am not objecting to a white G5 LED clock. I am saying since all he did was take a regular alarm clock and gut it good luck finding one with white LED's to gut.
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Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
No I am not objecting to a white G5 LED clock. I am saying since all he did was take a regular alarm clock and gut it good luck finding one with white LED's to gut.
From this pic:
It looks like he put the LEDs on himself (how else would they be spaced so well as to fit in the holes). Even if he didn't, replacing them with any color you want would be easy.
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Sweet idea!
Red when HDD is being accessed and blue when it is not will be cool!
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Dude, didn't just gut a clock.
He made his own circuit board after taking apart an alarm clock to see one in action. He didn't even use the same LEDs, he bought the ones he noticed would fit in the holes. In all likelyhood, some manufacturer makes them in blue and white, but he found red and stuck with it.
IMHO, it looks meh.
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Originally posted by FulcrumPilot:
Red when HDD is being accessed and blue when it is not will be cool!
Yikes! That's a little too big to be flashing back and forth between colors. Unless you never have any epileptics over. 
I think LEDs are common as red/green for multi colored. I don't know about red/blue. Blue/white might be common, IIRC.
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Originally posted by Xeo:
Wow, nice. That is interesting, to say the least. Red is better for at night, obviously, but white or blue would look sexier, IMO.
We also know, from looking at PC case mods, that blue is faster.
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Originally posted by chris v:
We also know, from looking at PC case mods, that blue is faster.
Yes, much faster then old red ones. Red reminds me of my 40lbs. alarm clock from 1982.
I wouldn't mind seeing a green variant.
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I wouldn't mind seeing a green variant.
yuck, green is so matrix computer geek.
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Originally posted by AB^2=BCxAC:
Dude, didn't just gut a clock.
He made his own circuit board after taking apart an alarm clock to see one in action. He didn't even use the same LEDs, he bought the ones he noticed would fit in the holes. In all likelyhood, some manufacturer makes them in blue and white, but he found red and stuck with it.
IMHO, it looks meh.
yah, it's defiantly a quasi big project.
Here is my photoshop of what blue lights would look like.
Blue Light Version
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Very nice looking. Would only be useful if the G5 is on the desktop.
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What with all the colour complaints? You could just get Power Mac socks.
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What with all the colour complaints? You could just get Power Mac socks.
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Reminds of Night Brights. Those pegs you stick in that board to make a light picture.
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I dunno... kinda tacky.
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
Reminds of Night Brights. Those pegs you stick in that board to make a light picture.
i think that was Lite-Brite...
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Originally posted by Xeo:
Wow, nice. That is interesting, to say the least. Red is better for at night, obviously.
Unless you're like me, and absolutely detest red displays. Like, I have an irrational hate for them. Do you know how hard it was 10 years ago to get alarm clocks with large-number green displays? (I can't see crap without my glasses, so I need huge numbers! The bigger the better.) Nowadays they're faaaiirly common, but years ago it was tough!
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