% The (now demised) High End Stereo Case
% David Parsons <orc@pell.portland.or.us>
% Thu Jan 17 11:30:39 PST 2008

#The High End Stereo Carcass#

->[![The high-end stereo case]( highend-front.jpg =400x308)](highend-front.png)<-
This was my take on the custom case craze; the computer case as a
high-end stereo component.    The disks and power supply were in
the black box, while the motherboard sat up on top with cables
snaking out from under it.   In this picture, the case has an
elderly Soyo
[Dragon](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22SY+K7V%22+Dragon&btnG=Google+Search)
on it.

->[![The back of the high-end stereo case]( highend-back.jpg =400x244)](highend-back.png)<-

The black box held a 10gb hard disk, a generic 50x CD-ROM
drive, a spiffy blue led, and the guts of a cheapo ATX power supply.
The motherboard contained an <cite>AMD</cite> _K7/1333_, a <cite>#9</cite>
_Revolution IV_ video card (driving a <cite>SGI</cite> _1600SW_
monitor -- nothing but the finest discontinued hardware
on my desktop!), and a <cite>Zalman</cite> _CNPS5100-Cu_ CPU
cooler.


This case is dead because of power supply problems;  The first power
supply in the case was chosen for audio qualities, and it didn't provide
enough power for the K7.  The practical result of "didn't provide
enough power" was that the power supply overheated and died.  This
case predated the [teeny ituner power supplies](http://www.mini-box.com/),
so when the power supply went away so did the box.