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he could have both AC and DC voltage for the steampunk
lights and still only have one wire that plugs into the wall. We Want Your Mod
He scavenged many of the gears and other small mechanical
parts from broken watches, some of which had then been Have a computer mod that will bring tears to our eyes? Email
incorporated into jewelry and other items. photos and a description to madreadermod@cpumag.com. If
Frost delidded his Core i7-3770K and left the integrated we choose your system as our “Mad Reader Mod,” you’ll win
heat spreader off so that he could implement a more direct $1,500! (U.S. residents only, please.)
cooling solution; doing this required him in turn to mod
the CPU socket to adjust for the proper pressure so that the
CPU would work properly. He also disabled his graphics
card’s overcurrent protection so that he could push GPU
overclocks a bit.
In addition to his 3770K, Minerva’s components include
a GIGABYTE motherboard, 32GB of PNY DDR3 memory,
a GeForce GTX TITAN X graphics card, a 900-watt Antec
power supply, a pair of 1TB SSDs in RAID configuration to
run Windows 10, a pair of 256GB SSDs in RAID running
Windows 7, and a 1TB hard drive for storage. The system’s
cooling system mostly consists of XSPC waterblocks and
custom radiators.

Next Up In The Pantheon
Frost tells us that he’s working on his next build already,
but is characteristically mum on the details. “I hesitate to say
what it is at the moment, because we are planning on bringing
it to a LANFest event soon,” he says.
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