Modding NVIDIA ION CUBE by cheapskate and mnpctech... We won!

They are, definitely.

Man, 17k+ views already?! That's awesome. That's also the most amount of people that I unquestioningly know of that have heard any of my electronic material!

 

Thanks, guys!

You HAD to use the 'B' word, didn't you! I'm going to go read the comments. The gizmodo kiddies HATE my designs. They are always good for a laugh.

@EEL - You could sell a few pieces to the Jump Back people. Then you'd have it popping up in games and car lot commercials.

 

I hopped over there the other day, I'm impressed. And so as to not go completely off-topic, congrats on the Giz post.

PM Sent

 

Thanks bro!

Today, I start dismantling it, so I can ship it off to cheaps.

* scratches head... this will be interesting

 

Use the CompGeeks packing technique: Put it in a box with two or three of those plastic pilows, and hope for the best.

 

The pics and video show Bill upside down trying to put it together. I hope he figures out how to take it apart without medical intervention.

 

*shivers at the mere thought of that*

 

What, EEL? -never had a 15" box with an unpackaged hard drive in it sent to you?

 

Okay doke, shes all packed and ready for her journey to cheaps. I've documented everything for UPS so we're prepared

 

Hahah, I've received stuff from Geeks before... It's scary.

*crosses fingers hoping everything goes well and UPS doesn't decide to pull a TMB casemod on the box*

 

Where's your faith in UUPS?

 

Wrap the cube in a garbage bag, put it in an oversize box and pour it full of expanding polyurethane foam. Whack the foam off when it arrives and remove the bag.

One small problem is the PU foam is exothermic and gives off a BUNCH of heat while curing. Probably melt the plexi on the cube and the garbage bag.

Nevermind.

 

Box one has some impressive skidmarking, but the contents are intact.

 

Gotta love UPS!

 

Boy, have they changed their uniform policies!

 

If THAT delivered the package, I wouldn't mind the skidmarks.

...skidmarks...

...skidmarks...

 

I keep meaning to post but that John's UPS pic keeps distracting me.

Awesome design and perfect execution! Bravo!

 

I never get tired of seeing that picture

Thanks for the post Mach!

 

She's going to hurt her self lifting heavy boxes with her back arched like that.


*Just got an image of her bending over to pick something up...

Anyway, I got some stuff in late last night.
First, here was box one:

-Whee! Ion Motherboard!

-Oops! Scratch that. It's spare parts and install discs.

-Under that was the base with the power brick.

-Box two. This kills me. Bill packed the sh*******t out of this stuff. This is a full atx case box.

-Box two unpacked. There was a handy styrofoam carry tray in the box too.

-Inside box three, wrapped in 5 layers of bubble wrap, was another box.

-Inside that box was more bubble wrap. At this point I thought he had sent me an empty box to unwrap, just for a cruel laugh.

-I think the fan guard would have arrived safely even if it had been dropped from 50,000 feet.

-I'll figure out what to do with the three foot pile of bubble wrap in my rumpus room later. -Maybe an audio re-enactment of Pearl Harbor...

-Don't you hate that. The instructions are in Japanese! I may never get this back together.

-I don't think this part got enough fanfare. I essentially gave Bill a vague angle and said 'wing it !' What he ended up with is absolutely fantastic!

-Here's how far I got on it last night. Stuff got moved and tweaked. I'm going to add all the stuff that didn't make the deadline.

Thanks again, everyone!

 

I have a delivery for a Mr. Cheap Skate. Sign here.