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Case mods are pretty righteous, but this Imperial AT-AT case mod is a step above, say, your garden-variety (but still cool) Aperture case mods. This work of art is the brain-child of Asphiax, who started with a giant Hasbro AT-AT "toy" and decided to cram his computer inside of it. On top of your standard gaming rig innards like a beefy processor, GPU, and 8-gigs of RAM, this sucker also has a complex water-cooling system. Oh, and the laser cannons on the head are remote-controlled with an Arduino set up. Because it wasn't awesome enough already.

No one in their right mind would ever want to work for Aperture Science. Pretending to work for Aperture Science, on the other hand, could be kind of fun, and significantly safer. At the request of his awesome wife, Willsonman built this Aperture Science Enrichment Center case mod that lets you have a little bit of Portal on the device you're playing Portal on. Check out the whole Portal-themed rig below.

Is your solid white or grey-and-black Mac not really helping the vibe when you come home from a long day of work, sit back, and watch Mad Men or Pan Am on your computer? Does your boring black PC case stand in stark contrast to Christina Hendricks' dresses or the Christina Ricci's stewardess uniform? Never fear, because Jeffrey Stephenson made a gorgeous art deco case mod that looks like it was ripped right out of the go go smoke-and-drink-in-the-office era of your favorite show that pretends it isn't a soap opera! You know, if modern PCs existed back then. More pictures of the smooth case mod? What kind of compu-guts are hidden within? After the break, of course!

When you run out of impressive, expensive hardware to shove into your gaming and video editing rig, what's left? Why, turning it into something that looks nothing like the appropriate object to house all of that expensive hardware, of course! Head past the break to take a tour through some of the most impressive PC case mods that you can only dream housed your rig, and others that make you thrilled your rig is most likely contained within a black rectangle.

Out of all the fun case mods one can make, and out of all the Penny Arcade characters one can choose, a case mod of Div, everyone's favorite belligerent, drunken DIVX player, appeared at PAX East 2011 this year. The mod, called DIVpc, was initially an ATX case, that had PVC pipes attached to make the arms and gas pipes attached to form the legs, with the face made from clay, wire mesh and Bondo. The eyes are pingpong balls, both a convenient material to make Div's eyes, as well as a (probably incidental) tribute to a fan favorite story arc. The alcohol pictured is a bottle of Wild Turkey, filled with actual alcohol that can probably never be obtained now that it's within Div's PVC clutches.

The computer housed within Div is a bit stronger than Div would actually be, as the case mod sports a Core i5 750 CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and two 750 GB HDDs. Head on past the break to see a couple more pictures of the technologically-advanced drunk.