Article 25YS5 Clean Slate, a modular PC that looks amazing

Clean Slate, a modular PC that looks amazing

by
Rob Beschizza
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Jeffrey Stephenson's latest deco desktop is the Clean Slate.

The design concept is to eliminate the usual case and instead give each component its own box, each air-cooled and installed on a beautiful maple plinth. It's a beefy system, too, with a recent video card, a socket 1151 Core CPU and 8GB of RAM.

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The form factor was influenced by vintage exposed-tube amplifiers like the McIntosh 225. The graphics card I/O plate is custom made from aluminum and includes the system's power switch.

See it naked at Jeffrey's tearup report.

For me it evokes a miniature model of early computing if early computing had never been miniaturized. Imagine if we had ended up with neighborhood AI substations on every street corner and a terminal in every home before the 50s were finished with us...

Teardown is easy, too. Just remove the covers and get hacking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-Mrypx17Q

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