Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Mad Reader Mod Email This Print This View My Personal Library Hard Hat Area March 2006 • Vol.6 Issue 3 Page(s) 42-43 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Mad Reader Mod KOS-MOS Takes A New Form Don’t mess with this rig. PlayStation 2 buffs will instantly recognize the window etching of KOS-MOS, a particularly tough and powerful android that plays a large role in the video game Xenosaga. As Bill “Gunsmith” Ryder, the PC’s owner puts it, “KOS-MOS is one of the lead characters from Namco’s six-part RPG Xenosaga, an (almost) emotionless battle android designed to combat an invading alien force called the Gnosis.” As it turns out, the commissioned etching isn’t the PC’s main feature. Ryder added it so people could easily identify the computer’s theme. Instead, the rig is Ryder’s interpretation of KOS-MOS as a PC. The KOS-MOS-style front panel includes the android’s model (Kosmos Obey Strategic Multiple Operation System) and Vector Industry (Vector Industries built the in-game warrior). The panel also sports a custom case badge that resembles a design on KOS-MOS’ forehead. “It was quite difficult to design a PC case based on a humanoid weapon,” Ryder says. “I went through four major revisions before settling on this one.” Ryder didn’t stop with the exterior; he modded the power supply, routed the cabling to the back of the system, and added a watercooling setup that handles the rig’s AMD Athlon 64 3700+ CPU and Asus V9999 Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card. The watercooling setup also cools the Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP Ultra’s northbridge. KOS-MOS has more than half a terabyte of hard drive space, thanks to four Western Digital hard drives. Ryder, who hails from England, spent five months designing, collecting components, and modding the Koolance chassis into KOS-MOS’ new body. by Joshua Gulick View the graphics that accompany this article. (NOTE: These pages are PDF (Portable Document Format) files. You will need Adobe Acrobat to view these pages. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader) Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.