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Nissan GT-R Custom PC Case Lets You Play Racing Games in Style

You guys might not have noticed this, but Japanese technology isn't as world-renowned as it used to be. After all, Sony headphones and Walkmans are all but forgotten, while the Koreans and Chinese are dominating almost every segment of the electronics market. As a result of this, or maybe just as a normal transition of things, the Japanese have taken a more hipster approach to the things they make.
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For example, their games are less mainstream and more original. Sure, they have a few glitches, but the days of family-friendly Mario Kart racing have been replaced by "my costume is made of my hair and turns into a giant fist to kill angels and monsters". (that's a reference to Bayonetta for those of you who don't know the game)

Anyway, there's a whole phenomenon going on in the Land of the Rising Sun right now, where people are making custom computer cases in cool new styles. Some are shaping them like toilets, others like animals, but we're more interested in this Nissan GT-R R35 mod.

It was showcased two month ago by Nvidia Japan on its Youtube channel. That's because at the core of this monstrosity is their GeForce GTX970IXOC-4GD graphics card, a high-ticket item worth about $400. But even without the killer graphics, this GT-R computer is interesting.

At a glance, the GT-R looks like a remote control toy, and maybe it's based on one. But the fact that the sockets for the monitor cables stick out from the windshield lets you know something weird is going on here. What strikes you about this PC mod is just how compact it is, probably only about 30 cm (12 inches) in length. No wonder they had to stick an extra cooler on the side because the amount of electronics in this GT-R is over 9,000!

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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