When I built my desktop, I made sure I had all the right components to customize my rig and make it truly mine. I think a lot of PC enthusiasts and gamers know what I mean. It's about personalizing your system, adding lights and even LCDs to the exterior of your case, liquid cooling your CPU and your video card, and making sure you have the quietest fans. Even if you do all that, there's a whole other level of PC customization in which modders become artists and create something truly unique. At The Mod Shop, those creations are on display, and their creators battle over who's got the best rig.
There are a lot of people out there right now busy with their Dremels, drilling and shaping their PC cases, making geeky art, and then stuffing it full of the latest components. Their systems are art pieces worthy of display in a gallery, but often they're also serious and powerful rigs capable of playing the latest games with the display settings turned up all the way.
At The Mod Shop, PC enthusiasts and modders alike can browse amazing rigs and read about what's in them and how they were made. Some people spend hours and days on their systems; others on the site have spent months and even years getting their machine to look just right. If you're a modder, you can come away with ideas. If you just like to watch, you can marvel at the work required to put some of these together.
The site is partially a social network for the mod community. You can sign up for free, customize your profile, and post photos and descriptions of your system from top to bottom: what kind of case you used, how you customized it, what components are inside, and so on. Other people can then link similar rigs to yours, comment on your system, and click to give you "props" (their word, not mine). Tag your rig, describe it, and label yourself "ready for battle." That's when the fun begins.
Once your system is "ready for battle," you can be chosen at random to throw down against another rig on the site. The two of you will be posted to the front page, and the Mod Shop community gets to vote on who's got the better machine. Sometimes the folks behind the site do a tournament where the winner gets prizes, but other times they just make two machines battle one another. Either way, the community always determines who wins. Win or lose, your battle record is posted in your rig's profile.
You don't have to be a PC modder to understand and enjoy the photos and galleries at The Mod Shop, but it definitely helps. Otherwise you can just have an artistic eye and a love for PC hardware. My system pales in comparison to the rigs battling it out at The Mod Shop, but after looking at all of the systems in the gallery, I'll admit I'm inspired.
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