An alternative gaming top case

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Sure -- building your own case is a definite option.  Modifying the
motherboard yourself isn't a practical option (I say that from the
perspective of somebody who has successfully soldered a couple of SMT
components by hand), but there are some unused connectors on there --
in particular an I2C, and I think I've heard of at least one camera
that interfaces to I2C.