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Building a computer case from ground up

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Howdy.

Regular cases don't cool enough for me so I thought I'd make my own. I have the design, put lots of thought into it but there's something lacking... I can't find height on rear brackets in relation to mobo or measures on any other component. So far I have the PSU, mobo and IO backpanel from www.formfactors.org but that's it. I don't want to measure myself, I want the exact specs. Anyone got any tips as to where I should look and I'll be a very happy man!

Your's, me.
 
One of the best ways to do it is to hack the backpanel and motherboard trays off an old case. That way you get the measurements exact, but it's still a completely personalized case. :)
 
if your worried about cooling then i would suggest putting psu in front bay area and run the cord to the back (heat comes out front) then u can have the fans in the back blow in directly to the cpu. Also make a fan on the bottom to blow on the video card insted of side so you can have sexi window
 
exact specs of what? if its a custom case you make the specs ;)
 
if you need PCI/AGP slot dimensions, you gotta measure that stuff yourself. No sense in being lazy when it comes to case making.
 
I too am building my own case out of a need for something different, something unique. I ended up using the rear panel of the mb tray off another case as such:

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Installed:

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Originally posted by ness1469
One of the best ways to do it is to hack the backpanel and motherboard trays off an old case. That way you get the measurements exact, but it's still a completely personalized case. :)
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Case hacking will not be permitted in this forum.
 
Berserk what kind of material did you use on that case? and isn't it those 90 degree fittings restrict a lot your water flow?
 
Dont know how exact these are, but im currently turning some SketchUP Drawings from bit-tech (http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=46003&highlight=sketchup) into AutoCAD files for my project. Sketchup looks to be an easy program to use to design a case in, and the guys over at bit-tech already did alot of parts in it. i would learn it, but im too busy with autocad right now (finals time) to sit down and learn another modeling program.
Im sure you could use there drawings and get mesurments!
 
Howdy!

Thanks for all help so far. I've up until now found the exact specs for rear brackets from SSI, Keyelco and Electronics-bay put together, all that is lacking is exact dimentions including screw holes for drives, 3,5" and 5,25", hard and soft.

My way of cooling essential parts will be aided by the laws of physics, that's how I'll make it quiet as well as efficient. I'm not going for water or compressed cooling but I'll leave room for it to fit later on if needed. When I get as far as building my supercase I'll post pics.

I know I'm kind of picky but I do want the exact specs! I'd rather be thorough than end up with having to ajust afterwards, I have very limited access to tools but the tools I do have access to are superb so why not do it properly while I'm at it? Accuracy down to 0,01mm?

Rombus, I'm using Autodesk Inventor when designing the case so if you did convert those Sketchup files to Autocad I wouldn't mind access to them. They will fit Inventor as well. The tools I have access to supports Inventor...

Neat Berserk256, might have done the trick for me except I'm making more than one...

Yes ClayDo, www.formfactors.org works.

For all else who are looking for the bracket specs, here they are, based on ATX formfactor 2.2 from www.formfactors.org plus others. (Look in datasheet for ATX formfactor and you'll see what I mean by Datum (0,0).):

4,260 in Height from standoff to screw hole.
0,200 in Distance from motherboard backplane to screw hole.
0,3825 in Distance from screwhole to center of bracket cutout area.
0,500 in Recommended width of bracket cutout area.
0,800 in Distance between screwholes.
0,483 in Distance from Datum (0,0) to backplane.
5,112 in Distance from Datum (0,0) to screwhole closest to IO backplate.

Flecom, how about posting these specs in your list?

Your's, (-:b
 
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