• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Designing a case

C

Crash2

Gawd
Joined
Apr 30, 2002
Messages
652
Has anyone ever done this?

I'm thinking of designing a pizzabox style case, putting the motherboard horizontally, and then having the hard drives and cd drives going underneath the motherboard, having ventilation going across the board and up out of the case.

If you have designed a case, what materials did you use, how much did it cost, and did you do any preliminary sketching? And do you have any recommendations?
 
if someone actually explains all of that, I'd be amazed. You're asking quite a bit there.

Just bust out cad or a painting program, get a design down that you like then start measuring stuff. If you're worried about cost, dont bother.
 
If you had one of these power supplies, you might be able to put it all in one layer, and fit it into a standard pizza box (although it'd have to be a box for one of those extra-large pizzas!!). Some 40mm fans along opposite sides should work to move air through the case, as long as you had a sufficient amount of them.

You'd almost have to go with one of those mini itx mobos, with the built in cpu, since even short heatsink/fan combos would be at least an inch high (for rackmount hsf combos). The Thermaltake Volcano 10 is 39mm high, or about an inch and a half tall. Add that to the 1/2" thickness of the mobo, socket, and cpu, and you'd have to have a box that was at least 2" tall, and even then you'd have to cut a hole in the top to allow you to suck air into the hsf. Also, get a mobo that has everything built into it (video, sound, lan), and don't expect to put any pci cards on it, since even low profile cards are going to be about 2 to 2.5 inches tall.

If you're not worried about performance, and just want to see if you can fit all the stuff required into a pizza box, you might consider an old Pentium 1 socket 7 board. Keep your cpu under 150 to 200 Mhz, and you won't require a fan on top of the heatsink. You can probably find one, maybe even with a cpu & heatsink, for under $25 shipped on fleabay. :cool:
 
It sounds like you're wanting to build a 1U computer. You'll need a 1U PSU (like someone has already linked to), 1U heatsink/fan, and riser cards if you want to use any AGP or PCI cards. Look around for 1U server equipment/accessories and I'm sure you'll find everything you need.
 
If you're just trying to make a computer and not worried about specs ill sell you a p3 (700 mhz i think), asus motherboard, and geforce 2 for $50.00 :)
 
I have one designed but when I looked into materials it was just too damn expensive for the steel and aluminum. Unless you are going to make it out of acryllic or if you have some free steel and aluminum around you're probably better off buying one and then modding it however you want.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top