Jonsbo 5 vapour silliness

[honegod]

the structure of the case is built of thin steel, but there is a thick plastic piece about 1" tall and the width of the case
being pretty .
so all the button, usb, and lights are all mounted to the steel, with the plastic bolted in front just to look nice.
it would be nice to be able to 3D print a replace unit with the four C sockets, but my printer cannot do 14" (case width).

 

[honegod]

jonsbo has nice fan grating, instead of little round holes it has biggish slots =more air, less steel.

I like what noctua does to this concept.

 

[honegod]

I took out the four screws out and removed the twin exaust fans assembly.
a 140mm fan has enough room of tall, but the second hits well before it runs into the PSU wall.
there is a hole in the motherboard base panel for the sata cables AND board power wires.
I mockedup wires to simulate sata cables, a selection of lengths of those thin blue sata cables is expected friday.
that cluster covers the X399m motherboards 8 sata plugs to the 8 HDDs with LED displayed at the front plastic strip.
the 4 drives in the removable cluster, largely hidden by the PSU, is planned for the M.2 sata array.

you can see the top ends of four 14TB 3.5 drives, the 5TB 2.5 rusting drives, in between each big drive, are hidden by the circuit board.

the row of holes along the bottom under the circuit board allows airflow from under the drive support plate.
that plate could use some airflow massage.

 

[honegod]

I quite like the Seasonic 850, but I would like the power sockets on the side we can see in the previous picture.
that would allow the power wire bundle to run along the bottom to the other side where the motherboard power sockets are above.
keeping the power away from the data.

since the 850 puts its wires stuffed directly into the 4 drive data array, moving that end away would be good.
the N5 utilizes a separate mount plate to bolt on the PSU, so the PSU pulls directly and easily. I LIKE that.
also, there were 8 motherboard mount spacers left over.
when assembled in pairs I have a set of 1/2" long, 6/32 thread, PSU spacers.
screw in them into the case holes, and then the PSU mount plate to them, and the power wires are .5" furthur away.

 

[honegod]

with the silver arrow sitting still on the CPU dust protector I put the aluminium case top.
the Arrow pipe top covers touch the case top.
BUT the six screws all fit easily, implying only a minor collision to deal with.

the Arrow has a beauty cap on each pipe, which is actually what contacts the case top.
the caps are added last after the fins, and have NO need to be ever removed, so I am not going to attempt to remove them.
filing the top end of the caps sound like the ticket, since it will be obvious when the pipe is exposed and filing operations cease.

I am amused that the cap spacing looks exactly as the spacing of the case vent holes.
if the hole was expanded to fit the cap without contact, I could end up with a couple rows of shiny dots at surface depth.

 

[honegod]

overkill is sometimes excessive.
instead of easy to build and cheap plastic the pipe covers are MACHINED STAINLESS STEEL.
plenty thick tall to cut in height, but tough to file delicately.

that took a while, leaving 15 left to file.
dremel time.

 

[honegod]

the Corsair RM1000x shift psu is what inspired the notion of the power sockets on the side instead of the end.
but, I want the sockets on the BOTTOM side, opposite the psu fan, not the side.
not available.

 

[honegod]

the PSU fits in place sideways between the sata circuit board and the exhaust fans, with air flow room.

need a use for the original PSU mount plate.

 

[honegod]

I looked for a Seasonic 850 titanium SFX PSU, because that would be much more shorter than the ATX psu device.
does not seem to exist.
so adding a 1" spacer allows about 2.5" room for all the power wires between the HDD wiring.

I plugged into the 5 hdd power sockets using sata and molex adapters, lots of wires not needed.
I look to run one set of wires going to all five sockets, sata and molex.