Worklog: Home made Case from Zero on MDF
Hi. I started another wooden case, here my old wood case for the downloads PC almost finished:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=181681
Now, the new gamer wood case, this is the hardware
PSU: Topower 550 Watts modular
Mother: Biostar GF7050V-M7 SE (mATX)
Processor: e7200 (2.52) @ 3.86 Ghz STABLE
VGA: Sapphire HD 4850 @ stock (not test OC yet)
Memory: 2x1gb OCZ 800 Mhz c4
Disk: 2x160gb Sata 8mb buffer RAID 0
PCI 1: Wifi Encore card
PCI 2: Sound Blaster Audigy SE @ X-FI Extreme Audio
Fans: Enermax 120mm 44 cfm @ 17 CFM (2) and (1) Evercool of 6cm
Materials:
MDF: $ 35.08
Spray Rust Oleum: $ 16.05 (x2, black and white)
Spray Krylon: $0, left red from old mod
Autoadhesiv legs: $ 4.60 the 4.
Hinges: $0, left from old mod
Opening System: Left one push and open from old mod
Rollers: $0, left from old mod
Tape Role: $ 4,40
Wax: $9,15, to pass when i finish the mod
Total: $ 85,33 (pesos argentinos) (27 dollars)
Left to add the buttons for power and reset that i've to buy
The idea, its to do the smallest, silent, Oced, and good cooled case possible.
To minimize the size, i wont gona put DVDrw, if i've to use DVD I used one by USB. But been the gamer pc, I only need teh dvd to install the games :p
The Material to use is MDF of 9mm (3.54 inches)
The final measures will be:
Height: [B] 36 cm [/ B] [B] X [/ B] Depth: [B] 34 cm [/ B] [B] X [/ B] Width: 20 cm
In inches: 14.17 x 13.39 x 7.87
The hardware disposition will be like the picture
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/6...iormobofs2.jpg
I decided to put the board upside down, because the HD4850, its the more hottest hardware from all the case, so being near the PSU, will help to rapidly take out the hot air.
The system, will be cooled by only 2 12cm fan (4,72 inches), one on the front puting air inside and passing throw the hdds and keep going straight to the CPU cooler, and continue going out like a tunnel over another fan on the back of the case, taking out rapidly the hard disk and proccesor heat working like a wind tunnel.
I will also put and small fan on the nortbridge
Here some pictures with what i do today
Here wood without paint job:
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/6233/maderaska6.jpg
Here with the primer from one side:
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/6...oblancooi0.jpg
And here with the primer some hours later from the other side:
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9...lancoatkn0.jpg
Tomorrow i'll paint the corners, and start to think on the painting design, something simply this time, not like the last mod for the PC of downloads, here the worklog of the other case:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=181681
I'll be keep posting with updates
