MATX cases

[richh999]

Well here are the teasers I promised, unfortunately I haven't been able to get time to cut the back in al on a cnc machine so you will have to do with the quick jigsaw half done one.

With most of the hardware in, missing a fan and 3 HD's. talk about needing cable managment.


Heres a shot with the temporary back.


So here it is all together.


and a shot of the internals, or as much as you can really see.


I still need to get a slim line dvd drive and I have been playing with the idea of putting a pico ITX in. I checked today and I do have space so I shall see as it would be quite nice to hae a dedicated machine for D/L and music.

Enjoy.

[Helmore]

Wow very nice.
Is it just me or do you have only one fan on your radiator?
Just out of curiosity, how much space is there between the top of the graphics cards and the side panel of the case? I'm wondering whether it's possible to install another radiator between the side panel and the graphics cards and then just make a hole in the side panel for ventilation. This would allow you to have a dedicated radiator just for your GPU('s).

[richh999]

Wow very nice.
Is it just me or do you have only one fan on your radiator?
Just out of curiosity, how much space is there between the top of the graphics cards and the side panel of the case? I'm wondering whether it's possible to install another radiator between the side panel and the graphics cards and then just make a hole in the side panel for ventilation. This would allow you to have a dedicated radiator just for your GPU('s).

Thanks. There is only one fan on the radiator as there is not enough space for a second as the graphics cards touch the radiator at the bottom end.

There is about 70mm from the top of the cards and side panel. This should be the same for the stock case. I was thinking of putting a 120GTS-Lite in there as that would fit but the hard drives at the bottom come up and so you would need to remake the whole of the bracket to raise where I've put my fan by a few cm.
I may just add the graphics cards into my loop as my cpu temps are at room temp as the radiator performs fine as negative pressure from the side fan and graphics cards pull air through the bottom.

[an0nym0us]

i built a nice E8400 @ 4.05ghz/8800GTS/74gb raptors in RAID 0 in a Lian-Li V350B last year and still love the thing. my friend bought it from me and still games on it today.

[Chewbenator]

I've been eying the red Lian li v351 lately. Might do a red and gold/yellow build but I already have a yellow wavemaster (full atx) gathering dust because of lack of new hardware. I'm also looking to make an i7 build in the fall which will be mATX because of what the DFI and GENE boards are capable of. Damn you lack of funds!

[foR]

Mini P180