What do you think of my "water cooling" case design?

[Gone Cruising]

Hey mick,

Any news yet?

BTW, what size did you end up with on the case when adding the dual cpu mobo?

I ended up with 300mm W x 648mm H x 615 D (11.8"W x 25.5" H x 24.21" D) So far I have redesigned the case about 16 times since last October....man it was hard to get all the screw holes correct and to get everything to fit and where to mount stuff.

Im building the first one for a co-worker and he has two 360 Fessers (bottom compartment) so the need for 300mm wide was needed. I would need to go taller to fit a rad up top (top/bottom different sizes), about 7 mm, which I should have done (back to the drawing board to make them even)

Going this wide 300mm you should be able to fit dual rads up top and dual on the bottom....4 loops would be nice with the dual socket. Of course im using acrylic which is thicker material...

What did you find were the spec's for the dual socket mobo?

Here's a pic with it 60% done. (acrylic and aluminum angle)

[DeltZ]

How does one go about finding out all the internal measurements of a case?
Taking a ruler to a case seems exceedingly difficult :P

Have wondered this in the past.

And how do you fabricate it?

There's only so much a CNC mill can do. How do you do metal folds for strength etc...

Custom case sounds really fun ^^ But it seems impossible to do without some complex processes.

Sorry if this has been asked or something within the last 21 pages...

[Gone Cruising]

How does one go about finding out all the internal measurements of a case?
Taking a ruler to a case seems exceedingly difficult :P

Have wondered this in the past.

And how do you fabricate it?

There's only so much a CNC mill can do. How do you do metal folds for strength etc...

Custom case sounds really fun ^^ But it seems impossible to do without some complex processes.

Sorry if this has been asked or something within the last 21 pages...

Deltz, often times you can find components people have made to spec in google sketchup. You import those components such as a mobo, psu's, rads, etc. and build around them. Adding other components as you go along. Cases can be as small as the components allow or as big as you want them to be. I don't work with metal yet and specialize in acrylic, so I can't help you there.

Taking a ruler to all components is what I have had to do over the past 6 months to get the excact spec's for components (H x L x W plus mounting hole distances). I've uploaded a few onto google sketchup's warehouse under Gone Cruising. You finr hundreds of others.

Google sketchup is perfect software to start your designs and it's free!!!

[Ch3ck5um]

Hey mick,

Any news yet?

BTW, what size did you end up with on the case when adding the dual cpu mobo?

I ended up with 300mm W x 648mm H x 615 D (11.8"W x 25.5" H x 24.21" D) So far I have redesigned the case about 16 times since last October....man it was hard to get all the screw holes correct and to get everything to fit and where to mount stuff.

Im building the first one for a co-worker and he has two 360 Fessers (bottom compartment) so the need for 300mm wide was needed. I would need to go taller to fit a rad up top (top/bottom different sizes), about 7 mm, which I should have done (back to the drawing board to make them even)

Going this wide 300mm you should be able to fit dual rads up top and dual on the bottom....4 loops would be nice with the dual socket. Of course im using acrylic which is thicker material...

What did you find were the spec's for the dual socket mobo?

Here's a pic with it 60% done. (acrylic and aluminum angle)

Wow! thats looking really good!

[konkhra]

@Mick64 I apologize if this has been asked or mentioned before, but I ran into this problem recently and I noticed it here: The areas for the rads appear to be tight for 12omm fans, is or was there consideration made for rads larger than 120mm? I think my BI Gtx's are 135mm and it caused me some issues in my case(dremel ftw!).