Hi folks
This is rather ghetto/amateurish/bodging however you want to refer to it. Thought I'd share as the more info we have, the more right decisions we can make and the wrong ones we can avoid!
So this is Bodgebox, a larger gallery with more images can be found here.
I'd just decorated my new cave and was a bit annoyed at my Corsair 540 air case, cables everywhere coming out the back of it but most of all I wasn't happy having it on the desk, or under it and although I considered wall mounting it that just seemed silly. Then I spotted this whilst in the shed one saturday morning:
As it happens I was stuck at home with my 4 year old all day so I took it into the house and as she played Minecraft on my phone I ripped the bookshelve apart and put it back together as this:
A bit of trimming and some paint to match my wall colours, then a few days later I drilled the holes, which if I'm honest weren't really measured with much care.
Realising the grey paint would look a little too obvious I went for a cheap laminate I could apply, yes literally disguising wood.. as slightly different wood (I didn't get my username for nothing).
Got to say it turned out surprisingly well for £7 and I only used about 10% of it.
Next I had to figure out some vaguely neat way to cable it, this was my first attempt, I made it marginally less tidy later by adding more kit. Idleman sent me a spare ATX motherboard tray he had for beer money, top lad!
Bodgebox was then mounted on heavy duty runners available at B&Q for £14 and fitted underneath my worktop. Done.
The reason for the runners is simple, if I need to get access, I can simply pull it forward.
Still have some dust filters to get for the fans, but over all I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Cables typically go through the wall to above the worktop to minimise clutter and CPU/GPU temps are extremely good. I wasn't sure about having intakes at the back, by my thinking was that if I had intakes at the front all the warm air was going to end up stuck under the worktop, where as now it's moved into the room and out of the velux window just behind me.
Biggest improvement though - sound, being under 1.5inch of wood has more or less removed all sound from the PC and I genuinely can't hear when it's on.
This is rather ghetto/amateurish/bodging however you want to refer to it. Thought I'd share as the more info we have, the more right decisions we can make and the wrong ones we can avoid!
So this is Bodgebox, a larger gallery with more images can be found here.
I'd just decorated my new cave and was a bit annoyed at my Corsair 540 air case, cables everywhere coming out the back of it but most of all I wasn't happy having it on the desk, or under it and although I considered wall mounting it that just seemed silly. Then I spotted this whilst in the shed one saturday morning:
As it happens I was stuck at home with my 4 year old all day so I took it into the house and as she played Minecraft on my phone I ripped the bookshelve apart and put it back together as this:
A bit of trimming and some paint to match my wall colours, then a few days later I drilled the holes, which if I'm honest weren't really measured with much care.
Realising the grey paint would look a little too obvious I went for a cheap laminate I could apply, yes literally disguising wood.. as slightly different wood (I didn't get my username for nothing).
Got to say it turned out surprisingly well for £7 and I only used about 10% of it.
Next I had to figure out some vaguely neat way to cable it, this was my first attempt, I made it marginally less tidy later by adding more kit. Idleman sent me a spare ATX motherboard tray he had for beer money, top lad!
Bodgebox was then mounted on heavy duty runners available at B&Q for £14 and fitted underneath my worktop. Done.
The reason for the runners is simple, if I need to get access, I can simply pull it forward.
Still have some dust filters to get for the fans, but over all I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Cables typically go through the wall to above the worktop to minimise clutter and CPU/GPU temps are extremely good. I wasn't sure about having intakes at the back, by my thinking was that if I had intakes at the front all the warm air was going to end up stuck under the worktop, where as now it's moved into the room and out of the velux window just behind me.
Biggest improvement though - sound, being under 1.5inch of wood has more or less removed all sound from the PC and I genuinely can't hear when it's on.
