Building a Wooden case, Disadvantages?

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Are there any major disadvantages in having a wooden case? Apart from weight?

Really fancy designing a wooden case as it would look flush with everything else wooden in my house.
 
Not too bothered about the weight, It will be sat alongside my TV unit and will stay there.

Wood will be the main outsides, However the HDD's will be in a cage pulled from an antec along with the fan. Cpu is watercooled and the rad will be mounted internally but with a fan. Psu will be getting air directly from the outside.

Will I notice that much of a temperature difference?
 
Perfectly doable, just make sure you have decent airflow. Advantages... cheap, and i don't know about you but i find woodwork a lot easier than metalwork.
Yeah, The plan was a 2 level cube sort of thing. The mobo would lie flat on the top level, With i window in the roof looking into it along with some cathodes hidden, Possibly 2 x 120mm fans on this level.

The bottom level would house everything else basically, Including the radiator for the Watercooled CPU and (if i built the case) GPU. Psu would be directly taking in air from outside. HDD's would be mounted in an Antec HDD cage with a fan. And the radiator taking in cool air. Would also have quite a few holes drilled for exhausting all this air.

Means I could also hide all the wires.
 
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