Explicity Project

[4rtex]

Hello everyone!

It's been a while.....

I would like to share this thing I've been working on recently. I have previously shared it with SFF community and it has been renamed to "dead space", generally disliked for being too big - not to standard basically

Explicity is a 22 litre enclosure with some design principles in mind. It's all aluminium, made in Stoke

• has to be thermally efficient
• has to be easy to build in - don't want to build the case around the components
• can't have a PCIe riser cable
• can't have a PSU extension cable
• be relatively small

So, what can fit inside

• ITX motherboard
• SFX-L power supply
• 280mm AIO or 155mm tower air cooler
• RTX4090FE

I hope you enjoy looking at it. I have no intention of changing it, because I like it for all the aspects

I am now browsing Overclockers for RTX4070 Super to utilise the space, can't afford the 4090 yet .

***Sorry I thought I could link the images from my Google Drive. Will edit as soon as I can link photos***

 

[4rtex]

I hope we can marge this post with the first one. I didn’t know about the 120 minute rule, apologies

 

[4rtex]

I thought I'd share the dimensions of this enclosure.

330mm (L) x 238 (W) x 273 (H)

In comparison The NR200 is

376mm (L) x 185 (W) x 292 (H)

As much as I appreciate SFF builds, and man, some of them are impressive, they all generally restrict the components. I get SFF for low spec PC, but the top end requires custom approach for anything that small. The idea of my build was to try to find balance.

The idea of placing the PSU behind the motherboard is still there, I'm bouncing some design ideas in CAD, it would make the case 15 litre, but the PSU will blow hot air to the inside or draw hot air from the inside.

The space behind the motherboard; GPU's recently have a flow through cooling design, so all these SFF sandwich builds have the GPU blow hot air straight at the PSU. Why do the designers ignore it? For the sake of few litres of volume. This space here is so that doesn't happen. The below image is an 4070 Super Gaming X Slim. Would you buy this now or wait for the 5xxx and then buy it?

This layout also doesn't require any intake fans. My preference is less fans

Some background info
1) Designed in Solidworks. Sheet metal fabrications is my background so I just design something I know I can make straight away. It makes it easy for the sub-contractor.
2) PM me for the name of the business that made this in Stoke - it's "around the corner" from OCUK
3) This enclosure is laser cut and formed from 2mm thick aluminium sheet 5251 grade. It's components are fastened by M3 screws. The threaded inserts I used are self clinch flush nuts. They require a dedicated machine to insert.
4) Finished in black powder coat, majority is textured satin finish. The side panels are semi gloss dark grey.
5) Under the bottom panel is 5mm thick large rubber sheet. There are no holes in the bottom.
6) It's not cheap stuff I must admit. This particular prototype would cost around 0.5k but pricing varies greatly between sub-contractors.

Long term dream would be to design a custom full copper heatsink for the GPU so that it takes the entire space on the side of the GPU. I probably won't ever do it, it's just going to be too expensive

I was looking at building my own case as I couldn't find one to fit my rather odd needs, but then luckily found one (log coming soon) and it was only £41

Looking forward to this!