Hi everyone
Looking at starting my project soon which involves housing pc in desk, decision has been made as my PC is in main living room and we having a bit of revamp over next few months, I have seen few builds on net ect, and wanted to ask few questions before I order few bits, let's start
PC will be placed in bottom drawer of desk, dimension W40cm, H39cm, D38cm behind the drawer there is further 10cm space towards back of desk when drawer is closed which should allow me to mount power supply, front of draw is fairly large which allows me to cut out front section to mount 2x 140mm intake fans and they should be covered with preforated aluminium sheet to cover them, back of drawer is also lower the front which should allow hot air to exhaust with out much of a problem
Hopping to fit my matx board on bottom of drawer and first question, would you mount motherboard on stands off which would be mounted directly on to bottom of drawer or I have spare pc case that I can cut up to use the (ATX plate), which option would be better? Due to rear been fairly open not sure if I need exhaust fans at this moment.
Another possible solution is convert that drawer to open cabinet style, mount sheet plywood on drawer runners that can just be pulled out, hmm not decided yet, will lay components out tomorrow and take few shots see how it looks.
Not much to look at yet hoping to have some pics soon.
Looking at starting my project soon which involves housing pc in desk, decision has been made as my PC is in main living room and we having a bit of revamp over next few months, I have seen few builds on net ect, and wanted to ask few questions before I order few bits, let's start
PC will be placed in bottom drawer of desk, dimension W40cm, H39cm, D38cm behind the drawer there is further 10cm space towards back of desk when drawer is closed which should allow me to mount power supply, front of draw is fairly large which allows me to cut out front section to mount 2x 140mm intake fans and they should be covered with preforated aluminium sheet to cover them, back of drawer is also lower the front which should allow hot air to exhaust with out much of a problem
Hopping to fit my matx board on bottom of drawer and first question, would you mount motherboard on stands off which would be mounted directly on to bottom of drawer or I have spare pc case that I can cut up to use the (ATX plate), which option would be better? Due to rear been fairly open not sure if I need exhaust fans at this moment.
Another possible solution is convert that drawer to open cabinet style, mount sheet plywood on drawer runners that can just be pulled out, hmm not decided yet, will lay components out tomorrow and take few shots see how it looks.
Not much to look at yet hoping to have some pics soon.
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