Monster Case - Progress Log

Looks like a good starting point, a rad top like the bottom of my case maybe?

how do you intend on screwing expansion cards down as your new back plate will sit flush as I'm assuming you don't want the cost of have the material pressed to the correct shape. I'd you haven't though about of yet I'd suggest something as simple as a biy pf aluminium angle bolted to the inner of the back plate.

and again if your trying to keep cost down try local schools and colleges to see if they have laser cutting equipment, ive been told quite a few are willing to help. this might mean having it done in acrylic though as going from when I left school we didn't have the equiptment for doing sheet metal.

any way sorry for rambling but give me a shout if you need any help.
 
frozennova said:
how do you intend on screwing expansion cards down as your new back plate will sit flush as I'm assuming you don't want the cost of have the material pressed to the correct shape.
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Much easier solution (which I just thought of), acquire 2 of these (have one already), hack one to bits to extend the other :D

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Cheap and most importantly simple :D
 
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Upto now the most gpu's on one motherboard I have had is 3, now even on a double spaced pcie slot board that meant the gpu's were practically touching each other.
As a result, running Boinc flat out, the gpu's in slot 1 and 2 got so hot that there was no way I could leave them like that long term, they just would not have lasted long.
And when I say hot the casing's actually burnt your fingers.

So here the idea is to have more gpu's installed at the same time as having some space inbetween them for air to circulate.
 
A Lian-Li PC60 Plus, bought it off a guy on the bay who spoilt the case so sold it for parts.
I bought it with the backplate and the motherboard tray attached as I thought it might come in useful one day.
So the plan was/is to get a new back panel, have the L-shaped hole cut out (and a couple of fan outlets) and then bolt this on.
It cost less than it would have cost to buy an i/o sheild new.
 
Looks good frozennova, I'll follow with interest, I've been keen to make a custom mini-itx case for a while but lack the knowledge at the moment, hopefully I can learn from this.

Where are you getting your materials from?
 
Dekez
head over to HTTP://formfactors.org

that'll give you the atx specs to work from for your mini itx case, than the mobo tray size which wickipedia has, and number of expansion slots are the only differences.

materials are coming from aluminiumwarehouse.co.uk and theres another place i was looking at for plastics but im browsing on my phone so will post it sometime tomorrow.

there's a couple of minor changes I'm going to make to the side panel to leave my self with less fabrication on the framework.
 
halz said:
Upto now the most gpu's on one motherboard I have had is 3, now even on a double spaced pcie slot board that meant the gpu's were practically touching each other.
As a result, running Boinc flat out, the gpu's in slot 1 and 2 got so hot that there was no way I could leave them like that long term, they just would not have lasted long.
And when I say hot the casing's actually burnt your fingers.

So here the idea is to have more gpu's installed at the same time as having some space inbetween them for air to circulate.
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Easy answer, don't use air :)

Frozenova: for the 4 cpu AMD mobos you will need more height above the IO ports. Or make the back panel changeable so that you can have different ones for different mobos.
 
Thanks for the info Biffa, all the panels will be fixes using countersunk cap head bolts so it'll be a 30 second job swapping the rear panel over.

what reason so theu need the extra height if you don't mind?
 
would a pci-e x16 extender cable work with GPUs for folding? you could space out the cards a bit more then although you might have to move the positions of the extension slots
 
I dont see why a riser cable wouldnt work but its not a particularly tidy solution, better off doing if properly if you ask me.
 
frozennova said:
Dekez
head over to HTTP://formfactors.org

that'll give you the atx specs to work from for your mini itx case, than the mobo tray size which wickipedia has, and number of expansion slots are the only differences.

materials are coming from aluminiumwarehouse.co.uk and theres another place i was looking at for plastics but im browsing on my phone so will post it sometime tomorrow.

there's a couple of minor changes I'm going to make to the side panel to leave my self with less fabrication on the framework.
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Thanks for that, you've got me wanting to build something now! :)
 
loudbob said:
Hold Up - I'm only just starting to catch you as it is......
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Don't worry it'll be a while if at all, I may have to up my game a bit and sneak into 3rd place before you catch me though, at least then I can say I was there at some point!
 
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