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I've seen things as simple as a little drawer to things as bizarre as a mini toaster. What are some of your most practical or creative uses of an unused external 5.25" bay?

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Cup holder?

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Fan Controller, DVD drives, 

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Fan Controller, DVD drives, 

What is a dvd drive is that one of those floppy things? 

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you could get a drawer for USBs and other small things

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I use my unused 5.25" bays as unused 5.25" bays.

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What is a dvd drive is that one of those floppy things? 

Two blu-ray burners ftw 

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Two blu-ray burners ftw 

You must be one of those guys you get in every neighborhood. A pikey who burns movies and sells them for next to nothing to his mates. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Stick an optical drive in it (give it power so it can open and close) and use it as a cup holder.

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I had this idea of using a 5.25" bay to make a port bay for old controllers for emulators like SNES and Saturn.

 

Problem is I'm not sure how to make it look clean. I can do the ports easily, but I probabld can't make a smooth looking bay.

why do so many good cases only come in black and white

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I had this idea of using a 5.25" bay to make a port bay for old controllers for emulators like SNES and Saturn.

 

Problem is I'm not sure how to make it look clean. I can do the ports easily, but I probabld can't make a smooth looking bay.

3d print the front? That's actually a really cool idea!

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I had this idea of using a 5.25" bay to make a port bay for old controllers for emulators like SNES and Saturn.

 

Problem is I'm not sure how to make it look clean. I can do the ports easily, but I probabld can't make a smooth looking bay.

that's actually a really cool idea. i would buy it.

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You must be one of those guys you get in every neighborhood. A pikey who burns movies and sells them for next to nothing to his mates. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I've actually never burned a single blu ray yet in 9 months of owning them lol

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aNOTHER OPTICAL DRIVE!! 8D Because Mein Fazzer wants his DVDs ripped at twice the normal rate, even though he is one of the last people on earth who think CDs aren't obsolete.

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I had this idea of using a 5.25" bay to make a port bay for old controllers for emulators like SNES and Saturn.

 

Problem is I'm not sure how to make it look clean. I can do the ports easily, but I probabld can't make a smooth looking bay.

if it's the construction of the bay itself, then you'd 3d print it. If it's just the general aesthetics of having a load of ugly mismatched game controller ports on the front of your computer then you could have a little flip-down door like on R4 fronts.

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I had this idea of using a 5.25" bay to make a port bay for old controllers for emulators like SNES and Saturn.

 

Problem is I'm not sure how to make it look clean. I can do the ports easily, but I probabld can't make a smooth looking bay.

That's actually an excellent idea. I would for sure buy that.

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You want something original?

A Wii can practiclly fit inside. If you remove the casing it could potentially fit.

I don't know if a WiiU will fit. It doesn't look like (just checked), but I don't know if it's the casing that is larger due to it's round corners of the console, or the inside is actually larger, which won't make it fit.

 

Well, it's not great idea, but you said creative. And Nintendo consoles does have a bunch of AAA titles games that you can't get anywhere else, so it got that going.

If you can fit a WiiU that would be crazy, and probably easier, as it has HDMI out, so it will make your life easier to connect it to a monitor, unless your monitor is like mine where you have component and composite (Dell U2410), so a Wii will be no problem.

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Well see, here's the thing, it's actually a lot easier than it sounds

 

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This is a 4-port DS1/DS2 usb adapter sitting in a Bitfenix Prodigy 5.25 bay. If I remove the PCB, desolder the controller ports and reconnect them by wire, then all that would be left is the need to epoxy it all into a custom 5.25 cutout.

why do so many good cases only come in black and white

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Not exactly finished with it yet, however I've thrown a 7" lcd screen in my optical bay for rain meter, eventually it will show time/date, cpu and gpu temps along with any downloads in progress. So really what goes in your optical bay now CD's are hardly used is down to you, let your imagination run wild.

 

I had the screen lying around from a old project, but ebay is a good source for cheep LCD's if you are looking for one.

 

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Not exactly finished with it yet, however I've thrown a 7" lcd screen in my optical bay for rain meter, eventually it will show time/date, cpu and gpu temps along with any downloads in progress. So really what goes in your optical bay now CD's are hardly used is down to you, let your imagination run wild.

 

I had the screen lying around from a old project, but ebay is a good source for cheep LCD's if you are looking for one.

 

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this is amazing but since idk how would you control what the LCD  shows i.e is there software?

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