JFAllen

Desk and screen space space is king,

Is 2008 retro? If so: My Cosmos-S; the best full tower PC case ever made Case handles on a large full tower are sooooo good.

i7-12700K / RX6900XT all in a Xaser. 3x 4TB HDD's, 2 NVME's, DVD Burner and USB3/C front panel Unfortunately, the 90mm rear exhaust, and 80mm top fan were not enough to keep the whole show cool It's now in a Cosmos-S with 360mm AIO on the CPU.

Love it. What are your plans for peripheral connectivity? Specifically front USB-A / C? Have you considered how you will manage cable slack so you can slide the drawer in and out for servicing?

I'd first have to get a twitter account... Having succeeded thus far in avoiding twitter, I can't see that happening. The monitors were all (aside from the 2 Acer's) were all purchased at different times. I'd like to be able to justify $4,000AUD on 4 brand new Dell 144Hz 4k screens. But that's jsut not going to happen unfortunately. so the mis-match will remain.

After last building a 'new-pc' in 2014 The time had come in February 2022 to build a new rig. While the PC was built quickly (into a Xaser Thermaltake case initially,) the rest of the components took the better part of a year all to come together (finding the correct desk and a +15 year old case in good condition take time.) The goal was to have a home-office / gaming-dungeon setup was as clean as possible (fewest visible cables / nothing crass / only essential lighting visible,) while housing modern components with modern conveniences (front USB-3 / front type-c / card readers...) in a cool and quiet fashion in (in my opinion) the best case ever made: the one the only Cosmos-S. Budget (including currency): Don't want to think about it Country: Adelaide, Australia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mining Engineer (Deswik / Ventsim / lots of excel) + some SWTOR/Factorio/PUB-G Other details: Where to start... Base hardware Case: Cosmos-S ex. 2008 Mobo: MSI Z690-A Pro Wifi CPU: i7-12700k CPU-Cooler: MSI MAG 360R V2 RAM: 64GB DDR5 4800 (it was early days of DDR5) PSU: MSI MAG 850GF Storage: 1TB Gen-4 SSD, 2TB Gen-3 SSD, 4x4TB 7200 Barracuda's in RAID5, 256GB SATA scratch disk GRFX: Asus Tuff R6900XT MSI ThunderboltM4 8K add in card Optical: LG Blu-Ray Burner front panel expansion: EZDIY-FAB card reader / USB-C / USB-3A rear panel expansion: 2x USB-3A header Case fans: whatever I had lying around Peripherals Keyboard: Wooting2 HE with SA keycaps Mouse: G203 Mat: Coolermaster deskmat and wrist rest Speakers: HK Sound Sticks Mic - random desk mic Headset (used occasionally) SteelSeries? Printer: CLX-620FX Laptop Asus Strix Monitors: Acer 28"4k 60HZ / Dell 32" 4k 144Hz / Phillips 32" 4k 60Hz all supported by VESA mount arms. Webcam: Microsoft? USB hub: Amazon special 4-port USB-3.0A under the hole in the desk for KB and Mouse + other. With extra USB 3.0 hubs in the Phillips and Dell monitors. Desk: 3 months of hunting on marketplace and gumtree for the perfect sized corner desk. as it needed to allow fitment of my filing cabinet and printer) As anyone that has had a Cosmos-S in the past, you'll be aware of the capacitive (soft touch) power button. Back in the day the case came with a special patch cable to splice into the PSU's harness to make the whole show work. Well when I picked mine up 15 years and and unknown number of owners later, it didn't come with one... Thankfully a mad punter made a video about it and boom works a treat (link.) You can see the splice I made in the images below. Other than that the Cosmos-S is a beast and was a genuine pioneer back in the day with regards to accommodation of 360mm rads. It's not a small case (it is indeed a full tower,) but I need the HDD space, optical drive and room for more HDD space in the future (can add an additional 5 x 3.5" caddy into the spare 3 x 5.25 bays.) I loved this case back in the day, but couldn't afford it (was really pricy here in Australia,) but the itch never went away. Now all these years later it still looks great (in my opinion) and with the addition of a front I/O device, it's fully usable in 2023 (don't need the eSATA or Firewire any more.) While the Cosmos line still exists from Coolermaster today, it's not quite the same as the O.G design from 2008. Also, the handles aren't just for show and really help when you have to move it around, with the lower rails keeping it up off the ground for case and PSU intake. It's really quiet, it keeps excellent temps and has all the expansion options / I/O options I need in a modern PC. As for the rest of the setup. Desk space is king fore me (an older hidden pc,) thus getting the monitors up off the desk and the case on the floor was the best way to accomplish this once I found the right desk. Went to town with cabling the rest of the setup, so that no cables are visible other than the keyboard and mouse. Cable management options in the case back in the day however, weren't what they are today, so did the best I could given the high cable load in the case. Since the side panel is mesh with a 200mm fan, it's good enough. Along with it not being visible due to it's location in the room. Hope you like it. It wasn't cheap and took some time to get perfect. But sometimes you just need to get the setup right. Regards Jordan

From www.theinquirer.net Link VideoCardz article Happy New year Jordan

This post was more of a friendly reminder, and to let them know the community never forgets a promise .

^^No worries

FP member as well. Thought I'd give them 2 days grace (in Aus so it's Dec.10 now) I knew it'd be a long shot to get it out exactly 1 year to the day. Regards Jordan

As in the title. was initially uploaded to youtube December-8, 2016. Been hanging out for this all year? Please don't tell me it got choped when you renovated the warehouse? Regards Jordan

That was (and sort of still is) a concern. However the desk is very deep, and the PC is offset to the side. *shouldn't be an issue...* (I hope)

Hello All, I got excited last night after I found an old beige box down at my shed and decided to clean up my desk and create an open air, suspended, under-desk PC. I've always wanted to overclock my old i5-4670k , but have never been able to due to it being mounted in my old Cardboard-PC. I also recently picked up a GTX-690 for cheap, so it was time for a new 'case' for my daily driver. Specs as follows: i5-4670k @4.3GHz (Can boot at 4.4 and 4.5, but just can't get it stable :(, still happy with the 900MHz overclock on the basic M-ITX board however.) GA-Z87N-WiFi MoBo 8GB DDR3-1600 240GB SSD 500 GB + 2TB HDD's Gigabyte ODIN Pro 800W PSU Gigabyte GTX-690 Intel 2x2 Wireless AC adaptor Noctua NH-U9S CPU Cooler HP $24 wireless keyboard and mouse combo (don't judge me, it works and it's cheap :)) Energy C5 floor standing front speakers, Bose Satellite Surround Denon AVR-2870 AV receiver using hacked realtek drivers for DTS-Live The build came together like this: Step1 Find an old beige box and hack out the important mounting hardware and on button Step2: Start the layout process on the underside of the desk. Make sure to have marked where the underside table supports go to you don't have clearance issues. Step3: Affix the mounting hardware to the table using flat head screws so that you don't have interference issues. Step4: Nout your CPU cooler before checking for graphics card clearance (turns out there is about a cigarette papers clearance in this case between the graphics card, and jusssst enough room to get the cpu power plug in.) Step5: Get everything else mounted up and star running cables Step6: http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww5/manitoublack/Under Desk PC/7_zps1hjtylvz.jpg[/img] Remember that everything is going to be hanging from the under side of a desk, so it is important to secure all your cables. Zip-ties and screw-in hooks are your friends here. Step7: Very carfully with your mate, turn the desktop over and start hooking up all the power cables and doing your best to manage them Step8: Enjoy your cable free desktop and infinitely expandable hidden PC. Plans in the future are to change out the M-ITX Haswell system for something more modern (probably the next intel revision.) But for now it runs the games I play perfectly well and gives me a large and clean workspace for study and the mining engineering work I do. Total cost of the build was $12AUD at the hardware store for the screws, hooks and a 4" cutoff angle grinder wheel. Thanks for reading and enjoy your builds:) Regards Jordan

Tempted to get a GTX690 (can be had for <$300AUD on ebay at the moment. $ for $ nothing comes close. But at 1080p, the GTX295 still holds its own in the games I play (many years ago I bought 2 on release when I was working as a mining Engineer, but one has since died .) my i7-920 with 2GTX295's in a Silverstone HTPC case from early 2009 (after I cable managed it) (and before)

Hello All, My name is Jordan and I've been toying with PC's for far too long and some time ago built a rather unique case for an ITX system. In 2009 or 10 (yeah it was a while ago) a friend challenged me to construct a workable case using nothing but: Cardboard String Tape Glue Velco for securing the lid. I suggested it would work better if I could cannibalise an old AOpen grey box as a skeleton for mounting hardware, and some stick on rubber feet. It was also required to have a working power/reset button and easy access USB ports for flash drives. It was agreed, we shook hands and the build begun. The old AOpen case cut down to simply an ITX sized motherboard tray and graphics card bracket; (the power/reset button+activity lights were also used.) This was glued to what would become the floor of the case. Much laughter a few hours and several beers later it was complete with plastic wrap case window and all. Including room for a full sized externally cooled graphics card. As you can see, string (which I might add is still there) was used to hold the I/O cage in place. You can also see that there are motherboard standoffs and a place to properly mount a hdd (now SSD.) Originally it was built using a GT240 card (for testing) but this was soon traded out for a dual GPU Radeon 5990. This was all powered by the worst PSU I've ever used, some random spare 550W disaster from my mates chain smoking brother. You can see it in all it's shiny glory Despite our fears it run without failure playing Crysis 1. However it must be noted that it smelt foul (nicotine, dust, and filth I can't imagine, all being roasted under full load.) It must be noted that the PSU acts as the only case/cpu exhaust. It is a genuine wonder that that PSU never missed a beat. As it was first put to task. As the innards were loan equipment from my mate, I had to give them back about 4 months later, and then the case sat idle for many years, but was briefly put to task as a media PC for another buddy while I was overseas. However like the old axe in the shed this thing with its many heads and many handles is still the same old axe, and for the last 2 years it's been my daily driver. in more or less the same configuration. i5-4670k Silverstone 450W SFF PSU Gigabyte GA-Z87n-WiFi 256GB Samsung SSD GTX295 16GB DDR3 Wireless AC 2x2 intel chip -Updates include a slot cut in the top of the case to exhaust the GTX 295 (2014) -Top mount USB-3.0 (2013 rebuild) -GTX590 (for the last 2 months but it failed (or is playing silly buggers as of tonight, so the GTX295 is back in.) Had to run an external more beefy PSU for the GTX590. It's also collected a few stickers over the years: (and a GTX480 heat spreader) It's been to many a LAN events in Adelaide/Melbourne, (even won a few awards,) and never really had any issues. It's never caught fire or smoked. just hums along minding its own business, serving me well I recently got given a 2008 LGA1366 i7 system, that I'm kind of keen to build a cardboard tower for. Once again using a metal skeleton for safe and secure mounting, but that my take a while... Regards Jordan