Just messing around with an old box from my R9 290 from a few years ago and had an idea. Why not use a box instead of a normal case?
After about 10 minutes with a pair of scissors and a screwdriver, i had attached a 120mm fan to the top and a 90mm to the front.
no room to mount a psu inside as the box is too short. decided to just set the box on top of it.
cut a small hole to route cables into the case.
going for a true price-performance build here. Running linux mint 18.2 "Sonya" with an FX 4100, 4gb DDR3-1033, a 250gb seagate hdd, and a stock amd cooler from that cpu (took the 80mm fan off) cooled by the top case fan.
Found some garbage psu and taped it to the bottom. One half-height R5-230 later and its running like a dream. Not super quiet, or super cheap, but it was a fun experiment to do in class.
Current Personal Specs: Ryzen 7 2700X @ 4.2 | Gigabyte RTX 2070 | 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3000mhz | Thermaltake View 37 | ADATA XPG 128GB PCI-E SSD | 4TB 7200RPM HP Server HDD | WD Blue 7200RPM 1TB | Hitachi 7200RPM 1TB | Windows 10 Home / CentOS 7 dual boot
