AmmoJammo

HDD is mounted backwards and moved slightly forward, with the front panel hiding all the cables.

Thanks! I spent HOURS trying to find a cooler that I thought could work, stumbled across the Silverstone, and found one BNIB, on ebay, from 2009!

It has two 80mm intake fans on the bottom, and two 70mm exhaust fans on the rear - its all I could fit!

There's also a card reader in the front, and the original front USB ports are functional (the audio aren't, yet, I may eventually wire them up)

I don't really like the CPU+Molex to PCIe power adapter I made, but it'll do for now!

I clearly had nothing better to do, So I proceeded to design a new replacement rear panel for a Shuttle XPC case, to house a Mini ITX motherboard, and 2 slot graphics card.
 
The prototype of the rear panel was 3d printed, and bent, to make sure the bend dimensions were correct, with the final version being made as an aluminium PCB (in China) that I then folded using a vise and hammer... 😆
 
It's running an old SilverStone NT01-E cooler, retrofitted to the AM4 CPU.
 
Specs aren't overly impressive, but its about the limit of the current 300 watt Seasonic PSU.
 
Ryzen 5600G
RTX 3050
16gig of whatever ram was cheapest
500gb Samsung 980
2tb 3.5inch - something..

super cool build! That silverstone CPU cooler is also amazing, fits like a glove. 😮
 

There are some "server-style" coolers that are rotated by default, like the Dynatron A19, maybe that's an option?

I built a wooden PC once... excuse the potato quality!

I built a wooden PC once... excuse the potato quality!

I built a wooden PC once... excuse the potato quality!

I built a wooden PC once... excuse the potato quality!

I built a wooden PC once... excuse the potato quality!

I'd like to see benchmark scores to compare it to my 2004 rig ;)