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Hi, So lets say I had a wall mount pc(or a shelf and the pc must go off desk to left of monitors, and back of pc must face away{farther left} to show RGB), and i was trying to minimize the wires going through my wall wire covers. Would i not just use a usb hub for my mouse, keyboard, bluetooth dongle, and drawing tablet, possible webcam, and speakers?

How it started... When I got this Mainboard from a otherwise broken Dell Laptop, I initially wanted to hide that under a desk as kind of a slim invisible PC. It´s not new, not overpowered or something like that, but it sports a Core i7-8850H with 6 Cores /12 Threads, 2666 Mhz DDR4 Memory - so it´s perfectly fine as a daily driver for Web and Office Stuff... Well... as I´m currently kind of obsessed with WLED (which is a free Firmware for cheap ESP8266 / ESP32 Microcontrollers that can control hundreds of individually adressable RGB and RGBW LEDs) I decided that I rather want to have some RGB added, which makes no sense if the whole thing is under a desk... So I kept the Idea of extra cooling with 2 self adhesive coolers on top of the Heatpipe + 2 Noctua 40mm 5V Fans, added a Backplate for Wall-Mount and 52 LEDs in Total. The Soldering: The ESP32 Controller and the plugs for the LEDs had to go into some kind of housing, so I designed and 3D-Printed a quick' n'dirty Case solution that goes on the back of the Wall-PC. I´m not really that much into soldering and attaching all the LED Channels to the controller GPIO was hard enough so luckily I had this 4 to 1 Adapter I could just stick the cables into.. I later added a 7th LED Channel for an LED Ring under the CPU Fan - maybe to show CPU Temps or load with corresponding colors? Test-Fit... That begins to look like ... well.. a .. Computer of some sort.. :D. Since the Noctua Fans are 5V instead of 12V I can power them by USB, I just add a mechanical Switch to just turn them on when needed. In Case anyone wondering what those Drives are... Top Left: 1 TB WD Blue M.2 SATA SSD - interestingly the Mainboard supports using an M.2 SATA SSD in the WWAN Slot (although it should normally be a 2242 length one). Bottom Right: That´s what a 2 TB Samsung 860 Evo 2,5" SSD looks like without the Case. Bottom Left: Samsung PM9A1 NVME m.2 SSD 512 GB Where´s the Power Button??? OK here comes the "if it works it can´t be that stupid"-Part... There IS a Power-Button, But it´s on the other Side of the Mainboard, just left of the LAN-Port. So bending the Mainboard to reach it was not a solution. and I didn´t want to print any kind of mini rocker switch... So Step one: Set the PC to Wake on AC in the BIOS... So i now turns on automatically when it has power... Call the Assistant... OK here comes the weird part.. I´ve setup the WallPC to turn on via Wake on LAN as well. And since I use Home Assistant (on a Raspberry Pi4) for my Smarthome anyway incl. some Wireless Zigbee Switches to turn on some LEDs -> Now one of these Switches turn can on the Lights at my desk with a single touch and when I press it for 2 Seconds it will turn on the WallPC. Or I can press the button on the Home Assistant Dashboard in the App of course.. What about the LEDs then? For anyone who doesn´t know WLED - You can control the LEDs via WLAN with a browser or an app, you have 100+ animated Effects, you can define Segments, Preset, Timer etcetc.. AND - there is also a Home Assistant Integration. Not that spectacular yet...but.. there is a Home Assistant Agent for installing on Windows, that can forward Information about the PC to Home Assistant via MQTT, which means you can automate some stuff... For starters I have set up a sensor to tell my Home Assistant the CPU-Load (not in Realtime, update every 5s) of the Wall PC, which then can be used to switch the LED Presets. The Picture above was taken during a Cinebench Run. So the WallPC tells Home Assistant: CPU-Load above 80% -> WLED loads the Preset "RED" for the Leds. When it´s below 80% and above 30% ist will load the Preset "Yellow" and below 30% it will load the Preset "Green". Looking forward to play around with even more settings.. I could e.g. use the "Red, Yellow, Green" for Free Disk Space for the Drives and color the Edges of the Frame respectively... Or I can let all the LEDs blink like fireworks If I get the E-Mail that my LTT Screwdriver has been shipped... Let me know if you like it - or if you have any overclocking Idea.. As the Dell Latitude Mainboard has zero settings for that - I started to play around a little with throttlestop - the Maximum I could achive was a 3 GHz AllCore at steady 75 degrees celsius with my added Noctua Fans. So it´s rather Throtteling due to Power not Temps.. And of course if you want to know any more detail, just ask - I just didn´t want to add a loooong boring article here.. Regards from Germany!

So I am planning on building a PC inside an sl600m. I don't have anywhere to put the PC, so im planning on buying a shelf and putting it on there. My only concern is that it will be next to a wall, and hence its air intake is on the bottom, i don't know if it will have enough space for air there. I am planning on AIO water cooler (NZXT Kraken 63X), and i dont want negative pressure in my case. any suggestions? Open to other cases up to 200 USD, (with similar cooling performance). My only idea to get better airflow is to get a shelf with a big hole in the middle of it so the PC would get air from there.

New project, tho this time it's going to be used soon as it is completed! Wonder Woman ''Floating'' Wall-pc CPU: 8600k MOBO: ROG STRIX Z370-I GPU: EVGA FTW GTX 1080 PSU: EVGA R3 1000W Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB m.2 Water, and couple fittings with monoblocks, done You should follow this, it's going to be pretty cool. If you dont believe me take a look at this image, it's clear indicator how good my plan is!