DeskPC build

[devo93]

Hi,
just found out there's also a LTT forum. LTT really inspired me to build a PC myself when they released their Desk-PC video. I really enjoyed building and planning it and I'm quite pleased with the result. Since LTT practically taught me how to build a pc I thought I'll share it with you.

 

Immediately after watching the desk-PC video I knew I wanted one too so I started thinking about how I could build it and how it should look like. 
Once I had a good plan in my head I started modeling all the components of the PC to figure out all the cable lengths and other important measurements.

  

 

 

Fortunately there's a maker space close to where I live so I had the opportunity to cnc mill all big parts out of plywood.

 

 

 

I also modeled and 3d printed multiple smaller parts for the PC but I don't want that post to be too long. Then it was time to test fit all the parts, put them together and sand, prime, sand and paint everything.

 

 

 

modeled 3d printed covers for the 200mm fans so they look the same regardless of their orientation

 

 

 

Sounds easy in this short summary but man it took me a long time to create all the necessary parts for my pc (cant see them here) make them all fit and learning how to use a cnc machine in the first place

 

After all of that was done it was finally the day where everything was ready to be assembled. It was also the day I was moving to a new place. So naturally the first thing that had to be running was the pc

 

here you can see what all the cnc milled channels are being used for. Mostly extensions since I wanted the motherboard to be in the middle of the desk.

 

 

 

Already looks way better with the thin wooden sheet on top.

 

 

 

 

Aaaand done
Funny thing is that when I first wanted to turn on my pc I panicked for a moment because it didn't do anything. Turned out that I just forgot to turn on the switch on the power supply 

 

 

 

In the end I just could not resist to turn the 3d blocking of the motherboard into a highly detailed 3d model and render a couple of sequences to also test if the pc is stable throughout multiple days of 100% cpu load when overclocked.

 

After some crashes when rendering for longer than about 20 hours I got it dialed in and my 2700x now runs at 4.2GHz on all cores at 100% load for days (3200MHz ram).
 

[A1200]

Wow! Nice!

[Tech101yt]

That looks dope, but one thing- Is that an acrylic top? if it is, that will literally be a scratch magnet.

[devo93]

thank you  It's glass but you're right, acryl would look horrible within days 

 

maybe it's the edge of the glass that gets lit by the LEDs that makes it look like acryl.

[Tech101yt]

On 1/30/2021 at 12:47 AM, devo93 said:

thank you  It's glass but you're right, acryl would look horrible within days 

 

maybe it's the edge of the glass that gets lit by the LEDs that makes it look like acryl.

Ah, thank goodness! yeah, it was the leds from the side. Outstanding build, looks dope!