Custom case

[Winn]

Budget (including currency): £200

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: High-end editing and rendering

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

So I plan on building a sleeper PC into a Blanket Box, and the exact one is Argos Home Noah Wooden Blanket Box on the Argos website in the UK. I'm curious if anyone had done this before and had any tips to do this. I am going to attach a ATX acrylic test bench and the fans are gonna be similar to Linus's with his media cabinet. I have a lot of experience in carpentry and so does my dad so thats no issue. I was inspired by Linus's NCIX sort of sleeper PC and thought i'd have a crack at it. Comment if you've got any further questions and thank you

[jaslion]

I mean basically mount the pc to a piece of wood insert it vertically somewhere in the chest and well 2 x200mm in the bottom blowing in and done.

 

Vertically so you have bottom to top airflow. Or opposite can too if you put the fans in exhaust but thats where thoae big fans are a bit worse at.

 

Since there is a slit already might not even need to add extra exhaust. Worst case enlarge it a bit.

 

Id advise against acrylic as it warps over time and when its in a rapid heating and cooling enviroment like a pc its gonna do that pretty quickly

 

For me its the regular put pc in cabinet without case workflow Ive done a couple times :p.

 

I do always have the chassis fans be on a temp sensor board on their own as ive had some issues with 10 sleep updating and certain cabinets became reap hotboxes because for some reason those boards only turned on the cpu fan headers

[SimplyGone]

When i was building this little iTX case out of an old chopping board

 

I used these little thingies

 

Motherboard mountings screw straight in to them. so skip the acrylic sheet and just mount straight to the wood  

[brob]

I'd mount the motherboard horizontally directly onto the case bottom using the threaded inserts suggested by @SimplyChunk using the longest standoffs I could find. If the case bottom is not sturdy use a 1/2 - 3/4 inch plywood plate.

 

The PSU can also mount on the box bottom, drawing air from underneath and exhausting out the back.