Excessive Custom Laptop - It's absurd

[Marie Azalea]

Budget (including currency): 1M IDR (measly 60$)(Is increasing by 100.000IDR per week)

Country: Indonesia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender modelling, Music Production, Video editing, Digital Drawing(Drawing pad already bought for), Complex Animations using Roblox moon animator(No shaders) and web-browing

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, this is a very stupid project in my opinion but I'm still gonna build it bcs I simply want to find joy in building my own laptop and it working.

 

 

Physical Components:

Form Factor: Vertically positioned with no hinges. (A glorified Calculator/Cashier)

Dimensions: 38 cm tall, 27 cm wide, 6 cm thick at the bottom, increasing to 8 cm at the top. (VERY Beefy) 

Material: Primarily ABS plastic, with stainless steel in key areas for heat dissipation.  

Screen: 1080p, 60Hz display taking up 1/3 of the front panel, propped up for better viewing.  

Trackball Mouse: Located beside the screen, featuring two buttons and a scroll wheel. Not propped up so it's at 5

6cm not 8cm

Keyboard: Custom 75% mechanical keyboard (Or tactile at the very least)

Charger: USB-C charging port located at the bottom. (An adapter will be needed)

Extra's:

-Lid: For covering up the laptop since it does not have any hinges. Theres a slot on the side of the laptop that allows you to insert the lid downwards so as to make it like a mouse pad (Refer to the plan I drew)

 

Internal Components 

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B560-I Gaming (Mini-ITX)   

CPU: Intel Core i3-10105F (no overclocking)  

GPU: NVIDIA RTX A2000  

Storage: SSD 

Drives: Internally mounted floppy drive & CD drive (Old tech Hobbist)

Battery: Large enough to sustain 7-10 hours idle

 

Ports & Connectivity  

Right Side: IO ports from the motherboard (USB, HDMI/DP, Ethernet, audio, etc.)  

Left Side: USB-C charging port

Bottom: SD card slot, memory card slot

 

Notes:

1)I am aware this is extremely bizzare and would be way more convenient to just buy a pre-made, but I wanna put my building skills to the test

2)The plan from the picture above has several errors (Such as the mouse overlapping on the screen and it being propped up when it's supposed to stay flat)

3)I haven't put my mind around cooling much since I'm still unsure with cooling systems

4)I have somewhat limited english, please be patient

[Somerandomtechyboi]

19 minutes ago, Marie Azalea said:

I am aware this is extremely bizzare

well its gonna be quite the adventure trying to build the thing

 

idk if the thing would classify as a laptop nor have any practical use so maybe add a hinge to the display? then itd actually have some semblance of practicality

[Syrup8]

31 minutes ago, Marie Azalea said:

Budget (including currency): 1M IDR (measly 60$)(Is increasing by 100.000IDR per week)

Country: Indonesia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender modelling, Music Production, Video editing, Digital Drawing(Drawing pad already bought for), Complex Animations using Roblox moon animator(No shaders) and web-browing

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, this is a very stupid project in my opinion but I'm still gonna build it bcs I simply want to find joy in building my own laptop and it working.

 

 

Physical Components:

Form Factor: Vertically positioned with no hinges. (A glorified Calculator/Cashier)

Dimensions: 38 cm tall, 27 cm wide, 5 cm thick at the bottom, increasing to 7 cm at the top. (VERY Beefy) 

Material: Primarily ABS plastic, with stainless steel in key areas for heat dissipation.  

Screen: 1080p, 60Hz display taking up 1/3 of the front panel, propped up for better viewing.  

Trackball Mouse: Located beside the screen, featuring two buttons and a scroll wheel. Not propped up so it's at 5cm not 7cm

Keyboard: Custom 75% mechanical keyboard (Or tactile at the very least)

Charger: USB-C charging port located at the bottom. (An adapter will be needed)

Extra's:

-Lid: For covering up the laptop since it does not have any hinges. Theres a slot on the side of the laptop that allows you to insert the lid downwards so as to make it like a mouse pad (Refer to the plan I drew)

 

Internal Components 

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B560-I Gaming (Mini-ITX)   

CPU: Intel Core i3-10105F (no overclocking)  

GPU: NVIDIA RTX A2000  

Storage: SSD 

Drives: Internally mounted floppy drive & CD drive (Old tech Hobbist)

Battery: Large enough to sustain 7-10 hours idle

 

Ports & Connectivity  

Right Side: IO ports from the motherboard (USB, HDMI/DP, Ethernet, audio, etc.)  

Left Side: USB-C charging port

Bottom: SD card slot, memory card slot

 

Notes:

1)I am aware this is extremely bizzare and would be way more convenient to just buy a pre-made, but I wanna put my building skills to the test

2)The plan from the picture above has several errors (Such as the mouse overlapping on the screen and it being propped up when it's supposed to stay flat)

3)I haven't put my mind around cooling much since I'm still unsure with cooling systems

4)I have somewhat limited english, please be patient

DANG

[Marie Azalea]

Just now, Somerandomtechyboi said:

well its gonna be quite the adventure trying to build the thing

 

idk if the thing would classify as a laptop nor have any practical use so maybe add a hinge to the display? then itd actually have some semblance of practicality

The hingeless thing is more for aesthetics, cooling space and anti-cracking. I had too much experience of my laptop feet breaking away below the hinges

[Marie Azalea]

1 minute ago, Marie Azalea said:

The hingeless thing is more for aesthetics, cooling space and anti-cracking. I had too much experience of my laptop feet breaking away below the hinges

If anything, it's quite literally a "portable" computer. Not a dumbed down, paper-thin computer

[Jurrunio]

Any plans on the internal layout? I don't see where the I/O area of the motherboard and graphics card would come out.

[Marie Azalea]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Any plans on the internal layout? I don't see where the I/O area of the motherboard and graphics card would come out.

Sadly, no. I haven't designed the internal layout because I only just found the components I want to use.

 

The mobo io would be exposed on the right of the laptop but the gpu will be fully inside the laptop 

[Jurrunio]

4 hours ago, Marie Azalea said:

3)I haven't put my mind around cooling much since I'm still unsure with cooling systems

Basically, let the CPU and GPU fans have room to breath on the front and sides while case fans from a clear "this way in, that side out" pattern. For this reason laptops have their motherboards face down inside the laptop with the backside just underneath the keyboard, you should try do the same. Your graphics card needs the same treatment too, so probably face down next to the motherboard (note PCIe risers are bad for bending sideways, they only bend forwards and backwards). The far back side underneath the display is the perfect space for a 100+Wh battery to go (my laptop with 8750H and 1060 idles for 5 hrs when new with 86Wh battery as an example) because it should be as far from the heat as possible.

[Marie Azalea]

6 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Basically, let the CPU and GPU fans have room to breath on the front and sides while case fans from a clear "this way in, that side out" pattern. For this reason laptops have their motherboards face down inside the laptop with the backside just underneath the keyboard, you should try do the same. Your graphics card needs the same treatment too, so probably face down next to the motherboard (note PCIe risers are bad for bending sideways, they only bend forwards and backwards). The far back side underneath the display is the perfect space for a 100+Wh battery to go (my laptop with 8750H and 1060 idles for 5 hrs when new with 86Wh battery as an example) because it should be as far from the heat as possible.

Would my RTX A2000 gpu fit mabye below 5cm? 

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Marie Azalea said:

Would my RTX A2000 gpu fit mabye below 5cm? 

5cm of what? It's a less than 2 slot card so it is under 5cm thick if this is what you are asking, I think each slot is 20mm thick? 

 

And now that I checked, RTX A2000 is a blower card that sucks are from its fan and blows out from the I/O area. Therefore you would have to either expose the I/O or put a vent with exhaust fans near the I/O if you insist keeping the I/O hidden.

[Marie Azalea]

33 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Therefore you would have to either expose the I/O or put a vent with exhaust fans near the I/O if you insist keeping the I/O hidden.

Then could you just get an hdmi cable to connect to the I/O then reconnect the other side of the cable inside the portable computer

[Marie Azalea]

Fyi I had to bump up the thickness to 6-8 to fit better cooling. It gets thicker

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Marie Azalea said:

Then could you just get an hdmi cable to connect to the I/O then reconnect the other side of the cable inside the portable computer

Of course you can have a display cable that goes back inside to the case.

[Marie Azalea]

I'll also be changing some components because of price