Quick and Easy Desk Computer (Tutorial)

[RainColt]

And now we bolt down the acrylic, nothing too special here just put the thing in the thing spin it. Heres a picture of what it might look like when your done that spinny part, it's kinda blurry but I think it gets across the point of what it is supposed to be?

[RainColt]

Now, this is my only day off this month so I'm not going to fully commit myself to this little game and I've got to make a trip to town so be back in 5 hours...or 2 months you never know really.

Edit: I started this back up a little bit spiteful but in all honesty, I'm kinda enjoying this.

[HellaflushMcSwaggins]

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[RainColt]

Alright just fit the parts and screwed holes for motherboard mounting.

For motherboard standoffs I use beveled washers simply because I cant really find a better way to do it they are made of rubber which means they are non conductive and while not necessary for this build because the surface the motherboard is on is also non conductive, some people feel more at ease when the hot parts of the mother board arnt directly touching things that might be able to catch fire, I'm not one of those people, I used them because I lost the mounting screws for my heatsink and substituted some 1 inch screws that I picked up at the hardware store but one inch was too long and 3/4 inch was too short so I had quite abit of extra sticking out the back, when I bolted the motherboard down I was going to have to deal with either flex or shifting so I put some washers in to make up for the extra from the CPU.

[RainColt]

And there is your end result

 

It's alright and my favorite part about it is easy access, just slide the drawer out and you can tinker with it and add hardware, hell I even have space for a harddrive.

[RainColt]

Done in 3 hours of work and 8 hours of christmas shopping.

[Guest]

Finally. Personally I would have preferred if the acrylic was flush with the top of the desk and not recessed like that.