LS3 - The 6.2L Mini ITX Gaming Machine

[byalexandr]

33 minutes ago, A Guy Eating Cereal said:

But Nice Case design! Looks really good  How are you going to cut the aluminium (Pronounced the British way  )

Hand tools like a jig saw, Dremel, etc.

[afyeung]

Awesome build my friend. If it goes well you should consider selling the design to a company. I would definitely buy something like this for a HTPC.

[thekeemo]

Please tag in updates don't feel like being spammed if I follow

[byalexandr]

12 minutes ago, thekeemo said:

Please tag in updates don't feel like being spammed if I follow

I will post status updates

 

31 minutes ago, afyeung said:

Awesome build my friend. If it goes well you should consider selling the design to a company. I would definitely buy something like this for a HTPC.

Huh, maybe.

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

12 hours ago, byalexandr said:

Hand tools like a jig saw, Dremel, etc.

Good  A friend of mine modded his case (put a window in it) With just a hacksaw...... It looked like utter crap! 

[byalexandr]

1 hour ago, A Guy Eating Cereal said:

Good  A friend of mine modded his case (put a window in it) With just a hacksaw...... It looked like utter crap! 

I'm pretty handy:

 

 

Haha, man that was a long time ago. That rig had an Athlon...

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

30 minutes ago, byalexandr said:

I'm pretty handy:

Haha, man that was a long time ago. That rig had an Athlon...

Nice! Looks a lot like the inwin D frame  

[byalexandr]

3 hours ago, A Guy Eating Cereal said:

Nice! Looks a lot like the inwin D frame  

That was the idea haha

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

3 hours ago, byalexandr said:

That was the idea haha

Forgot to say the welds look pretty neat! I can't weld for s**t......  

[hearthofsin]

followed!
can you explain what you are using your computer for? because the xeon upgrade is odd to me not saying it is a bad choice they are actually often cheaper than the i5's and i7's for not that much lower speeds and same cores and threads. (lga 1150 obviously.. not 2011) 

[byalexandr]

8 minutes ago, hearthofsin said:

followed!
can you explain what you are using your computer for? because the xeon upgrade is odd to me not saying it is a bad choice they are actually often cheaper than the i5's and i7's for not that much lower speeds and same cores and threads. (lga 1150 obviously.. not 2011) 

Because it's basically an i7 for the price of an i5! I do a lot of CAD work and photo and video work as well, and Xeons are generally regarded by non-techie people as 'high end' since it's professional/server stuff. That and it's not a very hot chip, which is pretty necessary for this chassis.

[Bananasplit_00]

20 hours ago, byalexandr said:

I'm pretty handy:

 

 

 

Haha, man that was a long time ago. That rig had an Athlon...

wow. man thats so awesome. i really want one of those

[byalexandr]

3 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

wow. man thats so awesome. i really want one of those

Haha, that was probably one of my first ever PC chassis I've done. It was actually mostly hardware from an HP Slimline.

 

3 hours ago, DEcobra11 said:

Finally a case that isn't as long as a fucking train =D

I'll be able to fit this and my peripherals in a backpack

[Guest]

2 hours ago, byalexandr said:

I'll be able to fit this and my peripherals in a backpack

Maybe that should be the inspiration for my next cardboard case, in it's current testbench form it is a little large to take around easily.

[byalexandr]

 

Bit of an update, not a big one but it does provide some more clarity on the design as I feel I haven't provided enough. I got a copy of the template printed (on a single size D sheet, so the scale came out wrong) and I folded it up and added some cross braces like I mentioned, just to give you guys a better idea of the chassis.

 

Now, I should definitely mention, this paper model is a LOT BIGGER than the actual chassis. In fact, it's scaled up about 1.3x, so it's around 30% larger than the actual case. But again, this is just to provide more clarity on the design and structure.

 

Just picture this, except made of steel and a lot less wavy (since this is pretty thin paper), as well as a lot smaller:

 

Anyway, small update like I mentioned before. As I get another template printed tomorrow (this time printed at the right size) I will begin construction of the chassis. This was a misprint but I took the opportunity to show the design a bit more.

 

That's all for now, expect a pretty big update in the coming day or two.

 

Thanks, @byalexandr

[Aereldor]

On 2/19/2016 at 4:58 AM, byalexandr said:

Also, feel free to come up with a name for this cool little build, all my creativity went into creating the chassis so I'm out of ideas

'Tyrion Lannister'. 

'Zoltan' (Witcher reference).

'Aramis' (If I'm not wrong, he was the shortest of the three musketeers, but also the cleverest and nimblest).

'Edward' (This could be interpreted either as a Cowboy Bebop or a Fullmetal Alchemist reference, depending on which you like more).

[Thirall]

On 19 February 2016 at 0:49 AM, mikat said:

a trumpun?

*badum tss*

[tcolecruz]

On 2/19/2016 at 3:37 PM, Aytex said:

Name it potato

how did you make that beauty of a profile gif

 

[MagnusGrønstad]

If this was a real product I would've purchased this.
It looks really nice.

[Mortis Angelus]

Suggestion for a name: Tiny Tina

Why? 1) Awesome Borderlands reference is awesome 2) If you manage to build this, and thus setting a new standard for SFF, it will be tiny, but brutal - just like TIny Tina

 

BTW: It's Aluminium. Period. I mean, what's the logic, Americans? You say Titanium, not "Titanum". It's the same thing; derived from the same family of words. Peace!

[Mortis Angelus]

On 22.2.2016 at 3:06 AM, byalexandr said:

 

Bit of an update, not a big one but it does provide some more clarity on the design as I feel I haven't provided enough. I got a copy of the template printed (on a single size D sheet, so the scale came out wrong) and I folded it up and added some cross braces like I mentioned, just to give you guys a better idea of the chassis.

 

Now, I should definitely mention, this paper model is a LOT BIGGER than the actual chassis. In fact, it's scaled up about 1.3x, so it's around 30% larger than the actual case. But again, this is just to provide more clarity on the design and structure.

 

Just picture this, except made of steel and a lot less wavy (since this is pretty thin paper), as well as a lot smaller:

 

Anyway, small update like I mentioned before. As I get another template printed tomorrow (this time printed at the right size) I will begin construction of the chassis. This was a misprint but I took the opportunity to show the design a bit more.

 

That's all for now, expect a pretty big update in the coming day or two.

 

Thanks, @byalexandr

Looking at your sketches/drawings for the case and this mock-up paper-model you've made I am struck with one issue: Where are your exhaust-vents? I guess you'll have a front mounted 140 mm intake fan (by the looks of it). But where are you going to push that air? Or in the case that you are letting the fan blow the air out of the case, where are your intakes?

 

Or have I understood your case wrong; is the PSU placed up in the back, or down in the front?

[byalexandr]

12 minutes ago, Mortis Angelus said:

2 minutes ago, Mortis Angelus said:

Looking at your sketches/drawings for the case and this mock-up paper-model you've made I am struck with one issue: Where are your exhaust-vents? I guess you'll have a front mounted 140 mm intake fan (by the looks of it). But where are you going to push that air? Or in the case that you are letting the fan blow the air out of the case, where are your intakes?

 

Or have I understood your case wrong; is the PSU placed up in the back, or down in the front?

Ugh, it's quoting all weird but to answer your question:

 

The front intake is actually a 120mm fan, the chassis is 130mm wide. With my new exterior design, which I haven't unveiled yet (except in my status update), the front 120mm takes in air from side vents similar to a Define R5, and the exhaust is taken care of by the PSU and some passive exhaust above the motherboard I/O. The GPU is basically isolated from the rest of the system and has it's own passive intake and exhausts. The PSU is mounted directly above the mobo, pretty much where you'd put a taller CPU cooler. The photo that you quoted me with is just the frame, so the side panels and the rest of the exterior are not shown.

[Alpha11]

On 2/22/2016 at 0:52 PM, Aereldor said:

'Tyrion Lannister'. 

 

yes....just....yes

[1shanghai]

On 2/19/2016 at 11:48 PM, A Guy Eating Cereal said:

sorrry i couldn't resist getting in a Trump pun

You could also say that this case will soon be 'trumpun' any other case

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

43 minutes ago, 1shanghai said:

You could also say that this case will soon be 'trumpun' any other case

Aha yep  I currently have the Drumps chrome add-on (changes all instances of the word trump to Drumpf) so it took me a min to get the joke....