Triple System Chassis Project. Thoughts?

[Johnmakuta]

I'm working on a project where I put three separate systems in one case. It's kind of like Linus's 2 gamers 1 CPU but for people who don't have the money for $1,000 10 core CPU's when you can buy 2 5820Ks for $600. Currently, I have decided to make it a triple system build as one will run Windows, one will dual boot Linux/Windows, and the last will be a Hackintosh. A dual system is easy enough when it comes to fitting the motherboards in but now that this is a triple system I cam trying to think of creative ways of doing this. All the motherboards are ATX (one is E-ATX) so something like the HAF stacker is out of the question. Will be Watercooling so that will help when it comes to fitting everything and I was planning on doing an upward airflow system with the radiators at the top so anything that needs air for cooling will get it. I have thought about having the Hackintosh simply run integrated graphics but I'd like it to be able to do some heavy video editing so that is out of the question. I have three PSU I had been planning to use but I'm not sure how to fit them in the rig. As for the graphics cards I was planning to use PCIE extensions and lining them up at the top under the radiators with their water blocks. But the motherboards is where I'm really running into difficulties. In a dual system I would just have one regular and the other inverted but with three it becomes a challenge. I was planning on mounting them horizontally with the IO pointed toward the front and side of the case with a small door I could mount magnetically housing the IO. 

 

Do you have any ideas for arranging the PSU's, mobo's, or anything else that would help? 

[shadowbyte]

how about one mobo on the case floor and two on the mobo tray?

two PSU's behind the mobo tray and one on the floor

[Droidbot]

holy lord, 3 PCs? in ONE CASE? 

 

I'm sorry, but you're probably best buying a damn server rack, putting the PCs in 2-4U server cases then sliding them in. 

[Johnmakuta]

5 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

how about one mobo on the case floor and two on the mobo tray?

two PSU's behind the mobo tray and one on the floor

I had thought about that but how would airflow get to the motherboard on the floor? I was planning to have air flowing in from the floor.

[21rkosta]

@Johnmakuta FYI a lot of graphics cards are very hard to use in a hackintosh, and id recommend putting all the psus on the bottum in a row, then 1 mini itx in regular mobo tray but keep it as far away from the graphics card I/O holes , one mini itx  parallel from the other one (use a motherboard tray and mount it), and one mounted below the one on the non motherboard tray sides,  you can use extensions to connect all the motherboard ports to the outside, like luke did in his fallout build, use 2.5inch hdds or ssds and mount them all behind the motherboard tray, put all the GPUs where they regularly go in a typical build and use pci-e extensions

[Johnmakuta]

2 minutes ago, 21rkosta said:

@Johnmakuta FYI a lot of graphics cards are very hard to use in a hackintosh, and id recommend putting all the psus on the bottum in a row, then 1 mini itx in regular mobo tray but keep it as far away from the graphics card I/O holes , one mini itx  parallel from the other one (use a motherboard tray and mount it), and one mounted below the one on the non motherboard tray sides,  you can use extensions to connect all the motherboard ports to the outside, like luke did in his fallout build, use 2.5inch hdds or ssds and mount them all behind the motherboard tray, put all the GPUs where they regularly go in a typical build and use pci-e extensions

As I mentioned before, I only have ATX boards. Thanks for the tip on the Hackintosh.

[21rkosta]

Oh sorry i didnt notice the atx thing, and btw if you want to either buy a preflashed mac card or have your card mac flashed you should go to http://www.macvidcards.com/

[abnormality16]

On 6/7/2016 at 1:37 AM, Johnmakuta said:

I'm working on a project where I put three separate systems in one case. It's kind of like Linus's 2 gamers 1 CPU but for people who don't have the money for $1,000 10 core CPU's when you can buy 2 5820Ks for $600. Currently, I have decided to make it a triple system build as one will run Windows, one will dual boot Linux/Windows, and the last will be a Hackintosh. A dual system is easy enough when it comes to fitting the motherboards in but now that this is a triple system I cam trying to think of creative ways of doing this. All the motherboards are ATX (one is E-ATX) so something like the HAF stacker is out of the question. Will be Watercooling so that will help when it comes to fitting everything and I was planning on doing an upward airflow system with the radiators at the top so anything that needs air for cooling will get it. I have thought about having the Hackintosh simply run integrated graphics but I'd like it to be able to do some heavy video editing so that is out of the question. I have three PSU I had been planning to use but I'm not sure how to fit them in the rig. As for the graphics cards I was planning to use PCIE extensions and lining them up at the top under the radiators with their water blocks. But the motherboards is where I'm really running into difficulties. In a dual system I would just have one regular and the other inverted but with three it becomes a challenge. I was planning on mounting them horizontally with the IO pointed toward the front and side of the case with a small door I could mount magnetically housing the IO. 

 

Do you have any ideas for arranging the PSU's, mobo's, or anything else that would help? 

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Something like this I know im late but if anyone else is doing this