Mounting my Folding rig to the wall

[Xineas]

I recently got two Sapphire HD6970 cards, but they're the blower style cards and they're loud af and they barely fit in my case anyways. I had an ATX motherboard laying around, new in box, because I bought it 3 or so years ago, not realizing my case only fit a micro-ATX. Having recently installed a Linksys WRT56G in the shed to get some internet there, I started planning to move the Folding rig to the shed. There it can be as loud as it has to be without bothering me.

 

Mounting an ATX board to the wall:

 

I used these little hammer-in M3 size nuts to get some mounting points:

 

Mounting the Gigabyte Z77 board on the wall with the i7-3770 and RAM already installed:

 

Using spacers behind the board to get the right distance from the wall, this is the result:

 

Next up is the power supply, it gets a spot right underneath, little protection pads to avoid scratching the cover:

 

Whatever gauge wire I had laying around to strap it in:

 

Screwing some 120mm fans to the wall to get some airflow across the parts:

 

An assortment of SSDs:

 

Hooray, it is alive.

 

Up next is mounting those heavy 6970s

 

Ready for business. Tested and working correctly.  

[Julian5]

15 minutes ago, Xineas said:

I recently got two Sapphire HD6970 cards, but they're the blower style cards and they're loud af and they barely fit in my case anyways. I had an ATX motherboard laying around, new in box, because I bought it 3 or so years ago, not realizing my case only fit a micro-ATX. Having recently installed a Linksys WRT56G in the shed to get some internet there, I started planning to move the Folding rig to the shed. There it can be as loud as it has to be without bothering me.

 

Mounting an ATX board to the wall:

 

I used these little hammer-in M3 size nuts to get some mounting points:

 

Mounting the Gigabyte Z77 board on the wall with the i7-3770 and RAM already installed:

 

Using spacers behind the board to get the right distance from the wall, this is the result:

 

Next up is the power supply, it gets a spot right underneath, little protection pads to avoid scratching the cover:

 

Whatever gauge wire I had laying around to strap it in:

 

Screwing some 120mm fans to the wall to get some airflow across the parts:

 

An assortment of SSDs:

 

Hooray, it is alive.

 

Up next is mounting those heavy 6970s

 

Ready for business. Tested and working correctly.  

nice job dude love it