Foam Board Case

SirTankBall · January 14, 2017

Please Me If Need Be.

so see all these guys with $100+ pc cases all the time, so there cool and all but its just stupid to spend $100+ on a stupid PC case when u can make or own! heck if u know what your doing u can make a small PC case for as little as $5.

so heres one of my PCs i have with a homemade PC case out of WalWorld (WalMart) foam board. i've be doing these cases for years now. never once had a over heart or any thing like that. i would like to try out a water cooled PC but im not going to put $60+ on a stupid water cooling system for my PC that does just fine being air cooled.

now i dont have a build video of the PC i just showed but i do have a build video for say for a potato AMD i have.

the AMD potato im using on my TV for mostly uploading videos to my 2nd youtube channel. it can game but not that well since it only has 2GB of ram, i do want to put 4GB in it but idk when i will

ShepBook · January 14, 2017

Whatever floats your boat! I fashioned air channels for my bitcoin mining video cards back in the day, using foam core board too.

For a full build, I just picked up a Fractal Design Define S for about $60, so I'm going to just use that.

Again, whatever floats your boat! I'm glad you like it.

January 14, 2017

It's on foam

Can it float?

SirTankBall · February 6, 2017

so i havnt done a update cuz i have made a new case. but now i made a new one.

so this is the smallest case i made (for a desktop) i was going to using it as a ps1, ps2, and psp emu. but sadly it cant run the ps2 emu well so i had to get other desktop i had and make it a new case. but there here is why i like making my own cases, this PC is SO small i can store in here.

now heres the new PC i'm useing, the specs are.

Intel Core2 Quad @ 2.5GHz

6GB of ram.

320HHD

750ti (2GB)

its also runing windows 10 64bit. im going to be upgrading to windows 7 64bit very soon. 10 sucks!

its a little biger then i would like but it does the job. its still smaller them in i bought a real case for it.

leaderroy · March 16, 2017

I've actually been thinking of prototyping a case out of this kind of foam boards.
Before perhaps having someone like Protocase have a go at a metal version.
I only deal with mITX and SFX PSUs ur pico PSUs however, so expect something really tiny (probably with custom water cooling).

I was wondering how it compares to a steel or aluminium (or aluminum for those Americans out there) case in terms of noise

Protocase · March 20, 2017

Very cool! As @ShepBook said, if it works for you - then great!

@leaderroy, that's an awesome idea. Many a prototype has been started with some kind of a foam/wood/cardboard material. In fact, that's how the early 45 Drives' Backblaze pods were designed before we started manufacturing them.

ianken51 · June 13, 2021

Well done sir. I'm looking at doing the same thing, on a smaller scale. Back in 2017 I built a Foam Board Macintosh case for my Raspberry Pi 3B SBC with a 7" LCD screen and portable battery pack for power.

Initially It was in black Foam Board (my Black Maque), but I wasn't too happy with the rough edges, so I coated it with marble print vinyl wrap. It lasted several months and then was crushed as I was moving stuff around.

Here are a few pics..