Krell preamp chassis repurposed

[Dev.]

So I've been running Krell equipment for years now and I figured that it'd be an awesome project to find a broken, matching preamp chassis for cheap to repurpose into a computer. I've always waited a high powered living room PC to use as my main rig. I could've easily gotten any off the shelf HTPC case but this option matches perfectly with the power amps I have. Well I finally found one for a good price and it came in today.

 

Mocking stuff up with an mitx board - probably gonna be putting an matx board in here. Don't think I'm gonna be cutting holes for fans anytime soon but there's plenty of ventilation throughout the chassis.

Dimensions L x W x H: 381 mm x 483 mm x 15.3 mm

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I then started to build the backplate in Inventor after quite a bit of measuring and head scratching. Since the GPU in its standard orientation is too tall for the case, I decided to have the GPUs mounted horizontally, one above each other. With this design, I can stuff in an matx board and honestly I don't need much more than that. There's not much clearance between the pcie slots and the bottom of the lower card but I still have some room to adjust spacing. I'll have to get my hands on a flexible pcie riser to see what's up. I could flip the graphics cards around and make it a bit easier to route the pcie risers but I think it looks a lot cooler to have them facing up. I probably won't be doing SLI for now but to have the option available would be nice. Plus, this case is too big to only have room for just one graphics card!

 

Does anyone have any advice as to how I can improve my design? I'm gonna be transferring my main rig into this thing so I'd like it to be as well thought out as possible before I get to actual fabrication. Thanks.