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I built my own wooden PC case!

fuuya
By fuuya
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I made my own PC Case, built out of wood. It took me about a week, please leave a comment about how I can improve it :)

I'm not sure what to do with the sides, I originally wanted to paint them in light gray, but I'm not too sure about that anymore. I'll treat the inside like the front soon (just add some special oil, don't know the specific words in english but it's for wooden stairs and floor). Maybe I'll do that to the outside too instead of painting it gray. As I said, I'm not too sure about it anymore.

And I'll definitly add speaker spikes (when they arrive, fk u DPD >:()

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That is really cool nice job!

 

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I noticed this might be the wrong category to post this in. I'm sorry about that, I'm new to this forum. If it's in the wrong category, can I or one of the mods move it to the correct one?

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Looks great! You did an excellent job :D

 

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@wkdpaul or @W-L can help you out :)

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looks REALLY out of place on that desk... maybe finish it with a dark stain...?

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4 minutes ago, fuuya said:

I noticed this might be the wrong category to post this in. I'm sorry about that, I'm new to this forum. If it's in the wrong category, can I or one of the mods move it to the correct one?

Moved to the Case mod section, nice work BTW ;)

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1 minute ago, Beowulff83 said:

Don't overclock, you might start a Bonfire!

that's what I got good fans for xD my temps are at 40 CPU and 50 GPU idle and under load they go up to 65 CPU and 75 GPU , but I've never had throttel or higher temps

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Damn I'll pay you 170$ to build me one holy smokes that's cool cable management could use some work tho

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looks cool. i like the magnet holding for the front panel. i would just give it a sand and use a wood finish to keep the grain apparent.

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3 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

looks REALLY out of place on that desk... maybe finish it with a dark stain...?

I'll get a second desk soon, it will be standing on top of that. The second desk is white. A dark stain usually is a vague colour in this colour palette. Blue, white and light gray as well as a dark brown fits more. But I don't think I'll stain the wood dark.

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How did you make the holes for the fans? They don't quite look entirely round.

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1 minute ago, Majestic said:

How did you make the holes for the fans? They don't quite look entirely round.

I used a scroll saw and tried to make them round. We didn't have special drilling heads this big.

EDIT: If I had trained more, I probably could have made it look better, but I didn't

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5 minutes ago, Gamerguy207 said:

Damn I'll pay you 170$ to build me one holy smokes that's cool cable management could use some work tho

You'll have to get it in Germany :P and yeah, cable management is the last thing I thought about.

The case isn't perfect tho, and the many hours I invested are probably worth more than 170$ ;) Although the wood itself only costs about 20-30€ - the expensive parts were the fans. I got the blue lights for 20 bucks

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Just now, fuuya said:

You'll have to get it in Germany :P and yeah, cable management is the last thing I thought about.

The case isn't perfect tho, and the many hours I invested are probably worth more than 170$ ;) Although the wood itself only costs about 20-30€ - the expensive parts were the fans. I got the blue lights for 20 bucks

$400?    Jk looks great were did you get the wood?

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Just now, Gamerguy207 said:

$400?    Jk looks great were did you get the wood?

A conventional building supplies here. They all have plywood here. For the back and the bottom I used 600x400 hardwood

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6 minutes ago, fuuya said:

I used a scroll saw and tried to make them round. We didn't have special drilling heads this big.

Surely with a bit more time you can round out those holes better with a file? Yeah you'd need some CNC machine to make them perfect.

DPD is the worst btw, I agree ;)

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Just now, fuuya said:

A conventional building supplies here. They all have plywood here. For the back and the bottom I used 600x400 hardwood

Kool thanks :)

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2 minutes ago, Majestic said:

Surely with a bit more time you can round out those holes better with a file? Yeah you'd need some CNC machine to make them perfect.

DPD is the worst btw, I agree ;)

I could do that, but it wood (ha, see what I did there lol) take me a lot of work and probably I'll mess it up. I already tried it and it was very frustrating, especially because the plywood started splintering and that didn't look well

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this gives me an idea for a burlwood project...

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Just now, knightslugger said:

this gives me an idea for a burlwood project...

make sure to keep me updated!

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1 minute ago, fuuya said:

make sure to keep me updated!

i'll be honest, i probably wont. lulz

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Outside looks good.

Internals made me sad.

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Holy crap that looks sweet. :DIm planning out a wooden case build myself, so this has given me some cool ideas. 

And if you don't mind me asking, what did you use for the see through side panel?

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