Case ventilation/ideas.

[Guest]

Hey folks.

I'm planning on making a wood case, and want it to be as compact and simple as possible (but still ATX).

 

This is what I've come up with. The front and sides would have nothing on them, whilst the back would hold the usual IO. The bottom would have 2 holes with dust filters, for the PSU and a 140mm fan. I'd have another exhaust fan at the top. Still not sure on what graphics card to get, so this is just a visualization though the CPU cooler would be the same on. 
Would the 2 fans be sufficient to cool the system? Also, where would you guys mount another HDD? Any other thoughts/opinions are welcome!
(And pardon if I've posted this in the wrong place, was at a conflict of where it would best fit). 

EDIT: I'm dumb. The 2 fans I put are 140mm. 

[themctipers]

instead of taking it from bottom, take it from the side

add a extra hdd/ssd mount.

get 360mm clearance for GPU because who knows if your next gpu is going to be a long thing that won't fit in your case...

 

[Shimejii]

PLEASE put some mesh or airflow for the front of your case. Its honestly an awful idea to not include front ventilation. It seriously hurts performance and noise when you have so much less airlfow.

[Moress]

You would be best served by adding at least a slot on the front left/right sides like they have and the Carbide 400c. It allows you to get air for 3 or so front mounted fans and the front would still be solid wood

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

PLEASE put some mesh or airflow for the front of your case. Its honestly an awful idea to not include front ventilation. It seriously hurts performance and noise when you have so much less airlfow.

I'll think about it since I want to keep it looking clean. Maybe I could go with some speaker like mesh or something. 

7 minutes ago, themctipers said:

instead of taking it from bottom, take it from the side

add a extra hdd/ssd mount.

get 360mm clearance for GPU because who knows if your next gpu is going to be a long thing that won't fit in your case...

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If I moved the fan, then adding another mount would be possible. Adding 50mm wouldn't be hard, so I'll probs do that. 

4 minutes ago, Moress said:

You would be best served by adding at least a slot on the front left/right sides like they have and the Carbide 400c. It allows you to get air for 3 or so front mounted fans and the front would still be solid wood

That would require a lot more work, tho thx. 

[emosun]

the case looks like its an inch or two too wide just to accommodate the rear fan sitting above the I/O. make the rear fan smaller so you can skinny the case up.

also , your wood case is still going to be bigger than some really cheap premade case options. , look at all the dead space in front of the motherboard

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, emosun said:

the case looks like its an inch or two too wide just to accommodate the rear fan sitting above the I/O. make the rear fan smaller so you can skinny the case up.

also , your wood case is still going to be bigger than some really cheap premade case options. , look at all the dead space in front of the motherboard

Just edited the post. The fans are 140mm. I could reduce it to 120mm and skinny the case up a bit. 

I'm not aiming for smallest ever, just something that's 'relatively' small. The dead space could be removed but then it would limit my GPU choices. 

[emosun]

1 minute ago, ImadKnight said:

Just edited the post. The fans are 140mm. I could reduce it to 120mm and skinny the case up a bit. 

I'm not aiming for smallest ever, just something that's 'relatively' small. The dead space could be removed but then it would limit my GPU choices. 

What you're ending up with still is the same size as many prebuilt cases , even cheap ones.

as a woodworker I know that whatever you attempt to build most likely isn't going to exceed the quality and durability of  a normal computer case and in the end really will look quite bad especially if it's just a plain wood box. there's also the time old problem of building electronics into wood boxes in that wood absorbs heat and doesn't dissipate it at all. so not only will it not look too good but it also won't function very well either. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

What you're ending up with still is the same size as many prebuilt cases , even cheap ones.

as a woodworker I know that whatever you attempt to build most likely isn't going to exceed the quality and durability of  a normal computer case and in the end really will look quite bad especially if it's just a plain wood box. there's also the time old problem of building electronics into wood boxes in that wood absorbs heat and doesn't dissipate it at all. so not only will it not look too good but it also won't function very well either. 

I definitely know I could get a nice case and be done with it. But that's not the point. I'm doing this for a school project, and have it planned out pretty well, so I think the end result should look okay.

The wood soaking up heat shouldn't really be any worse than sound insulation.