Homicidal BoB
07-01-07, 03:07 PM
I first want to say this project was very much inspired by navig and his many lubic builds. After seeing what he had done with his builds, I got inspired to take a crack at building a case myself. This thing is a long way from being finished but I wanted to get some feedback on what I've done so far. I will say this thing is looking to be quite large, mostly due to my not wanting to deal with cramped cases anymore. These pictures really don't do this thing much justice in showing how big it really is. Also ignore the timestamps on these pictures, I was too lazy to update the time on the camera. These pictures were just taken today.
http://www.realmofchaos.org/Case/front.jpg
This is a picture of the front of my frame, as you can see there is room for 8 5 1/4 drives, in that center channel there I plan to put my floppy drive, and my switch panel at the top. This should leave me enough room to be able to use thumb screws on the 5 1/4 drives and make this front section tooless. I also plan to put my motherboard up top with 3 120mm fans blowing across and 3 120mm fans exhausting the hot air. That large bottom area, above the casters is for a future water cooling setup. This leaves plenty of space for a large rad/pump/reservoir.
http://www.realmofchaos.org/Case/left.jpg
This is a side view showing how much space this setup leaves me, I plan to pickup a couple of these http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=37&products_id=4401&zenid=883e511efebbccbc4ff5c2234dfdf67d
to put behind the 5 1/4 drives to go along with the tooless theme of this case.
http://www.realmofchaos.org/Case/rear.jpg
Here in the rear, I plan to install my power supply on its side into that center channel, in which I also plan to route most of the cables. To each side of the center channel will be a 120mm fan pulling air over the hard drives.
That pretty much sums up what I've been able to do in the past 2 weeks of working with my lubic kits. I'm still somewhat undecided on what material I should make the mobo tray and the rest of the trays for the case. I also haven't decided on what I want to skin the case with, but most likely I'll go with a acrylic skin with some cold cathodes lighting the interior. :D
http://www.realmofchaos.org/Case/front.jpg
This is a picture of the front of my frame, as you can see there is room for 8 5 1/4 drives, in that center channel there I plan to put my floppy drive, and my switch panel at the top. This should leave me enough room to be able to use thumb screws on the 5 1/4 drives and make this front section tooless. I also plan to put my motherboard up top with 3 120mm fans blowing across and 3 120mm fans exhausting the hot air. That large bottom area, above the casters is for a future water cooling setup. This leaves plenty of space for a large rad/pump/reservoir.
http://www.realmofchaos.org/Case/left.jpg
This is a side view showing how much space this setup leaves me, I plan to pickup a couple of these http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=37&products_id=4401&zenid=883e511efebbccbc4ff5c2234dfdf67d
to put behind the 5 1/4 drives to go along with the tooless theme of this case.
http://www.realmofchaos.org/Case/rear.jpg
Here in the rear, I plan to install my power supply on its side into that center channel, in which I also plan to route most of the cables. To each side of the center channel will be a 120mm fan pulling air over the hard drives.
That pretty much sums up what I've been able to do in the past 2 weeks of working with my lubic kits. I'm still somewhat undecided on what material I should make the mobo tray and the rest of the trays for the case. I also haven't decided on what I want to skin the case with, but most likely I'll go with a acrylic skin with some cold cathodes lighting the interior. :D