- Joined
- Nov 15, 2010
- Location
- Livingston, Scotland
COMPLETED PROJECT
Okay, well ive been looking at some of the rather nice Bench stations on here, and one in particular caught my eye.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=674665&highlight=benching+station
Now My design is to have the top made from acrylic (in which the motherboard gfx card ect will be mounted on, Then have 5 collums coming down to a wooden base in which the PSU, Hard Drive(s) and Dvd Drive will be mounted on.
For a google Sketchup model (which i officially suck at making) here is my attempt.
I plan to box off the PSU and have the hard drives mounted on the bottom in a removable hard drive cage which has a thumbscrew for easy use.
Now for cabling, im thinking about changing my design so that the middle collum can be opened from the rear and i can push all my cables through that then out the top somehow. Seen as my psu is modular and all i will have running in it will be the 24pin atx + 6+2pin GFX power cable, i dont see this being an issue. For the sata cables i plan to cut a small opening in the acrylic so that they can be twisted from the base.
For now, the actual hardware wont be anything impressive and will be as follows :-
AMD ATHLON 64 X2 3800+ @ 2 ghz
Asus M2N-E Motherboard
2 GB kingston DDR2 800 mhz ram
450Watt Modular PSU
Modded Internal DVD drive
ASUS HD4850 (stock for now but WILL be overclocked)
And A few WD Cadavier Blue Hard drives (150gb,250gb,80gb)
Now, once this is finnished I have two plans for it.
1:- To start benching =]
2:- To use as a HTPC as ive done the design so it will be perfect to have sitting next to my tv + ps3 =]
Okay, well ive been looking at some of the rather nice Bench stations on here, and one in particular caught my eye.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=674665&highlight=benching+station
Now My design is to have the top made from acrylic (in which the motherboard gfx card ect will be mounted on, Then have 5 collums coming down to a wooden base in which the PSU, Hard Drive(s) and Dvd Drive will be mounted on.
For a google Sketchup model (which i officially suck at making) here is my attempt.
I plan to box off the PSU and have the hard drives mounted on the bottom in a removable hard drive cage which has a thumbscrew for easy use.
Now for cabling, im thinking about changing my design so that the middle collum can be opened from the rear and i can push all my cables through that then out the top somehow. Seen as my psu is modular and all i will have running in it will be the 24pin atx + 6+2pin GFX power cable, i dont see this being an issue. For the sata cables i plan to cut a small opening in the acrylic so that they can be twisted from the base.
For now, the actual hardware wont be anything impressive and will be as follows :-
AMD ATHLON 64 X2 3800+ @ 2 ghz
Asus M2N-E Motherboard
2 GB kingston DDR2 800 mhz ram
450Watt Modular PSU
Modded Internal DVD drive
ASUS HD4850 (stock for now but WILL be overclocked)
And A few WD Cadavier Blue Hard drives (150gb,250gb,80gb)
Now, once this is finnished I have two plans for it.
1:- To start benching =]
2:- To use as a HTPC as ive done the design so it will be perfect to have sitting next to my tv + ps3 =]
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