help a sheetmetal worker come up with a good case!

[Magnus]

ok as it stands my case is a 100$ cdn cheepo
i could make one from scratch but the amount of hours scares me... but if the idea rocks ill take it... i have access to alot of plex glass also... help!!!... i have 4 80mm fans plus swiftech mcx370 hs
my system no matter where i put those fans still runs super hot.. 46-50 idle... yah i know asus probe blows chunks but its all i got .. anyone have some good ideas or any links it would be greatly appreciated!

by the way check out this case mod... prob the most inventive ever! http://bit-tech.net/article/63/

 

[Magnus]

by the way im a sheetmetal worker... get inventive i can make almost anything... except a round sphere! :]

 

[adamtekh]

so u like that a7a266?

 

[Iron Hawk]

Alright, some of you may find this idea weird, others may not:

Have you ever seen a building that is being built and it only has the steel beams and stuff up? How about making a model of a un-finished building (sheetmetal frame, plexi sides, etc.) and putting your computer in that.

How about a cube case, you could paint it like a rubics cube?!?

 

[adamtekh]

a "ASUS CUBE" eh?

 

[RoadWarrior]

Make a borg cube

Seriously I think that would be really cool. I have these 3 desktop cases that sit together in a cube shape I was going to mod those for a 3 Machine beowulf or distributed computing array, and paint it up like a borg cube.

Road Warrior

 

[Lt. Max]

hey road warrior , thats only possible on a linux system right?

 

[RoadWarrior]

Probably...... anything unixish might work, BSD etc.

You might get it done with thousands worth of MS software, but then you'd a)probably only get performance equal to a single machine in the array for 3 machines b)probably only have something like a load balancing setup, not a true distributed processing system.

Road Warrior

 

[Christensen]

building a case?

If you do build a case, definitely don't skimp on space. Quite by accident I found out that small cases have an inherent heat problem. I put my new xp1600 with volcano 7/ ecs k7ama into a micro-atx case(it fit in without any modifications--believe it or not) and found alot higher temps than you have! The airflow was really bad. With just a few mods I dropped my temps from about 132 F down to 102 F -idle. Anyway, back to the case design. I would definitely add a blowhole above the heatsink and make sure that intake air is about the same as exhaust. I would also place your harddrive(s) at the top of the case so that the heat from it doesn't have to run across the whole motherboard. Any fan should be mounted over a large hole rather than a bunch of little ones--take the fan's grill off and use an exterior one. You might have already known all this, but I had to make sure!

 

[adamtekh]

positive case presure