Its been awhile since I have been here. I forgot I was part of this forum. Yeah that sucks.
I got to thinking about this next build a long time ago. I have an old state of Illinois metal desk with the fake wood top on it. 5 drawers. I came up with a thought of putting my computer in the desk. I recently had a Dell blow up on me so it has been used as a template. My thought has been all along to use the top left drawer for the case. So with various tools of destruction I began.
I started by taking the Dell apart. This was a 5100 series. I pulled the board, power supply, HD cage and the dvd drive. I sat all of them inside the drawer. I cut the back of the drawer for the power supply to fit and have ventilation. Mother board went in next behind it. Now the Dell board is 10 3/4 X 10 3/4. I have 12 1/8 width, so I can use a full ATX board. Next I put the HD cage in. I am going to use 2 drives in there. 750 GB for the OS and a 1.5 TB for extra storage. I cut out the front of the drawer for the optical drive fit in there. I am going to use a Pioneer Blu Ray burner for this.
Far as cooling goes I want it to be cool as possible. So down both side of the desk, I am using 6 120 MM fans. These are going to be mounted in between the desk case and the drawer. This taking time to do this. All the drilling and cutting as tedious. I plan on running a 160 MM fan on the back of the desk.
Now as far as what I have planned to put in there for a system is AMD. Starting out with the mother board:
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0
CPU
AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8150FRGUBOX
Video Card
XFX Double D FX-785A-CDFC Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support
Power Supply
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSC00-80GAD3-US 1200W ATX 12V v2.3 / EPS 12V v2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC
Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion (70SB135400000) 5.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Express x1 Interface Sound Card with Sound Blaster I/O
Memory I havent really decided on. I know I will be going to the max at 32 GB.
I still have alot of work to do. As soon as the new camera comes in I will get pics. The old cam after 5 years puked. Not sure what happened. Put in the desk and 6 months later tried to turn it on and nothing. Not even with new batteries.
I got to thinking about this next build a long time ago. I have an old state of Illinois metal desk with the fake wood top on it. 5 drawers. I came up with a thought of putting my computer in the desk. I recently had a Dell blow up on me so it has been used as a template. My thought has been all along to use the top left drawer for the case. So with various tools of destruction I began.
I started by taking the Dell apart. This was a 5100 series. I pulled the board, power supply, HD cage and the dvd drive. I sat all of them inside the drawer. I cut the back of the drawer for the power supply to fit and have ventilation. Mother board went in next behind it. Now the Dell board is 10 3/4 X 10 3/4. I have 12 1/8 width, so I can use a full ATX board. Next I put the HD cage in. I am going to use 2 drives in there. 750 GB for the OS and a 1.5 TB for extra storage. I cut out the front of the drawer for the optical drive fit in there. I am going to use a Pioneer Blu Ray burner for this.
Far as cooling goes I want it to be cool as possible. So down both side of the desk, I am using 6 120 MM fans. These are going to be mounted in between the desk case and the drawer. This taking time to do this. All the drilling and cutting as tedious. I plan on running a 160 MM fan on the back of the desk.
Now as far as what I have planned to put in there for a system is AMD. Starting out with the mother board:
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0
CPU
AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8150FRGUBOX
Video Card
XFX Double D FX-785A-CDFC Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support
Power Supply
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSC00-80GAD3-US 1200W ATX 12V v2.3 / EPS 12V v2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC
Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion (70SB135400000) 5.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Express x1 Interface Sound Card with Sound Blaster I/O
Memory I havent really decided on. I know I will be going to the max at 32 GB.
I still have alot of work to do. As soon as the new camera comes in I will get pics. The old cam after 5 years puked. Not sure what happened. Put in the desk and 6 months later tried to turn it on and nothing. Not even with new batteries.