[Herts] Using server components in a desktop

[David Honour]

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It's gonna have to be about 225x495x500mm minimum to fit everything in.
It also has to be vented top and bottom for maximum passive airflow.

Materials, I was thinking possibly a bit of 1.5mm sheet aluminium for
most of it, doubled up in places (like for the motherboard tray). Also
wooden blocks (painted black) with white foam for feet (means I don't
have to do 90 degree metal bits, can just screw in).

Tools: pillar drill, jigsaw, circular saw, normal drill, normal saws,
file. Plus can wrangle an afternoon with good metal tools, but prob
not more.

A render and the blender file for the current mockup is here.
http://www.foolswood.co.uk/dumpground/

The psu is modular and the cpu coolers are HR01X (which means I'm
gonna have to think of a way to support them more). One square in the
blender is 2.5cm.

Initially it would only have the 1 cpu and hdd, but I'm putting them in
the mockup so I don't put some case in the way or something thick like
that.

To make what's in the drawing will, I think, cost around £35-£40.

David

On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:44:40 +0100
Mike Roberts <hertslug at mikerobe.org> wrote:

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> David Honour wrote:
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> > It's looking like I'm gonna have to make my own case, since passive
> > cooling eatx towers don't seem to exist. Is there any advice anyone
> > can give me about this?
> 
> What tools do you have access to and what materials?  You might be 
> better off deciding how big a box you need and then either buying an 
> electronics equipment case of some kind (radio ham rallies are good
> for this kind of kit cheap), asking on here (you never know what
> someone on here might have), re-purposing another box of some kind
> and last of all buying a new electronics box / enclosure from 
> rs/cpc/farnell/maplin/jaycar etc (check out Everyday Electronics
> magazine)
> 
> Will help if I can but need more info... ;)
> 
> Mike 8-{>
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> > David
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> > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:39:04 +0100
> > David Honour <david at foolswood.co.uk> wrote:
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> >> I want to build a machine for music production, which means:
> >> - -ram for tmpfs for the active project
> >> - -good cpu (my current one doesn't cut it anymore)
> >> - -passive cooling
> >>
> >> I was thinking maybe an opteron based system but it seems to be
> >> quite hard to get hold of motherboards for them though.
> >>
> >> My previous one which I still use is now 5 so I am expecting it to
> >> be in use for a reasonably long time.
> >>
> >> Is this a good idea or would I be better with a normal desktop?
> >>
> >> David
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