Walk In Computer Case

[fitz58]

I had to do this Wife's orders "Clean it up ,make it look nice or get banished to the attic."
I put the computers in the closet,made a horizontal base out of plexiglass(I
got from dumpster diving , in fact all the desk wood is recyled stuff).The size is 28"Long X 48" High X 12" Wide,it holds 2 motherboards, 6 HDDs, 3 power supplies (1 just powers the fans), 8 fans, a modem, and a router.With this all open and MB's in horiz. the heat pipes I have cooling are much more efficient.Air is supplied to the closet through a 3" hole in the floor w/ 80mm Tornado fan that has 3"flex duct pipe leading to basement Oil tank room(very cool Temp there).Air is then vented out through 4" hole in outside wall w/120mm fan w/ dryer duct vent on outside. Wires then go through wall to desk.
Yes all wires are loose,If I zip up all the wires I'll have to cut them every time I change something(I'm the kind of guy who can't leave well enough alone). I made this for two reasons to get rid of the fan noise and so I can have very easy access to all components.Cabinet in the middle holds 3 optical drives,and monitoring access panel.
The monitor on the left is basically a NEC MultiSync LCD1970NX(New cost $450 USD).That I purchased in parts from Ebay and built myself.
I got the Lcd screen 1st new $42 shipped, next the OSD board $12 shipped,then the Inverter board & the controller board $32 shipped. It took some bit of research to find the schematics for, but possible.I made a basic stand out of plexglas and attached the boards to the back(Osd & computer power controls are glued to the bottom of the frame).
This model has an auxiliary USB hook up,which means by connecting 1 line in USB I get 4 out. I then made wooden cabinets to put both monitors in, also stuck my speakers behind it inside the cabinet(Just to make it neat & complete).Another great thing about this model is you can plug 2 different sources of video into it (got a feed of the TV).
So all together it cost me only $101 USD!!!


1:
TForce 965PT
Pentium D 935 3666 gHz (16 x 221) w/ScytheNinja 120mm fan
CPU 32c GPU 35c
Transcend 4GB PC2-6400 5-5-5-15 2t
ATI Radeon X850 XT
HDrive - ST3320620AS (298 GB)(SATA2)
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M
2:
AthlonXP 3000+2.6 ghz(10.5x219) w/Silent Tower 120mm fan
CPU 30c GPU 35c
SY-KT880 Dragon 2 v2.0
Elixor PC3200 2/512,2/256mb
Saphire 9600 256mb
HDrive WDC WD1200JB-00DUA0 (111 GB, IDE)
HDrive WDC WD800JB-00ETA0 (74 GB, IDE)
HDrive Maxtor 5 T040H4 SCSI Disk Device (40 GB,IDE)
SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B

[KarmaKiller]

Wow..
Nice...
Never really though about doing something like that...

[2monsters]

Nice job! Pretty creative. My kids would never allow that

Hey do you do any folding?

[fitz58]

I did awhile back but took to much of my bandwidth, I've got a low DSL connection.

[VHockey86]

looks cool. I prefer to have mine all sprawled out so its easier to use. I wouldn't be able to stand having a monitor in a little cabinet and a keyboard on a drawer like that but to each his own.

Sure beats the attic

[KarmaKiller]

OFF TOPIC:

Originally Posted by fitz58

I did awhile back but took to much of my bandwidth, I've got a low DSL connection.

I got a 3Meg DSL line, and folding barely takes up any bandwidth.
The only reason we bring it up, is you got a farm waiting to happen, and TIMO needs all the member we can get.

Anywho, I really like how you did the LCD. I've never though about buying parts and making my own.

[fitz58]

3 meg twice what I got. And I do understand as I was a member , but I respectively decline.

[butch81385]

Did you run power buttons to the desk, or do you just leave the comps on 24/7?

As a side note, I used to FAD and it only downloaded and uploaded 1 file every couple of days, which wasn't bad, even on dialup. As for folding, I never really liked its interface like I did with FAD and never used it so I don't know its downloading. Either way, nice setup

[fitz58]

Butch81385,
Yes I did and through the use of an access panel I've got the mic , headphones, and USB.
Nob on the left of drives controls exhaust fan.

[sr71000]

nice setup fitz. Forgive me for being a pita about this but there are different types of folding projects. Some are used for web statistics which will tie up your internet as you saw (such as dimes i believe it's called) while others use processing power! Wouldn't bug you about it except that i know that unless you're on dialup then you shouldn't even notice the bandwidth being used by a folding client like fah! Happy computing. Good luck with your setup!!

On a side note, how's that pentium D running? Any heat issues?

and by side note...i mean more to the point of your post