Wood Case Number Two

Here's a story board of my new wood case-hackintash.

Thanks for checking it out.

http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/heretolearn7/Airs Crafts Wood computer Case/story

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Wow! Another great build! I dabble in both woodworking and building hackintoshes. Like I said last time, your cases are a great combination of both.

Keep up the great work!

Is that Red Oak?

Always great to see some different ideas.

Is this also used as a table/stool?

Well done on such an unusual project

It looks as though you made changes to your layout as you went along. That huge CPU heatsink going and the stock cooler replacing it gave you more space. I imagine moving the motherboard slightly further away from the PSU lessened the chances of EM interference and allowed better airflow with the PSU fan-up.

Always good to see inventiveness!

Wow! Looks great from here Thanks for sharing!!

grg3 said:

Wow! Another great build! I dabble in both woodworking and building hackintoshes. Like I said last time, your cases are a great combination of both.

Keep up the great work!

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Thanks grg3 I saw a lamp on Lumberjocks and just had to make it into a computer case.
Here's a picture of the lamp and my try at copying his style.



UtterDisbelief I started this out with the idea of the tower fan light as part of the build but it didn't center the space and just took away from the look of the lamp, plus made way to much noise.
I've hardly ever used a stock fan on a build in 20 years of building computers but I'm not a gamer and not planing to over clock so the stock fan was in a drawer so gave it a try and it works just fine and way quieter.

UtterDisbelief
I made quite a few changes along the way.

This build was done with parts on hand.
I would have loved to use a smaller power supply but used what I had.

The power supply blows out the back it gets it's fresh air from underneath and has space behind the PS and MB so it is also sucking air down from under the MB.
Those large windows let in plenty of air, I closed in the back so in the future if it needs more air I can add a fan, but things are working
just fine for now.

I added a stand alone hot swap and dvd drive station.
It also houses a amplifier for my head phones.
It also gives me a safe place to store my hard drives.


I found a brass post office box door at a yard sale and it was just the thing to go along with my lamp computer.

I really needed to add a few more picture of the last steps of the build.


Here is the final lay out of the PS and MB.
You can see in the second to last picture there is quite a bit a space behind the power supply to suck air from up above.

I really wanted the tower in there I even went back and tried it again but no love.
I did end up taking out the white plastic in this step and made an oak spacer to replace it.
Will never be seen but just didn't like the white.