Hi everyone
Please find pictures of my latest project, I have grown very tired of the poor pc cases available these days, even Lian cases have their issues !! so my project was to fit a pc into a hifi2000 rack case .. so at least it would look good in my front room, so instead of making a power amplifier I made a pc instead.
Its a quad core 3.2Ghz i7 has 2 SSD under the chassis and one 1tb drive for data. I use this for music (jriver18) and plays BlueRay discs using powerDVD 13 .. I have listed the construction photo by photo
I am really pleased with it as one point I nearly gave up, also I have no overheating issues at all.
so pic below of the main chassis being developed
Front Panel completed ...
Now the rear panel being completed ...
Basic case completed ... now free standing
Pics showing SSD drives ..
More pics of underneath the main motherboard chassis
Final PC all working
what do you all think ?? also please note that brown and blue wires underneath are 12v not mains !! the 12v is used to power external CD optical drives etc. I have ripped my cd collection in wav via DP poweramp (which does tag wav files) and plays very good through Jriver18
best regards Nick
Please find pictures of my latest project, I have grown very tired of the poor pc cases available these days, even Lian cases have their issues !! so my project was to fit a pc into a hifi2000 rack case .. so at least it would look good in my front room, so instead of making a power amplifier I made a pc instead.
Its a quad core 3.2Ghz i7 has 2 SSD under the chassis and one 1tb drive for data. I use this for music (jriver18) and plays BlueRay discs using powerDVD 13 .. I have listed the construction photo by photo
I am really pleased with it as one point I nearly gave up, also I have no overheating issues at all.
so pic below of the main chassis being developed
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Front Panel completed ...
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Now the rear panel being completed ...
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Basic case completed ... now free standing
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Pics showing SSD drives ..
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More pics of underneath the main motherboard chassis
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Final PC all working
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what do you all think ?? also please note that brown and blue wires underneath are 12v not mains !! the 12v is used to power external CD optical drives etc. I have ripped my cd collection in wav via DP poweramp (which does tag wav files) and plays very good through Jriver18
best regards Nick
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Thanks chaps
This took a lot of work to complete this, do you like my hard drive springs that the main drive sits on? no vibration through the case
all the best
Nick
This took a lot of work to complete this, do you like my hard drive springs that the main drive sits on? no vibration through the case
all the best
Nick
Hi
Thanks again for the comments, the Graphics card is a HIS5500 1g DDR5 mem, as I had this card kicking around and the design spec was not a games machine.
How ever I was surprised how well this card with a i7 4 core cpu performed better then I expected. Most older Games run fine .. I am playing heroes over Europe with the settings set to high in 1080p at approx 40 frames per second. It plays all movies including Blueray etc, and the main use high res music files, on this build I was limited by the height, but I have just noticed you can get a ATI5770 in the low height spec now.
Watch this space for my next build in a rack case ... also I may try a version with off board water cooling in a separate rack case
Thanks again and a happy DIY audio Christmas to all
regards
Nick
Thanks again for the comments, the Graphics card is a HIS5500 1g DDR5 mem, as I had this card kicking around and the design spec was not a games machine.
How ever I was surprised how well this card with a i7 4 core cpu performed better then I expected. Most older Games run fine .. I am playing heroes over Europe with the settings set to high in 1080p at approx 40 frames per second. It plays all movies including Blueray etc, and the main use high res music files, on this build I was limited by the height, but I have just noticed you can get a ATI5770 in the low height spec now.
Watch this space for my next build in a rack case ... also I may try a version with off board water cooling in a separate rack case
Thanks again and a happy DIY audio Christmas to all
regards
Nick
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I think the brackets where purchased from RS or Farnel components
They are nothing special just a small heavy duty right angled bracket with 4mm holes for mounting.
regards
Nick
I think the brackets where purchased from RS or Farnel components
They are nothing special just a small heavy duty right angled bracket with 4mm holes for mounting.
regards
Nick
Hi Nick, congratulations, a great project, I love it. If I could make a suggestion, I think that the front panel would look better if the Neutrik USB socket was a black version and/or mounted from behind the panel.
Regards.
Tony
Regards.
Tony
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Good suggestion, I may try that next on my 2nd pc build
thanks for the constructive feedback
Nick
Good suggestion, I may try that next on my 2nd pc build
thanks for the constructive feedback
Nick
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Also I have notice as yet that neutrik do not do a USB3 or Esata connector yet, I use esata for connection to the external blueray drive
regards
Nick
Also I have notice as yet that neutrik do not do a USB3 or Esata connector yet, I use esata for connection to the external blueray drive
regards
Nick
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Hello all
Just a update on my PC project, I have just completed a matching optical blue-ray drive to match the PC case. It uses a standalone power supply +12and +5 volts. this difficult part was to match the center slot to the drive position before drilling any mounting holes for the drive. I have using Esata connection to the master pc.
The relay is for remote switching (wife friendly) when the drive see's 12v from the main pc the drive starts up, just in case the master power switch may be off. What do you all think?
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Just a update on my PC project, I have just completed a matching optical blue-ray drive to match the PC case. It uses a standalone power supply +12and +5 volts. this difficult part was to match the center slot to the drive position before drilling any mounting holes for the drive. I have using Esata connection to the master pc.
The relay is for remote switching (wife friendly) when the drive see's 12v from the main pc the drive starts up, just in case the master power switch may be off. What do you all think?
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Also today I thought the drive was slightly off level, looks OK now after some careful shimming adjustments (washers 🙂 )
I will upload some more pics when in use with the master PC .. going to use Cyberlink 14 ultra
regards
Nick
Also today I thought the drive was slightly off level, looks OK now after some careful shimming adjustments (washers 🙂 )
I will upload some more pics when in use with the master PC .. going to use Cyberlink 14 ultra
regards
Nick
Hello all .. just noticed some of the picture links are no longer in use .. I will update these this week
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