Gaming chassis ideas

First of all, nice designs everyone. I must say that you all have started a new computer fashion all over the world, well at least in sweden.

DanShort - Modular case

Must say that your idea is both smart and crazy, love how you snapp the chassi together like lego.

I hope you all good luck with your project.

Cheers Richard

DanShort - Your chassi looks really good ! Keep on the good job!

Hello Dan, love your design on the flow case, very innovative and beautiful.

I have an idea though. By Changing the design into a BTX motherboard design (motherboard is mounted upside down with I/O ports and CPU part of it in the bottom and GFX card slots in the top) and then take your fabulous looking harddrive mounting system galore and mirror it. This way you can fit larger GFX cards and still keep the case fairly small. On my image ther's only 4 drives, personally i think that's enough but you can apply the same idea with more drives if u like. I chose to put 5,25 slots in the bottom because i think a case like this should sit on the desk so others can see it and then the dvd drive f/e will be easily accessible from the side. It is after all a really good looking case. This can probably be solved in other ways, using slim drives for example. You seem like a creative guy so you'll probably figure out what's best.

The proportions of this image is probably quite off, since its not based on any measurements at all but it should give you an idea of what i'm thinking. Hopefully its useful in some way.

I'm not sure about the best way to sort the airflow. Look at the lian li v1200 / v2000 for some inspiration. I tried to illustrate one cooling solution in the image above but it's far from perfect. I'll do some thinking and if i have further suggestions i'll post them here.

It would probably be better to place the PSU with the fan facing downwards and allow it to take in fresh air from under the case. More exhaust fans are needed, especially if the PSU is flipped (the way i think you intended it to be in the first placed). Though I havent figured out where to put one, the roof maybe?

When using 2 graphics cards that blow the hot air out of the case im sure the config in the pic would work really well. But if you only use 1 graphics card or use aftermarket coolers that doesn't exhaust the air from the case, there might be to much air coming into the case and to little air begin sucked out. It's essential to have some sort of exhaust in the top of the case to prevent the air from heating up, rising and getting stuck in the top of the case. Perhaps a large inlet fan like in the pic will reduce this effect. I havent tried this in practise :P.

Smashing!

Now build it so I can buy one...

What do you have in mind for ventilating out the hot air? Perhaps you could make the whole rear end of the case in perforated aluminium, would be a shame to put holes in that clean looking roof. The standard fan-placement next to the I/O ports on the back of the case is used on 99% of all cases for a reason :P.

May I ask what you render with?

That is a beauty. I will buy one even if i cant afford it.

They're using Rhino (Rhinoceros) I belive.

http://www.rhino3d.com/

Was thinking the same . I'm pretty confident it'll win. got 28% of the votes atm on webhallen.com.

It's gonna be brilliant and i'm gonna get one, somehow. Will be intresting to see how they plan on producing it. All those airtunnels will probably make it quite expensive. If it's below 5000kr i might consider buying one. If not I'll build one myself XD

The air that cools the HDs, where will it exit the case? I dont see any holes for it.

Have you thought about how the case will open up? I'm guessing the left part of the case with the two circle thingies will be removable, but what about the front are where the HD's are? Best way would be if the whole section would be one piece that slides and locks into place, but I think that would be more expensive to manufacture. Screws into the side panel there would ruin the clean look.

Cable management. Have you thought about that? There will need to be one cable between HD-PSU and one cable between the HD-MB. The HD channels looks quite closed off, so that would have to be solved somehow.
It looks like the powercable to the HDs will be quite long, it will probably require extra long cables. Not a big deal though.

The empty space underneath the CD/DVD, that is currently not being used at all? I think the SSD drives requires less cooling, so perhaps use that are for a some SSD drives.

All in all, looks nice. Not as "far out" or different as some of the other ideas, but really nice. Especially the red/white combination looks sweet.

Damn.

You should have taken that HDD out of your iMac before sending it to Steve Jobs

(Some says he eats HDD's for breakfast... )

Strange, when running Safari it automatically scales the pictures right, but not when using Firefox.

Anyway I really looking forward to see the finished product soon. It's been great fun following you.

woa... that sucks, sorry to hear that. I guess that is Murphy's law in effect... If something can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time.

Right, as you told me to post this in your main thread aswell that's what I'm gonna do.

This case is my own version of the flow concept featuring a BTX layout. The image lacks some details such as locking mechanisms for the doors and cable management canals aswell as a proper solution of the cooling. This is because emphasis was on showing dan how space could me managed differently by using a BTX motherboard layout.

I find this design pretty exciting so I will continue to work on it and add all the details aswell as sorting out the cooling which is unfinished on this version of the case. I will try to solve it differently from what Dan did in his design and explore a different concept of the idea.

Ser väldigt bra ut, utrymme utnyttjas väldigt effektivt.

Men varmluftens principer kommer att bli motarbetade med denna design. Du drar ju in luft från toppen och drar ned den och sen ut bakåt, varmluften vill ju stiga uppåt. Vet inte om du hade tänkt samma för hårddisk buren.

Tack. Jo det stämmer det du säger. Jag tror dock inte det blir problem med att luften återanvänds, dvs att det som fläkten i taket blåser ut sugs in igen genom "skorstenen" i fronten. De sitter inte tillräckligt nära varandra och luften på 50cm höjd ovanför golvet är inte nämnvärt varmare än den på golvnivå. Däremot är det viktigt att man har dammfilter, annars kommer den suga i sig en hel del damm.

Egentligen är hela principen att ha böjda luftkanaler ganska svår att jobba med. Det ser väldigt snyggt ut, men det är svårt att lösa kylningen på ett bra sätt utan att det tar upp mycket plats

I wanna have this case badly

nvm, just found the magic button for a static thread width size

Great concept I must say!