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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
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
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