{"id":231,"date":"2001-12-01T19:28:46","date_gmt":"2001-12-01T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-02-24T20:57:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T20:57:44","slug":"compucube-case-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"CompuCube Case Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the description of the greatest computer case ever. I had a computer that needed a new home. It has an Athlon XP 1800 on an EPOX EP-8K7A+, a Radeon All-in-wonder 8500 DVI, a sound blaster Audigy with a Live Drive, 10\/100, CAK38, 24x Burner, 16x DVD, floppy, Smart Media and Compact Flash reader, 4 USB’s with a 4 port hub on 1, and a whole lotta RAM, 512 DDR. She neded a home to show off her power. First, let’s talk about why. Well, with a standard case, there’s several design flaws. FIrst of all, the way air flows through a standard computer, it goes from the front to the back. So, if air goes in the front, picks up heat, and blows it out the back, the computer sould be cold, right? No. The idea is that the air behind the computer will exchange the heat evenly with the room, meaining it should be no hotter behind the computer than the room. But the way it works in reality is that the air that is emitted from the computer sits back there, in a confined space, meaning the hot air from the computer pools behind the machine, and insulates the heat from leaving the inside of the case. This wouldn’t be a problem if people would leave their computer in the middle of a room, but unfortunately, the interface part of the machine is in the front, so it makes sense to have the front of the computer facing out and the back tucked in a corner, or under a desk, or against a wall. Thus, the current standard design for a computer case provides for the inside of the case to be a higher temperature than it should be. Second, the hottest component of the inside of a computer is the CPU, and in most machines has it’s own fan blowing air directly on a large heat sink. Think about it folks. We’ve already seen that air inside the case is hotter than it should be. Why would a fan inside a computer, which gets the air to blow from the same space it is blowing to, help in the cooling of the case? All it is doing is making the heat from the CPU transfer into the air in the case, which then sits there and builds up because the air cannot escape out the back. Finally, while we’re talking about heat, there’s more than just the CPU in the computer that generates heat. The CD Roms, the hard drive, and any other little add in’s that aren’t directly connected to the motherboard should be separated from it, so that the motherboard and it’s attachments are the only heat producing elements in the compartment. Well, there’s some pretty simple ways to fix all of these problems. First of all, the case can be made to take up some desk space, and from there, the airflow can be made to go from side to side, while the interface still remains in the front. Second of all, the motherboard can be on the top of the computer, and it can have a chimney connecting the CPU fan to the outside of the case so it gets it’s own cold, fresh air supply. Finally, the motherboard can be separated into its own compartment and all of the other components into another compartment, with small holes put in the compartment divider for the necessary cables to pass through. One more idea, to make the computer more portable, a third compartment can be added to the bottom of the computer, and in there there can be sub compartments for cables or other things to go, basically storage compartments. Another reason for wanting to do this is because I look at a lot of websites where case mods are featured, and I was already looking into putting a window in my old case and some lights. The acrylic looks awesome, and to have it a custom shape is a symbol of status for geeks around the world.
As you can see, it’s fairly easy to design something like this. The ideas are simple and effective. So, I set to work on designing this case.
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\nAs you can see, I first came up with a basic design, planned out all of the cables, and then started on a real design. What you’ll see there is that there are 2 designs with jsut a few changes. That is because the model which I built first, pictured below, was fitted with a motherboard and found that the length needed to be adjusted. Good thing I made the model, if I built it out of acrylic and it didn’t fit, bad.
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