I'm considering build a whole new case from scratch (would be a month or two before I start minimum)
Just wondering if any one has tried this? any links to good examples?
One reason is that I'm currently considering a whole new lay out for air flow, I'm planning on sticking with air cooling not moveing to water cooling.
Standard case airflow layout is front to back, psu above motherboard.
I'm currently considering bottom to top. mounting 3x or 4x 120mm or 140mm fans in the top, psu below motherboard, minimal front/back/side air vents and a massive filter covered hole in the bottom.
The rough idea is all the air will get sucked up from below and blown out of the top.
Any sudgestions on materials? (fairly low cost) I'm pritty sure I can borrow the tech workshop at the school I work at, so I should be able to get access to some decent tools/machinery and hopefully basic materials cheap (nuts, bolts, sheet metal, etc)
I'm pritty sure I can get a motherboard tray out of an old cheiftec case from work, it's a p2 350mhz so is schudaled for the pc graveyard and I'm sure I can divert the the motherboard tray on route
I was thinking of useing slotted angles (not sure exactly whiat this stuff is called) to make a frame and bolting pannels onto it (going to have a bit of a heavy industry look to it)
This sort of stuff
I'm going to do a load of plotting and planning before I start this one.


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: keep it a simple box with my idea for up/down only air flow or while keeping to the same basic air flow principle but do something non square and more intresting looking.








fan-overkill. No way that you'll need 6x140mm fans. I'm pretty happy with one 140mm, one 120mm fan and the CPU-HSF 100mm fan. I'm pretty sure that in this special case one or two barely audible fans are less noisy than six individually hardly audible fans.
(note not the whole top, I'd leave the top spinner/bareing in and a chunk over the optical head, don't want to watch disks destroy themselves or burn out my retinas.)

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) and the sound levels could be improved but it does work well cooling wise.
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