You've spent time and money putting together your dream build. Your masterpiece wants to be shown off. It wants room to breath. I don't know about you, but I think how and where you setup your build is as important as the parts inside it.
Have you ever been to someones house and they have one of those wooden desks with the little cabinet on one side? They have their pc sitting in there struggling for air. They open up the door to put in a flash drive and you suddenly feel a blast of fire straight from hell hit you in the face. This may be exaggerating but your rig still needs fresh air to cool its components. In a cabinet it just keeps recirculating that same hot air over and over. It cant breath. It wants to die and it might, from overheating.
If you have a house with carpet you know how dusty everything gets. This brings us to point number two. Don't put your pc on the floor, especially if you have carpet. It will suck up all the dirt particles and dust from the carpet and we all know what dust does to a pc. Sure you can clean it out and you should anyway but you should never let it get like this. . .
Why would you want to hide your pc under your desk anyway. You may have gotten LED fans and a nice windowed side panel. You obviously want to show off something in your case. Don't put it under your desk where not even you can admire it. Get a big desk and put it up there with your monitor. If you really love it then get it its own table or cart.
Your setting up your gaming/workstation and you spent money on your rig. At least get a moderately nice desk for the thing and keep it neat and clean.
I have my case up on a glass cart separate from the rest of the desk that i can easily move around if i need to open it up. It has plenty of space to each side to pull in cool air and exhaust it. The cart even has a little space underneath where i keep my Klipsch sub-woofer.
Obviously for some specialty builds, these things can be discredited. For an example: mods where components are physically -in- the desk. This essentially makes your desk your case.
For HTPC's that don't have a heavy work load; they can be put on a shelf in a home entertainment system.
This is a community of building and overclocking. Take care of your rig so you can actually oc it.
Have you ever been to someones house and they have one of those wooden desks with the little cabinet on one side? They have their pc sitting in there struggling for air. They open up the door to put in a flash drive and you suddenly feel a blast of fire straight from hell hit you in the face. This may be exaggerating but your rig still needs fresh air to cool its components. In a cabinet it just keeps recirculating that same hot air over and over. It cant breath. It wants to die and it might, from overheating.
If you have a house with carpet you know how dusty everything gets. This brings us to point number two. Don't put your pc on the floor, especially if you have carpet. It will suck up all the dirt particles and dust from the carpet and we all know what dust does to a pc. Sure you can clean it out and you should anyway but you should never let it get like this. . .
Why would you want to hide your pc under your desk anyway. You may have gotten LED fans and a nice windowed side panel. You obviously want to show off something in your case. Don't put it under your desk where not even you can admire it. Get a big desk and put it up there with your monitor. If you really love it then get it its own table or cart.
Your setting up your gaming/workstation and you spent money on your rig. At least get a moderately nice desk for the thing and keep it neat and clean.
I have my case up on a glass cart separate from the rest of the desk that i can easily move around if i need to open it up. It has plenty of space to each side to pull in cool air and exhaust it. The cart even has a little space underneath where i keep my Klipsch sub-woofer.
Obviously for some specialty builds, these things can be discredited. For an example: mods where components are physically -in- the desk. This essentially makes your desk your case.
For HTPC's that don't have a heavy work load; they can be put on a shelf in a home entertainment system.
This is a community of building and overclocking. Take care of your rig so you can actually oc it.