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Default Conceptual Stage: "Wind Tunnel"

Inspired by the deskputer (it had some guy's bigass water aquarium thing next to a water-cooling loop built into the guy's desk along with his mobo - found it here) I saw somewhere else, I want to make a minimalistic-ish air cooling variant of this.

I dub it "Project Wind Tunnel".

meticadpa has kindly put his sketchup skills to the task of the conceptual drawings which, so far, yield just these two pics - a 100% wood construction variant and the second, wood for the desk parts and acrylic for the wind tunnel hutch part.

If anyone knows more about airflow engineering than I do I would appreciate comments on mobo orientation, etc. I plan to put two 120mm fans in front and two in back. The dimensions are as follows:

Desk top - 3 feet by 5 feet (approx)
Desk height - 2.5 feet (approx)
Wind Tunnel hutch - 1 foot by 1.5 feet by 3 feet

So far this is purely at the conceptual stage. I ultimately plan to budget about $500 for this come next year as I acquire supplies and convince my dad to help lend his tool-using expertise to the task.
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The design as you requested sir:


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Might be too impractical to try and put acrylic at the top and side forming the frame of the desk, but cutting a rectangle into the top might work. Wonder how a mobo should sit in it; might be most practical to put the mobo so the ATX connectors go out the left side of the hutch.

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Another update as you requested:

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If those are to-scale sized parts (full ATX mobo, PSU etc) I might not need to use the full length of the cavity to create the Wind Tunnel.

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I'm not entirely sure if they are scaled, though I know the power supply and the GPU are, the motherboard seems unusually small to me.
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Hmm... well this modification might make sense then. Basically make the PSU fan replace the position of one of the exhausts.
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I'm not entirely sure if they are scaled, though I know the power supply and the GPU are, the motherboard seems unusually small to me.
They look really close if they arent. The Mobo is way too small compared to the GPU. Also, if the intakes and exhaust are supposed to be 120mm fans then the holes are Way to big, those holes look more like 200mm+ fan holes. Along with that, if you are planning to use the PSU fan as an exhaust like you have in that picture you are going to have to move the other 120 exhaust over because the PSU will take up more than 120mm across the back.
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Yeah. I'l need to watch-out for the dimensions of the hutch. A 120mm fan is nominally 4.7 inches in length and width. A standard ATX PSU is nominally 150 mm by 150 mm give or take a little. So that means the total width of the hutch should be at least 120 + 150 + a tolerance of another 10 mm for a total of around 12 inches in width. Since the hutch is planned to be approximately 14-15 inches wide I am well beyond the required dimensional tolerance for two 120 mm fans at the front and one 120 mm fan at the rear plus a PSU with an intake fan on its bottom.

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