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mATX, 2mm thick aluminium sheet metal portable case with handle on top. 22L full size components.
Well at the moment all I have is a idea and all the numbers (I hope) figured out. And ofc the stuff formalized in Autocad and Autodesk Inventor. I just sent the drawings to one of the local machine shops for a price quote for a laser cutting. Although the tolerances are such that I could probably get away also with either plasma or water cutting if none of the local laser guys are willing to talk to me.
It will be strictly air cooled atm. I have carrier around a water cooled behemoths for the past some years (current rig is 32 kg I'm lugging around daily) and I want it all feather light! For me this means somewhere between 7 and 10 kg (HDD's are heavy and I need at minimum 2 of them). So some pictures of the idea:



The outside dimensions of it will be: 425 mm long; 273 mm wide; 210 mm high (+ 52mm of handle + ~20 mm of feet); Dry weight: 2.9 ... 3.0 kg; Material 2mm aluminium sheet metal.
I have intentionally pretty much choked the GFX card(s) by not providing openings on the side panels for keeping some of the noise inside the case. I am planning to compensate with ~ 125 cfm 180mm fan in front of the case. Hopefully the case would act as wind tunnel with just a single inward blowing strong fan. Unless the air will just escape through the bottom ventilation grills in which case I will probably have to duct tape these close. For cable management I'm planning to use 15mm motherboard riser bolts so some of the cabling might be possible to hide under the motherboard. Or I might use a fully modular PSU for reduced clutter. Components I will figure out once I get the case done.
Well at the moment all I have is a idea and all the numbers (I hope) figured out. And ofc the stuff formalized in Autocad and Autodesk Inventor. I just sent the drawings to one of the local machine shops for a price quote for a laser cutting. Although the tolerances are such that I could probably get away also with either plasma or water cutting if none of the local laser guys are willing to talk to me.
It will be strictly air cooled atm. I have carrier around a water cooled behemoths for the past some years (current rig is 32 kg I'm lugging around daily) and I want it all feather light! For me this means somewhere between 7 and 10 kg (HDD's are heavy and I need at minimum 2 of them). So some pictures of the idea:
The outside dimensions of it will be: 425 mm long; 273 mm wide; 210 mm high (+ 52mm of handle + ~20 mm of feet); Dry weight: 2.9 ... 3.0 kg; Material 2mm aluminium sheet metal.
I have intentionally pretty much choked the GFX card(s) by not providing openings on the side panels for keeping some of the noise inside the case. I am planning to compensate with ~ 125 cfm 180mm fan in front of the case. Hopefully the case would act as wind tunnel with just a single inward blowing strong fan. Unless the air will just escape through the bottom ventilation grills in which case I will probably have to duct tape these close. For cable management I'm planning to use 15mm motherboard riser bolts so some of the cabling might be possible to hide under the motherboard. Or I might use a fully modular PSU for reduced clutter. Components I will figure out once I get the case done.