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http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/qq107/Gundapics/PC%20in%20a%20desk/?start=all
I had a few issues along the way.. like my screws into the rad and i still need to finish the face of the draw off a little better but its been running now for many months and the temps are nice and low even with a 4.2Ghz clock and heavy gaming. (never seen over 38c on either loop, when room temp is 28c ish)
Thats...awesome.
*starts looking about the house for modifiable furniture*
had to trash a case to get the bits i needed for it, but was alot of fun building it :)
Gunslinger
22-03-10, 12:44
hehe, thats a novel idea, not seen that before.... nice job
looks pretty slick hows the cooling?
heats my small pc room up nicely, i have the fans on it at min setting all the time as the temps never get above 10c above room temp.
thats pretty sweet how long did that take you?
Ha nice one :thumb:, you should do a proper build log though ;)
pretty unique setup, i like!
marmalade47
07-04-10, 09:06
Very nice
theelusiveyoda
08-04-10, 13:08
seen some one else mod a desk into a case before but he had a plexi glass window at the top of the draw so you could see the hardware inside it was awesome i will find the link its somewhere in my bookmarks.
I did it over a long weekend prob 20-30 hours.
Biggest issues were not with the desk in the end but the watercooling, as i had to dremmel one of the heatsinks on the graphics card so it would fit with the motherboard waterblocks. The computer is only the bottom draw in the desk so i still have 2 draws to store stuff in ontop of it, otherwise i might have looked at putting a plexi top on it also.
Mr. Strawberry
11-04-10, 01:02
that looks awesome :D
Terbinator
11-04-10, 01:10
Thats actually awesome.
thats a nice mod that :thumb:
Sorry, had to be done:
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6893/ikeapc.jpg
Mr. Strawberry
11-04-10, 12:54
lol that is a good one :D
Gunslinger
11-04-10, 14:39
hehehe, "coming to a store near you, super hot deal" (in more ways than one i bet)
Quite neat, never seen anyone do that before.
First time i've seen an in-desk system - might catch on.....
Great idea - very impressed.
First time i've seen an in-desk system - might catch on.....
Great idea - very impressed.
It's even portable if your friend gets the same desk! :rofl:
Hehe , thats cool,
nice one!
Really cool, you could sell those I reckon there would be loads of people interested
Mr. Strawberry
19-04-10, 19:11
desk included :D
be a good deal
desk included :D
be a good deal
That's what I mean, pick a desk, spec a PC. It's the future !
Mr. Strawberry
19-04-10, 19:21
hehe it is a good idea
we should become buissness partners
i vote i get 99% of the profits :D
That's what I mean, pick a desk, spec a PC. It's the future !
+1 on that!
I used to do custom builds and mod cases for people, really was a very small market :( The ones that I've seen that are most impressive are the ones hidden in car dashboards :D I did one for a guy who recently passed away, using a window case and the led bendy flex stuff, I created the Chelsea FC logo for him in the window :D
DT.
the position of the rad looks cool
I used to do custom builds and mod cases for people, really was a very small market :( The ones that I've seen that are most impressive are the ones hidden in car dashboards :D I did one for a guy who recently passed away, using a window case and the led bendy flex stuff, I created the Chelsea FC logo for him in the window :D
DT.
The car interior LED stuff is great. I see the OEM's are doing it on more of their cars now too.
It's just about marketing I reckon, find out who's due on MTV cribs or something then do them one for free, soon as people see The Beckhams/Jay Z/some other A Lister has one they'll fly out
Excellent work fella. However, i would imagine as wood is a great insulator that nothing less that watercooling would do to sufficiently chill the components, no?
Excellent work fella. However, i would imagine as wood is a great insulator that nothing less that watercooling would do to sufficiently chill the components, no?
How about building a computer in a small freezer then? :D
How about building a computer in a small freezer then? :D
Well....Foxconn (iirc) did when they benched an intel 805d over 2 years ago and pushed it to just under 5GHz !!
So....why not? :D
Tolmandary
21-04-10, 10:13
You don't have any problems with noise or vibrations housed in a draw? Very nice idea though having the PC as part of the desk itself and well thought out build looking through the photo's. My immediate thought was to wonder how you prevented over-heating, but the arrays of fans answered that pretty fast!
theelusiveyoda
21-04-10, 10:39
How about building a computer in a small freezer then? :D
you cant just put it in a frezzer after the air condenses it will turn back into water which equals one dead pc
you cant just put it in a frezzer after the air condenses it will turn back into water which equals one dead pc
Humm, must be a way around that problem then... How about covering the PC with gortex?
the draw is quite heavy with all the watercooling gear in there and it sits in runners so no there is no vibration issues. To be honest i didn't think it though too well i just kind of made it up as i went along. Kinda wish i had built it with more sound proofing in mind as i can still hear the water pumps.
Thats pretty amazing mate
a0911091837
23-04-10, 18:38
Great job.. Very unique, but I might still go ahead for my Lian Li case as I love aluminum!
Great mod, unique and well executed. Nice work!
wow that really is amazing GJ!
Lol very cool. Very smart idea and well put together.
Decent mod. just curious but what are the specs on it?
That is slick! +1 for what Huge Pear says. :)
Thanks for this post, I'm currently planning a deskmod although it will probably not be incorporated in a drawer. I've got some sketchup designs floating about will start a separate thread.
Looking great though
Case Ikea desk / draw mod
CPU I7 920 D0
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58
GPU XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5
Water Cooling Custom dual loops cpu/nb/sb & gpu/mosfet
RAM OCZ Reaper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-15000 (1800MHz)
Power Supply Coolermaster Real Power 700w Modular
Audio Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1
Storage 2x OCZ Core V2 30GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive in RAID 0
Monitor Samsung 24" 1920x1200
The watercooling is 2 loops, 1 for the graphics card and mosfets, and the other for the cpu, northbridge and southbridge.
Both loops use a 10w Laing DDC Top/w Reservoir (XSPC).
The CPU loop has a thermochill 120.2PA rad plus 4 panaflows and the graphics card loop has a RX360 rad with 3 xilence red wing fans.
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