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Running a PC without a case

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episodic

Lifer
Anyone got any tips on how to do this effectively? The big problem I have is the power, how do you cut it on with no power switch?

Tips, suggestions, nifty ideas, etc are all appreciated.

Thanks!
 
well you should be able to remove a power switch from an old case and connect it to your moboard. i think the main problem you're gonna face is cooling. where are you gonna put the fans? not to mention dust problems.
 
I've done this a few years back with an old AMD system. I mounted it on the wall with screws and all. I ripped out an old power switch from the case. I had the harddrive mounted on the wall using some random crap I found in the garage. I had the CD-ROM on my desk. It doubled as a paperweight. All you need to do for cooling is get a $10 deskfan and aim it at it and there won't be any dust on it at all for it will blow it all off. Get a nice flat panel monitor for a truely flat PC. When you're all done pat yourself on the back.
 
Forgive my igorance here,

On the motherboard holes, do you just use a regular metal screws to screw it into a wood board?

I was going to use velcro for the harddrive (I think it is strong enough).

I can screw in the Power supply to the wood.

I've got to source some switches since I don't have any old cases. . .

The cd rom, I think I could use velcro as well.

Good plan?

This is going to be for 4 or 5 motherboards to make a little mini crunchin farm. I've got 5 cpu's so far ranging from an athlon 800 to 1.2 ghz athlons. I'm working a deal now on 5 TCC motherboards. After that all I'll need is 5 128 meg SDRAM chips. I'm only going to have the cd attached long nuff to load the os, and I was going to find 5 1.2 gig or so harddrives.
 
by the way, if you don't feel like ripping the power switch out of an old case, just take something metal and connect the two power pins on the motherboard.

I have a 450mhz k6 just lying on my carpet with the psu hooked up and a hard drive. I just have linux running on it and it's worked like a charm. No fans but the cpu fan, no dust problems. I've kicked it around accidentally a couple times, and I still have no problems.

Cases are overated 🙂
 
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