Wall mount PC I made - Pics.

[lsv]

What do you do for EM protection?

 

[dsity]

As an artist I feel like instead of black...you could have done some crazy interesting (maybe abstract) artwork meshed with those pc components. Instead you have black emptiness. I do give you props. It's a neat idea, I may try it myself.

 

[mcvickj]

Impressive. Is the ribbon you have connecting the video card to the motherboard a special order item? What is above the cold cathode tube? I'm guessing some type of LED setup for HD and PWR activity?

 

[amdhunter]

With my luck, if I did that a waterbug would walk into a fan and I'd have waterbug splooge all over my face.

Dunno why, I don't have roaches, but the occasional waterbug keeps finding its way into my house lately.

 

[meltdown75]

very sweet.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Where did you get the ribbon cable to connect the video card?

 

[dman]

Where did you get the ribbon cable to connect the video card?

Not that I want one, but, that is interesting.

If you are going to go to that much trouble I'd go ahead and get a cable wrap or something to make it less obvious that the cables need to be connected to the monitors. Or you could just Photoshop the pictures before posting just to mess with people.

 

[Bigblades]

Impressive. Is the ribbon you have connecting the video card to the motherboard a special order item? What is above the cold cathode tube? I'm guessing some type of LED setup for HD and PWR activity?

It is a fan monitor. I have temp sensors in the processor, ram, and graphics card. It monitors all those temperatures and allows me to adjust the fans. I was worried about temperatures without it being enclosed when I first built it so I figured this would give me a way to make sure it didn't get too hot.

I'm decent at building computers but I am horrible at taking pictures so in like 5 shots I took this one was the best one / =

 

[Bigblades]

I'd have to look up where I got that cable. It was a custom flesible riser with EMI shielding on it. It cost about 60 bucks. If anyone is actually interested in buying one I could go through my e-mail logs and find out what the name of the company was.

 

[thirdeye]

Very interesting idea. As others have voiced, I'd try to do some sort of cable hiding. If you had the wires tucked it would definitely have more of a 'wow' factor. Good work though!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Looks cool, isn't it noisier that way though with all those fans right out there in the open just above ear level?

 

[Krazy4Real]

Post up a more recent picture now that you organized the cables. It looks pretty kick ass though. Nice job.

 

[gaidensensei]

Looks nice, but it's Crazy for reals.
What if all that stuff happens to be shaking like mad in a quake?

 

[Bigblades]

Looks cool, isn't it noisier that way though with all those fans right out there in the open just above ear level?

It really depends. Most of the fans aren't an issue. There is one fan that gets sort of loud on the power supply and it only started doing that recently. I think I just need to take the power supply apart and replace it.

The noise things I didn't consider though are the sounds of hard drives spinning or when I put a CD in. I don't use Cd's very often though, so the worst noise culprit is a rare one.

Overall it isn't louder than a normal PC would be in terms of decibals at all. The difference is that normal PC's sound isn't mitigated much by the case enclosure itself, but it is usually put under a desk or close to the ground. My computer is at ear level and above the desk. The computer itself isn't any louder but it is in a location where it projects the noise more than a normal computer would. It isn't something I realized until months after I did this project. If it gets louder I can always put some acrylic over it.

 

[TheVrolok]

I'm thinking about doing something fun like that with my next system (or perhaps my next system will be in a case and then this system will be the "fun one"). Cool!

 

[Bigblades]

Post up a more recent picture now that you organized the cables. It looks pretty kick ass though. Nice job.

I can do that once I'm home.

 

[AMDZen]

LOVE IT

Come over and do this to mine and I will smoke you u up / buy you beer ... whichever your poison, or both of course

 

[Bigblades]

Would there be a general interest for a tutorial on how to do a computer like this? There seems to be a lot of people interested in doing something like this for their next system and I would be happy to share all I learned from doing this one.

If I did another one I'd do several things different.

1) Use a modular power supply so I don't hvae extra cables

2) Make sure cables are the right length for the distance they travels os I don't have "bundles" of excess cabling visible.

3) buy an LED kit to back light the parts by drilling through the board and running some of the wires behind the board.

4) Get a CD-rom drive that doesn't look so lame.

 

[Bigblades]

LOVE IT

Come over and do this to mine and I will smoke you u up / buy you beer ... whichever your poison, or both of course

If you live in the Tampa Bay area I'd be happy to help you with a project like this on a Saturday. I'm an engineer and I'm new to the area so I don't have jack shit better to do.

 

[luv2liv]

i also wanna know where you got that vid card adapter!
how much does the whole thing weight?

 

[ElFenix]

that riser cable is an interesting item. i'd love to move my graphics card lower in my system and make room for a fan.


i've thought about mounting a motherboard on the back of my desk as a low power computer, rather than having a tower. it'd have to be super low power though without any sound insulation back there.

 

[Bigblades]

The riser card is a PE-FLEX16R-A10" from Adex Electronics. I looked at a dozen different companies that do riser cards and theirs was one of the few that was properly EMI shielded to prevent data degredation for it to go this distance.

To be perfectly honest with the motherboard I chose I really could have gone with an 9" or 8" cable and still have had enough length. Notice I'm not plugged in to the bottom PCIE 16x slot?

Not sure wtf I'd ever do if I wanted to get crossfire though.

 

[zinfamous]

It really depends. Most of the fans aren't an issue. There is one fan that gets sort of loud on the power supply and it only started doing that recently. I think I just need to take the power supply apart and replace it.

The noise things I didn't consider though are the sounds of hard drives spinning or when I put a CD in. I don't use Cd's very often though, so the worst noise culprit is a rare one.

Overall it isn't louder than a normal PC would be in terms of decibals at all. The difference is that normal PC's sound isn't mitigated much by the case enclosure itself, but it is usually put under a desk or close to the ground. My computer is at ear level and above the desk. The computer itself isn't any louder but it is in a location where it projects the noise more than a normal computer would. It isn't something I realized until months after I did this project. If it gets louder I can always put some acrylic over it.

is the PSU fan located on the bottom of that unit? that's what it looks like in the pic. Is the mounting board solid beneath that, or did you cut out a hole to allow the fan to ventilate? Could be a simple problem, much easier resolved than replacing the PSU fan...

 

[ElFenix]

The riser card is a PE-FLEX16R-A10" from Adex Electronics. I looked at a dozen different companies that do riser cards and theirs was one of the few that was properly EMI shielded to prevent data degredation for it to go this distance.

To be perfectly honest with the motherboard I chose I really could have gone with an 9" or 8" cable and still have had enough length. Notice I'm not plugged in to the bottom PCIE 16x slot?

Not sure wtf I'd ever do if I wanted to get crossfire though.

holy crap google has already indexed this post

 

[Fritzo]

Single, are you?