Show me your "Spare" rig's!

kewldude007 · December 4, 2016, 5:11am

My spare is a suit case

Kewldude007's Suitcase Gaming PC [BUILD LOG] [56K WARNING] Build Logs

NOTE: before you go any farther into this thread DO NOT ask why I built this please read the entire OP, I will aim to answer all questions before they are asked TL;DR: none for you, read the whole thread yah lazy bahstard BEGIN So one fine day at work my supervisor came up to me asking me if I wanted this [image] A case originally meant to haul around a projector and all its gear, he came by it because the person it belongs to no longer works where I do. And stuff like this just collects in my lab. SO MY IMMEDIATE FIRST THOUGHT Let's put a PC in it END PROLOGUE Just trying with some parts on how to go about this [image] Obviously I wanted this thing to close so a tower cooler and vertical GPU were NOT HAPPENING ALTERNATIVE BUT EQUALLY FAILED POSITION [image] Finally I settled on where to put the guts [image] hot-knifed hole for the PSU [image] [image] hole for I/O (yes this pic was taken after the PC was built, deal with it) [image] I am currently in the process of making a locking, protective cover for this now to put the GPU somewhere... Since I am so fortunate to work in a prototyping lab, I naturally have access to 3D printers So I used Onshape (free online CAD) to adapt a bitcoin mining test bench I found on thingiverse [image] [image] My printer is capable of embedding fiber some I threw some fiberglass in there (that off white stuff) the rest is proprietary Nylon 6 which is the only "filament" this printer can use THINGIVERSE LINK TO UPDATED MODEL OF BRACKET https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1678381 So naturally the next step was to acquire a GPU because the GTX 780 you saw pictured above had been sold off to a forum moderator because I had no use for it That day also happened to be the launch day of the RX 480 [image] so yeah I went and got a 8GB xfx at microcenter at lunch its starting to like a gaming PC now [image] Before I actually installed the bracket and 480 I had to make sure the card was …