A unique build from Wendell
Retina LCD Adapter (adafruit.com sells similar adapters now iirc but you can make your own)
Fun build update! CAD was done at tinkercad.com
Great build @wendell i like the form factor of the case and the mix of parts, great work.
why not mount a lamp arm onto both sides (outside i mean) off the case as to free up space inside for future mod's, adding a strip off 3d printed material to the screen mount and a profile of aluminium to the sides of the case to mount the arms
maybe i should use some sparetime to draw what i mean, let me know if you want that
Lian Li's page says the case uses a standard SFX power supply. Maybe Corsair or Silverstone could help out? I think a full GPU in there would be amusing.
agreed!
Would love to see another video @wendell with a GPU as a crazy LAN party build, maybe go over making it again or what you would/could do differently (I know @Zibob is doing an updated version of his)
Also... GPU should also be Liquid Cooled.... lol
I want to see this, Should make a thread about it
Yup but that z270 is just unbeatable for the PC I am building. I am much more on the laptop scale of power for mine.
Though if the Deskmini RX would ever hurry up and be a thing that would be the ultimate solution. Mxm 480 and socketable CPU in super small form factor. I would probably ditch the standard case and mount the mother board on the back and then make a new enclosure.
EDIT: @wendell how are you powering the screen? I have an adapter but it looks like yours goes into the case somewhere.
Great stuff, add an attachable keyboard and it's almost a modern Compaq Portable III, except with exponentially more MIPS.
I was going to ask about the display setup and that driver/controller board, but I found it. Hoo boy is it expensive. http://dp2retina.rozsnyo.com/
A little project has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now: Portable monitor. Essential a laptop screen with multiple inputs (VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort). Preferably battery powered somehow. Anyone know of a multiple input to single output switcher board of some kind?
Anyway, cool project Wendell. I like the idea of stuffing that much power into such a small space. And yet it is still functional. Love the articulating arm monitor. And that AIO cooler is pretty cool.
Where did you get that display or that adapter board for the display port?
It's just a ipad screen, Ebay
and like @marasm posted
http://dp2retina.rozsnyo.com/
and It's spendy as hell
@Zibob also has a thread, or maybe not
he has stuff about it all over, but not a build thread
his other idea, still waiting.....
oh ya and here is some other ideas he had in lieu of the old way
No never made a thread about it originally. Also not cheap but I really wanted that wackiness and I use the hell out of it. I love these things. I would love to get 2 more and go triple wide, but try pushing 3 2048x1536 monitors, I don't have the power for that and they are useless to me as desktop screens, only games.
@marasm I might know what you are looking for but it is not really cheap, looks nice though.
And the guys shop in general has all sorts of small panels in varying states of finish to suits what you want to do.
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1196030?spm=2114.12010108.0.0.UJmmal
adafruit sells one also, complete kit if you want https://www.adafruit.com/product/1652 with lcd
I wonder if the Qualia board could work with other panels too...
IIRC the iPad panels are just eDisplayport, and there's a whole slew of laptop replacement panels out there that use the same setup. A nice 15" or 17" panel attached to a moderate sized case would be amazing for a LAN party.
Yeah the Edp just passes through. Circuit is a backlight controller only
I used a controller board from a company called AbuseMark in Japan and have had good results. I put an iPad display on the front of my Corsair 250D.
I also added a HDMI switcher and a Raspberry Pi 3 to the back of it so I could have RetroPie for a separate arcade box.
It's great at our LAN Parties when two people can play classic arcade games and I can still play my PC games without getting interrupted. My only issue is that the new micro HDMI controller board only works with iGPU. I also have the DisplayPort Board also which works great with my Graphics Card but I can't use my HDMI switcher with the DisplayPort Board.
Now that is cool. Great idea and the perfect case to make it look natural. Great idea with the Pi too.
@wendell About that power wire for the screen. Where does that go? To a standard plug or have you tapped into the ATX supply or something else?
Great upgrade to that little freaky box.
I think that Kabylake 7700K makes perfect sense for this purpose.
tapped the atx power supply, 12v
Like a boss! Thanks.
Now to find out if the NUC has a 12v I can borrow.
Really now. Guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet on Adafruit's shipping costs.
EDIT: Assuming I could find a method to breakout that 51-pin connector.
Instead of X99 why not just use the 8c/16t Ryzen chip when it finally drops? And possibly a Fury nano or something for the GPU, although perhaps you could do a reference or other short PCB 480, and do a custom loop inside that thing
Not sure how small tubing comes in, but there's some 1/4 inch stuff here
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/2123/ex-mis-03/14_ID_-_38_OD_PVC_Clear_Tubing.html?tl=g30c99s170
might need an SFX power supply though, Silver stone makes a 600W one
It's too bad the Ryzen APUs with HBM2 on package aren't around yet, wouldn't even need a GPU at that point