Small wooden PC for my mother ;)

[predue]

Not so long ago I was building a tiny PC for my mother. I thought it would be nice if i could fit the whole thing inside a wooden case . Of course self-made.

Features:

Intel Pentium 4 (3,2Ghz)
2 GB DDR-Ram
160GB 2,5" IDE HDD
GeForce 6600GT 128MB
160 Watt Power Unit
Windows XP Pro
NO Discdrive!
(not really good but good enough for my mother )

But pictures say more than all of these specs :

First of all: I already built one a year ago... So this is the comparison of them:

(I know... a bit blurry... cant help it though )

The case is about 11 inches long, 10,2 inches wide and 3,93 inches thick. (28x26x10cm)

So the wood is cut into more or less even pieces... Going on with the gluing

The Second Wall

With an included Fan. Here goes the air into the case.

Millimeter for millimeter

It's really cramped in here, is it?

Some testing... everything went smoothly.

The Backside:

And this is the way of the air through the pc... more or less:

One video for you for a change:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADljFz58Lpw

The last 'wall' for the pc! Its coming to an end.

And the final pictures:

I tested the pc in the closed case for several hours while running various stress-tests. No overheating or else. Everything works like a charm.

I hope you like my work so far. Sorry for the bad picture quality...
Thanks for watching

 

[bud]

Predue! It's good to see you back man.

That wooden case looks real nice.

You should restart your GCP project now that you can use a wiikey.

 

[predue]

I am also really happy to see you guys again! And most of all to see your impressive portables O.O!
I really would like to start a new project again... (my old project is around the middle of nowhere xD) but I have some money issues... So I can't spent too much money on portabelizing (is that written correctly??)
But I will definitly do something in the near future!

Thank you for the welcome

 

[ttsgeb]

Very nice. It was looking kinda scary for a moment there on the "It's really cramped" pic, but then it cleaned up rather well. I really want to see the closed up pic of this.

 

[DK]

When I get around to building a PC, I'll probably knock up a wooden case like this:

 

[bentendo64]

Did you make the extender for the AGP slot yourself?

 

[predue]

It is an extender for a pci-e slot... But I didn't make it myself, I bought it on ebay. Its called riser or something like this.
Not that i couldn't do it by myself

 

[predue]

Update: The pictures of the finished project are online! You can find them at the end of my first post
I hope you like them!

 

[brunoip]

Awesome, are you going to paint it?

 

[predue]

No, because I already gave it to my mom
Otherwise I would paint it in... red I think (I would really like to...)