Cherry wood Case with water cooling

[Tale Gunner]

This is the first time I have ever kept a work log on one of my projects. I am building a wood case from cherry. I have a complete wood shop in my Garage.
I started this project in cad trying to layout and work out all the bugs with my design.

On the side I am going to use plexiglass to lay in a rabbet cut.

From there the bottom will be the pump housing.

On the water cooling I made a 1:1 file to layout on the plywood bottom.

The actual plywood with the template looks like this.

From there I began to layout the water cooling rig.



I will continue to update this worklog as I build this unit.

[Tale Gunner]

The cooling layout is pretty cool I think. Here is the cad file for the layout.

At this time I am not going to cool the video cards ... YET!
I might be a nut but here are all the componets in cad file that I drew out.

The fillport that I will be using will run up the side of the case and be hidden
by the 5.25 inch card cage.
The card cage (salvaged from a old case) will be inlaid to the front of the
case.

I hope everything goes as well as the drawings.

[Tale Gunner]

Today I finished the top and bottom boards for the pump housing.
Now that I cut these boards I finished mounting the components and making sure the layout will work.

That's a Ultra 600 watt power supply that I will be using for cooling only(update I used this PS for another build for my son. Since it was not necessary that I have more than 100 watts for this unit I put an old 350 watt PS in its place). That includes the fans, water pump and the TEC chip to cool the water reservoir. I wanted to see if this would assist the cooling process and I needed 234 watts for powering the chip.
The secondary power supply will be remotely turned on by the primary power supply using a 12vdc relay that will close the power on signal and return the power good signal from the second power supply latching it on.

If you don't have any idea where these signals are, the Grey wire is power good and the green wire is power on.

I built the pump house with the water pump first to locate the radiator and how its going to mount to the side wall with the grills that came with the fans.

[Tale Gunner]

Did ever see the commercial with the guy telling another neighbor that he wasn't allowed to get any more tools until his wife got her dining room set? When the neighbor asked where was the dining room set, he replied you're standing on it. It was a stack of lumber! Well here is my new case in the raw kinda!

All of this wood came from a guy who just started his lumber mill and didn't want this cherry! Lucky me...

[Crimson Sky]

Good luck with your project, it looks ambitious...! and welcome to TBCS. Now kill that annoying sig

[progbuddy]

Wow. Those are some detailed diagrams. Lmao @ your sig. Its friggin' huge.

[Tale Gunner]

Originally Posted by Crimson Sky

Good luck with your project, it looks ambitious...! and welcome to TBCS. Now kill that annoying sig

Ahh you were just jealous (LOL):p Ok I dropped it but thats whats going into my case.

[Tale Gunner]

The equipment I will be using is a list a mile long

Delta contractor saw tricked out including dual cast iron table wings
DeWalt Planer with digital readout for thickness
General joiner
Jet 14" Band Saw with Kreg fence
Several different routers
More router bits then I ever wanted to list
7518 Porter Cable 3.25 horse power router on a lift
Delta Drill press
DeWalt Scroll saw with stand

I will be making a raised panel door for the computer case. This presented a major problem in that the DVD recorders stick out. I came up with a plan to create a extension of the case that the door will shut against and not hit the DVD recorders.

This will be fun for me because I am doing both of my hobbies together. I work in the medical field as an engineer and have a great love for computers. I have built about 200 for friends and family.

[NocturnaL]

Nice plans man. Looks like you have this thing all planned out nicely. Hope it turns out as you plan

[SgtM]

Those plans look good man. Good luck with the project