Hi all,
After seeing the Antec Skeleton and the HSPC bench station i had planned to make my own DIY station. Googling a bit i found Navig's design from ocforums and it looked very simple and practical, not to mention easy to make
So after nearly one month, plenty of moolah spent on new tools and paint smudged hands its finally ready :hap2:
Material used was 20mm plywood, 1.5" square aluminium pipe, 1.5"/20mm aluminium angle, ss self tapping screws
The beginning, cutting the 20mm ply
First brief assembly, just to check everything was ok
20mm M3 standoff's
custom made control panel in alu angle. Push-to-On buttons for Power On and Reset, 10mm bigass leds, blue for Power and green for HDD, 2 USB ports
primer coats for the wood and the metal parts
first coat of paint (total three coats), paint used was satin finish dulux
final assembly
pcw fan controller, 12w per channel, good enough for 2 x 120mm high cfm fans per channel. this will be upgraded later to a better quality Sunbeam
psu mount
dvdrw mount rails
in action
i :love: case badges
hdd cage can accommodate 6 drives
another two USB ports on the left side
current test config on this station is -
Core i7 920/ Xeon W3570
Gigabyte EX58 UD3R, EVGA Classified X58 E760
Crucial/A-Data DDR3
3 x 500GB, 320GB, 160 Seagate Sata HDD's and a single 80GB IDE hdd
After seeing the Antec Skeleton and the HSPC bench station i had planned to make my own DIY station. Googling a bit i found Navig's design from ocforums and it looked very simple and practical, not to mention easy to make
So after nearly one month, plenty of moolah spent on new tools and paint smudged hands its finally ready :hap2:
Material used was 20mm plywood, 1.5" square aluminium pipe, 1.5"/20mm aluminium angle, ss self tapping screws
The beginning, cutting the 20mm ply
First brief assembly, just to check everything was ok
20mm M3 standoff's
custom made control panel in alu angle. Push-to-On buttons for Power On and Reset, 10mm bigass leds, blue for Power and green for HDD, 2 USB ports
primer coats for the wood and the metal parts
first coat of paint (total three coats), paint used was satin finish dulux
final assembly
pcw fan controller, 12w per channel, good enough for 2 x 120mm high cfm fans per channel. this will be upgraded later to a better quality Sunbeam
psu mount
dvdrw mount rails
in action
i :love: case badges
hdd cage can accommodate 6 drives
another two USB ports on the left side
current test config on this station is -
Core i7 920/ Xeon W3570
Gigabyte EX58 UD3R, EVGA Classified X58 E760
Crucial/A-Data DDR3
3 x 500GB, 320GB, 160 Seagate Sata HDD's and a single 80GB IDE hdd