Recent content by Pendra

I'm probably missing something, but what is modular about this?

Yeah, like in every aspects of life, the right education can make things a lot easier. Bottom line is, not even Product Design students were born with the modding and building skill. They, too, had to spend time, money and effort to learn the tricks of the trade.

Front speakers, rear speakers, center+sub. The old 5.1 layout. However, nowadays, if you want some serious sound, you use optical. If not, stereo+mic is quite enough.

I always do a mockup from cardboard and/or plastic and practice on that. Sometimes I buy cheap 2nd hand cases for like $0-$5 and hack them up for practice, too. Only when I'm totally confident, I start the mod. Practically 90% preparation and 10% actual work on the real thing. Nobody started out...

For quick tests I usually use expanded PVC sheets. You can cut it with a simple razor blade, "drill" it with a screwdriver, bend it with some hot air (move it over a gas stove for some secs then bend it on a desk's edge). If designed well, the structure from this can be quite sturdy, too. For...

Building a proper case from scratch requires more skills, more tools and more money than modding an existing one. The more you go into modding, the more cases you disect, the more you learn about the notion of case design, the how and the whys. You can't really skip it. Well, you can, but then...

There you go, PC-05SX with ATX, double rads, mobo visible, GPU visible, front fan and plenty of space below the mobo/GPU to hold drives, cables etc. Stuff you don't want to be that visible. On the other hand, if you keep the PSU below the GPU, you will have plenty of space for the pump to be...

If you switch the PSU and the Mobo position in the 1st design and add a riser cable, you can show off the Mobo and the GPU too. SFF is more about cramming things and less about making it look clean, nice, tidy and spaceous. Also your own design contradicts the idea to show off the internals...

How about this? 29x29x18cm, 15,1L. GPU goes all the way through. Can house 5cm tall RAM, a double size and a single size radiator+fan (6cm total thickness), ATX PSU plus it has space for plenty of 2.5s and a slim DVD. Or this 34x23x19cm 14,8L. GPU goes all the way, 4cm RAM height and you...

Yep, 42x32x16 makes a whole lot more sense. Also, it results a case that is bigger than some ATX cases.

You will be able to place one double or two single radiators. They will be bolted behind the front cover, air coming in through the front cover. This will reduce the length of the GPU you can use. Probably to something ~25cm. With one hole on it, you will be able to use only 1 single size...

The current way of airport security is stupid to begin with. I can think at least ten different ways to bring deadly knives and projectile weapons to the board undetected and I'm not even interested in this stuff. I'm sure somebody, who does this for a "living", knows 500 other ways. As the...

This thought has occured to me. If they do, I will take my shoelace and the two telescopic metal bars from my trolley bag, tie them together and nun-chuk the heck out of them, Bruce Lee style :D. Anyway, I don't think they would have a problem because screwdrivers are illegal on planes and it is...

My case is 10.5 L and it holds a full size GPU (max 33cm long), an ATX PSU plus has room for 2 2.5 HDD, 1x12cm case fan or 2x8cm fans. ODD is something you don't need. The last time I saw a DVD was some years ago, during my last Win7 installation. In any case, I have an external DVD drive...

I made a higher quality model with more parts and better renders and updated the OP with them. Thank you for the feedback so far, they were very useful!