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You could consider laser cutting an acrylic side panel with your own fan cutout. I did that with my axp90 and Dan case A4 (before I sold it). I'm still using the axp90 with a 120mm fan. Another option would be to use some standoffs on the side panel (not sure if that's actually possible)

Hi, I used 2mm aluminium. It's stiff enough for a case but it bends easily! I made that mistake by pushing too hard while cutting off one of the design bridges. So as long as everything is connected well enough I think it's fine. But if I did it again I would maybe consider stainless steel

Great job - looks awesome

If you check the builds section of the forum there is someone who made their own by cutting metal: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/8-4l-sfx-custom-built-case.13991/ Plus myself and a few others have laser cut metal (nothing with bends though)...

Correct, they're called design bridges. Cutting a single it as a single piece is much cheaper than sending all parts separated. When I cut the acryic its not needed, they just cut it however it fits on their sheet size.

Exactly, thats what I was confused about, I had always imagined it would be hundreds of Euros or not possible in small quantities!

This is actually really funny. I designed and built a similar laser cut case and posted within a few minutes of you, but mine is waiting for admin approval for some reason. Anyway good job! I think the most important thing is you built it to your own requirements and got exactly what you want

Hi everyone. I always wanted to make my own case but thought the cost would be much too high so I kind of sidelined the idea. Then I saw the post a couple of months by Carsten which made the idea much more possible and not so expensive (thanks again for the idea mate!) Unfortunately my...

I also had some 2mm Alu cut that arrived a week ago. I dont have the burning that you show. Although a coupole of the holes were not perfect, but I could deal with that (i just drilled some out a little bit :) )

I like the designs you do mate, good job!

I also needed to order this cable for my own build, since a spare cable I had was too large (deep) I ordered the one scatterforce mentioned from superbuy last week plus this one: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=592924116036 My googling said that 16AWG was good for up to 1000W, but would be...

Thanks for the reply. Not at all, I'm more familiar with SFX supplies. But I did some googling and now I understand, basically there is a second piece as you said. Cool project though, good luck with it

Forgive the ignorant question, but does this still need an external brick? As for comments, would it be better to have a slim 80mm fan on the larger side and not the tiny 40mm fans? That would mean better airflow for less noise. Or possibly even 60mm

Hi mate that's really nice that you did this! I mainly wanted it to check the dimensions and spacing of the pcie and mb holes relative to each other, but ended up making it myself from some other references. Out of curiosity how long did delivery of the sheetmetal take? I ordered on the 31st...

Nice testing. Did you consider removing the fan and shroud from the gpu and using some slim fans (noctua a12x15 or a9x14)? Your results make sense, because the GPU is always intake. But if you could reverse the fan direciton you could test a more even air pressure setup where the gpu isnt...