I've been thinking about a potential case design and about trying to bring it to life. After seeing this build by Jeffrey Friesen on youtube, I wanted to make my own version with a full size GPU.
That build used a Dynatron a46 1u server cooler and two rtx a2000 blower fans as the cpu cooler at only 27mm, making the total case thickness 46.1mm, when most console cases are at least 50mm+. This got me thinking, the case I have right now, a s35 from taobao, wastes a lot of space with room for a 2.5 slot card, and wastes space over the 40mm flex ATX power supply. Designing a case around this cooler and a 2 slot card could get the total volume down a lot.
I recreated the cooler design in that video and did some testing with my 9800x3d first to see if the a46 could cool my cpu with an undervolt, and while it did thermal throttle in r23, in games I saw closer to 70C using some shitty paste. With liquid metal and (maybe) a delid it should be more than enough. (I'm working on a real comparison, sorry about not having proper numbers right now)
Janky Jeffrey Friesen's a46 based cooler:
On a side note, I plan on doing a full comparison of 27-37mm coolers as I haven't seen much that is up to date. I should be getting in a id-cooling is-30i and is-37xt, and I plan on testing those vs the a46 blower design, the thermalright axp90-36, the dynatron u8, and this cooler, which is a noctua l9i heatsink with mounting brackets to rotate the fins 90 degrees.
The case I want to make uses the a46 or a simmilar cooler and has GPU spacing for a blower GPU as they are pretty standardized in sizing. I've seen blower rtx 4090 cards and so this case format should be the smallest possible rtx 4090 + 9800x3d pc, even if a blower 4090 will be super loud. I also messaged some of the taobao sellers and they seem to think a blower 5080 will eventually be a thing, so I think the build would probably use that or a 4080 super blower.
here's the layout:
the dimentions of the case would be 279 x 285.5 x 46.1mm, which is 3.67L. If I can get the thickness down to 45mm, it would be 3.58L which would make this the the smallest pc with these specs by a lot.
I have access to very cheap aluminum stock and CNC machines at my college so this will hopefully become a case. If a CNCed case doesn't work out I am thinking sheet metal could also work, although I think that would increase the size by a bit.
What do you guys think? I haven't designed a case before but I haven't seen anything else like this and would love to shave 1.5L off my PC, lol.
That build used a Dynatron a46 1u server cooler and two rtx a2000 blower fans as the cpu cooler at only 27mm, making the total case thickness 46.1mm, when most console cases are at least 50mm+. This got me thinking, the case I have right now, a s35 from taobao, wastes a lot of space with room for a 2.5 slot card, and wastes space over the 40mm flex ATX power supply. Designing a case around this cooler and a 2 slot card could get the total volume down a lot.
I recreated the cooler design in that video and did some testing with my 9800x3d first to see if the a46 could cool my cpu with an undervolt, and while it did thermal throttle in r23, in games I saw closer to 70C using some shitty paste. With liquid metal and (maybe) a delid it should be more than enough. (I'm working on a real comparison, sorry about not having proper numbers right now)
Janky Jeffrey Friesen's a46 based cooler:
On a side note, I plan on doing a full comparison of 27-37mm coolers as I haven't seen much that is up to date. I should be getting in a id-cooling is-30i and is-37xt, and I plan on testing those vs the a46 blower design, the thermalright axp90-36, the dynatron u8, and this cooler, which is a noctua l9i heatsink with mounting brackets to rotate the fins 90 degrees.
The case I want to make uses the a46 or a simmilar cooler and has GPU spacing for a blower GPU as they are pretty standardized in sizing. I've seen blower rtx 4090 cards and so this case format should be the smallest possible rtx 4090 + 9800x3d pc, even if a blower 4090 will be super loud. I also messaged some of the taobao sellers and they seem to think a blower 5080 will eventually be a thing, so I think the build would probably use that or a 4080 super blower.
here's the layout:
the dimentions of the case would be 279 x 285.5 x 46.1mm, which is 3.67L. If I can get the thickness down to 45mm, it would be 3.58L which would make this the the smallest pc with these specs by a lot.
I have access to very cheap aluminum stock and CNC machines at my college so this will hopefully become a case. If a CNCed case doesn't work out I am thinking sheet metal could also work, although I think that would increase the size by a bit.
What do you guys think? I haven't designed a case before but I haven't seen anything else like this and would love to shave 1.5L off my PC, lol.
