Hello guys!
It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted this project, in that time I made clear that I want your feedback to know what are your wishes and how this case can fulfill those.
Every comment was taken into consideration and design changes have been made. Yes, I listen and will keep doing so.
Just to make things pretty clear, this case has gone through 384 iterations, on the last week alone 32 iterations have been done on your feedback.
Having said that what are the changes that made to the final stage?
Size has increased a bit, now its 370mm of height instead of 350mm.
This has been done to accommodate larger feet. As one of the design goals to make this case compatible with enthusiast level hardware and with decent temps to boot, that change was made to give 30mm of intake to all the fans in the case. The top fans already had the necessary height, now the bottom fans have them too.
Aside that I have also implemented a mounting solution for the HDPLEX HiFi 300W DC-ATX! One of the reasons that there is still 4 mounting points for the fans is basically that, to leave space for a DC DC solution.
Those were the 2 major changes that I made to the case due to your feedback, there were some to strengthen the structure and some for the fit and finish to be as exquisite as possible.
So I bring you some pictures of the changes!
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Now, the whole idea is to make this case happen.
For that I’m going to show you how is the planning for this project.
January 15th, 2015 – Started the design of the case.
April 22nd, 2017 – Launch of the case in forums, feedback stage, contact suppliers.
May 2nd, 2017 – Show the changes, Feedback 2nd round, order parts, contact suppliers, case prototype.
May 15th, 2017 – Show the changes, contact Suppliers.
This is a very rough sketch on what the time schedule that I’m working on, and the idea is to propel this case as fast as I can.
The first prototype is going to be made of acrylic and wood, this is to explore on the visual of acrylic, LEDs and some other bling orientated features. I have noticed that some would like transparent windows on some cases that I consider to be of a more somber design, I thought why not on this one?
So if anyone wants, I can try to acquire some acrylic panels to showcase the beautiful components that we have.
This prototype should be ready be the end of this week or the mid of the next one. The whole idea is to test the fitments of the parts and how well the cooling system works, because I said before and will say it again, I want you to put the highest performing parts here and not be saddled by very limited CPU coolers, or to avoid some more power hungry cards.
Well, that means I have to test some parts that are actually going to push the envelop, which means the test system will be:
CPU: Ryzen R5 1600 (chose this one specifically for the cooler)
GPU: GTX 970 (for now, this may change in the future, but it would be basically to test the TDP)
PSU: Corsair SF450
RAM: 32GB
Thanks everyone that has commented so far and has shown interest in this project. Your feedback is truly important here! Drop a comment! Send a like! I’m all ears here!
