Concept Thin mITX office nettop with dedicated GPU

[McSpain]

Hi folks,
after I mentioned in the General channel already that I am working on a thin mITX project, I would like to present my current state of project development to you here.
The goal is to design a compact computer for daily browsing, office work and simple gaming applications that can be easily transported. You can see some renders of the first concepts below:


The components for the first iteration were:

• MoBo: Gigabyte MDQ17AI
• CPU: i5 7600
• GPU: inno3D GTX 1050Ti single slot edition
• PSU: PM301-13-2A
• ODD, HDD, SSD etc.

Due to budgeting-reasons (the build is actually for my brother), I'm now optimising the build for a second iteration:

• MoBo: ASRock H110TM
• CPU: i3 7300T
• GPU: MSI GT 1030 2G LP OC
• PSU: HDPlex 160
• ODD, HDD, SSD etc.

Stay tuned for updates

 

[cleveland]

This kind of project always catches my eyes and heart.

I'll be following your steps closely, @McSpain. Cheers!

 

[CC Ricers]

Looks nice. Is it going to be made of aluminum? I like how the PSU is all internal too.

I've made a similar case to fit a discrete GPU with thin mITX. Check my signature if you want ideas.

 

[rfarmer]

I love the design, very cool.

 

[McSpain]

Looks nice. Is it going to be made of aluminum? I like how the PSU is all internal too.

Yes, I have access to a small CNC mill through a club, I'm a member of. I'm planning to use EN AW 5754 H22 for an optimum of machining, anodizing, and bending. Since I don't have professional tools for bending, though, I'm reducing the strength of the front/bottom plate from 4mm to 2mm, but leave some features sticking out at 4mm.

For those of you wondering, where the ODD is:
I took inspiration from the murderbox 2 and hid it in one of the vertical slits in the front.

 

[McSpain]

Update time:


The volume of the case is now down to 3.8l
It would also support a full width gpu (not only low profile one as pictured), but there are not really any of these on the market ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've already done some experiments on metal bending and resorted to laser-cutting for higher precision of some parts.