In previous > THE RIG < post i wrote about my idea and gave you a scheme to understand what i was thinking about. Time for a step forward - cardboard prototype!
This time i needed to measure everything and cut it out from cardboard. By making a main frame i understood, that first idea about parts placing is obviously bad. First of all - MoBo outputs and PSU connectors has to be on the same side (for convenience). Second - the PSU has to be mounted vertically so the main frame would get it's height from. Last of all - the drives (5,25'' and 3,5'') gonna be above MoBo mounted parallell to the MoBo, next to each other.
My first cardboard prototype of a frame can be seen on pictures below (motherboard and PSU inside to see the size of build):
Frame is build the way i can put inside full ATX MoBo, the seen on picture is my DTX (208 x 244 mm) sized MSI from WinXP Set. There is a slight probability of changing width, because of new PSU position (i'd like to shorten it a bit).
In then next part i'm gonna make a full cardboard rig to see how the disks would fit inside. Stay tuned!
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