Final Size: 202mm width, 714mm height, 397mm depth.
Final Weight: about 12KG include hardware.
Final Damage: I don't want to know... way over MYR600...

The purpose of this build is to make a simple minimalist tower, with emphasis of - height.
And also dealt with dust issue, as previously been using open-air setup for years.
Obviously, I'm not making a disco, or showroom sculpture in my room.

Planning of the build is done as detail as possible in Sketchup, and acrylic panel drawing is sent for laser cutting.
All materials - the aluminum V-slot and it's accessories, as well as laser matte black cut acrylic, are ordered through Taobao China.



Shipment:



The idea of the build is to have mobo flipped 90°, for the purpose of exhausting air up, as well as reducing PCIe GPU weight stress (4 slots thick GPU cooler...).
All I/O are extended to the bottom of the case (except one USB3 for my LTE modem), to ensure no cable dangling down from above like a regular tower did.
The width & depth of the tower is at minimal possible allowed by my existing hardware.
Reusing aluminum casing parts from old Lian-Li T60B test-bench, which includes mobo panel, PSU bracket & HDD cage.

Another important point of this build is, NOT having any screw to secure the panels.
The method is to uses the V-slot cover stripe as clip, adhering it with the acrylic panels with glue.
The aluminum slots also conveniently act as cable channel.





Almost done... got a few more things to fix. Fabricator also forgot the front I/O acrylic panel, or dropped it.
Hardware? Noob hardware nothing fancy to talk about.

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What I learnt from this build?

1, think of your cost estimation. Then double that.
2, design acrylic panels with matching "teeth" with each other, to ensure accurate and easy installation & absolute accurate alignment.
3, don't visit PC store for parts, adapter, or cables. Either they don't have, or hella more expensive than super market.

This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Dec 11 2017, 06:42 PM

nice bro, can show closely how you mount the panel to the frame?

nice. very smart bro.

i also wanted to do something like this but no idea before.

not bad.
look decent.
it will looks better if you can sort the psu cable.