Project: Overdefined

wotevajjjj

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Hey guys,

Welcome to Project: Overdefined

When I was at CeBIT, checking out all sorts of things. I saw a lot of awesome things, and got inspired to do something myself.

I'm going to build myself a completly new case, from scratch. I'm going to study design and product development next year so this is a good exercise I think.

anyway, I really like the design of the Ravens, FT02, Phantom, Z11. But The quality just isn't there. When I was at Lian-li, I was just mindblown by the level of detail and quality. So I decided to go full ally (really thick stuff) Just a normal atx or E-atx board, Front mounted psu, bottom intakes like the FT02, a lot of space behind the motherboard for drives and just make it really wide, long but also low.

Here's my first bit of sketches (I really, really can not draw on paper).

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I hope your eyes are still ok after seeing this
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next update coming soon when I start drawing on my pc
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Started work on the backplane and bottom

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Just a little update:

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Time for a bit of an update:

The lovely people over at Be Quiet have decided to sponsor this build! Be Quiet will provide the PSU and all the fans used in this build.

Below you can see a render I had to abort a few times before, hence the very late update. Terribly sorry for that.

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Look what the postman brought me:

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After opening it:

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Plenty of airbags there, here's a decent shot:

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Picture of the fans:

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As you can see, these are perfectly braided and come with screw and screw-less attachments. For some reasong you also get a molex to 12/7/5v converter, pretty useless as they make no noise at 12v, but maybe other people have better hearing
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Here's the psu:

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I wish they used the same braid as on the fans but they won't be visible in the case anyway. (They're not that bad eighter).

I overestimated the machines that can be used so I had to completly redo my work on the front and top
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All I have left to do now is:

finish off the front and top

Choose hinges

make doors

re-measure everything

break the drawing down into indivudual parts

make assembly from those parts

find donor case

have case made+painted

build hardware into it
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looking good ey ?

It was getting cold here, so I let the bulldozer render some more
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I just spend some time getting to know the software again, I have completly underestimated this xd

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So I decided to go to 3dcontentcentral.com and download myself a case so I already have a lot of the parts like backplane's etc.

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took the backplane of the tj07

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now i just have to cut some stuff out of it
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lol, I'm not at college yet, but I got a week of do whatever you want but be at school ahead of me, hoping i can do it then.
 
Hey guys, the project will be paused a few days until i know more from the possible sponsors, but work will continue at latest on monday :-)
 
looking great mate I do see some inherent possible design issues but will wait til you update more when ur able. I do really like the space behind the mobo I'm seeing so far wish more cases gave us more than 20-30mm
 
I just received an e-mail from the folks over at Be-Quiet! Next update will be when I receive the package
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Btw, go out and buy their stuff, it's awsome!

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