Today I ‘am proud to introduce you to my first long time project!
ForewordSome months I’m planning and fiddle in the project. After the purchase of my new couch i searched a solution for removing my server, which I used as a streaming/multimedia pc for my TV, away off my TV cabinet. I haven’t purchased a table for my living room until yet. So there was my idea. There are Pcs build in computer tables. Why not a water-cooled PC in a table for my living room!? With the taught to remove the big pc before the television, the first planning was done.
After my first drawing in Sketchup with real dimensions, I taught my dad (carpenter) carefully, that he would have soon not much time for others. For that you have to know that he is an expert with bigger wooden projects like tables and beds… After a great round of discussing and an always friendly willingness of my dad for supporting me with my mad ideas, we are able to start. He is building the table with the recesses and I would do like always the details like electronics, hardware and the mounts. At this point the hardware and electronics was been ordered.
I found out that i need much patience and stamina for this project. But this work was a welcome distraction to my study time and my job.
After some weeks of building on the ground plate I decided to release this project online. With that i wrote my first lines for my long time project. I hope you to arouse enthusiasm for my mad ideas and wish you some fun now!
The real ideaNow I have the task to insert my complete server into a custom table and this very clean. For that I had some ideas which I could not all implement until yet. Since there was some drawing with right dimensions I could successfully install all components of my water-cooled PC into my table. Resolutions for air circulation and water on the table were found really fast. Later in the worklog I will introduce you into the whole electronics and lightning settings which were to extensively at this point.
A great idea with Shelter-glass I must unfortunately drop. Shelter-glass is electrically adjustably. This glass could be nearly transparent or white. It was planned as glass plate for this table. If the pc were out the glass is non-transparent and so the table looks very normal. If you start the pc the glass should turn to transparent that you could look into the hardware parts. But the extremely heavy price of this glass let drop my idea!
Some SpecsThe Hardware of this project is a trivial matter in comparison to my big pc. In this project its important to build a quiet multimedia computer with some fine look and with much adjustable electronics and lightning. For that I used the hardware from my old server.
Mainboard: EVGA Z68 SLI
Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K
Ram: 4x 4GB G.SkiLL DDR3 1333MhZ
Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 560 Ti Ds
Speicher: 120GB SSD System / Quickbay with some TB of HDDs for pictures and films
ODD: Samsung Blu-Ray Rom
PSU: EVGA 750 Watt P2
Later were ordered countless parts for the water-cooling, for the controlling of the water-cooling, for the lightning and especially for the electronic - For designing the project nice and clean.
I hope to woken up some interest for someone. In some days I start with the first postings.