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Project: Eutanasia
Small Aluminum Case with Water Cooling
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Intro
After getting tired with my old Antec Sonata II case, I really wanted
to build something original for myself. The basic guidelines for the case
were simple. As this case was going to be built to be used at Lan-parties,
the case should be small, simple, durable, upgradeable and it still should
be able to house a powerful system. Wanting to keep the case as
upgradeable as possible I wanted it to be able to house ATX-sized
components. In addition I wanted to honor my old cs-clan in the design in
some way.
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Eutanasia
Planning
The whole design-process of the case began in the end of 2006. Back
then I started thinking about a layout for the case, that would allow me
to accomplish my goals. After playing around with some layouts I realized
that, water-cooling was the way to go on this project. Water-cooling just
gave me some possibilities that allowed me to make the case even smaller.
After getting the basic layout done, I really just designed a case around
it.
As I started to design this case, my setup consisted of a DFI's
LANParty-series motherboard, an Opteron 170 cpu, 2 GB of OCZ memory and a
Radeon X1950XTX. This setup would be moved to its new home as soon as it
was finished.
The layout can be seen here. The power supply rests over the CPU area
leaving just enough room to route the tubes to the CPU block. Keeping
upgradability in mind I wanted to leave enough room for future upgrades, I
chose to leave enough room in the case for two 8800 GTXs. That way I would
be able to fit just about any graphics cards in the case.
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