PC Project: Wonder Woman (5-videos)

Plan: Wall-mounted Gaming PC with Silence in mind. Trying to make a floating effect, components and cables behind won’t be visible and everything is nicely routed on the front side. Base of this PC is 60x40x(cm) acrylic piece.

Specs:

• CPU: 8600k delidded                                                     
• MOBO: ROG STRIX Z370-I                                
• GPU: EVGA FTW GTX 1080                             
• PSU: EVGA R3 1000W                                    
• SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB m.2           
• Water, blocks, fittings

After quick planning I was ready to tackle the first step, to make cutouts for all the cables and water-cooling. For 24-pin cable that would be 24 holes, 3.5mm each inside of a 52mm X 12mm rectangle). I 3D printed guides for drill and that worked quite nicely!

I also chose to delid the CPU and add liquid metal inside for better temperatures.

Next up was to figure out how to make fans a little more flush with the build. Started by tearing Corsair SP120 for research purposes. Designed and printed a prototype frame for the fan that would embed the fan into the acrylic piece. Making holes for fans was a little more difficult as those require roughly 114mm holes, managed to do those without breaking too much!

Making all the pass-throughs for tubes was also very precise, but doable!

PSU is mounted by making precise cutout and just putting PSU through it. Simple and works.

I had to add one inlet to the top of the reservoir, which worked nicely with an 11.8mm drill bit and G1/4“ thread tap.

After everything was on the wall I quite quickly chose to paint acrylic with mat black.

Update 2023: EVGA FTW GTX1080 has given up with flame ‘n smoke. Hopefully Ill find replacement or maybe upgrade. For now, GTX750 is hanging mid-air doing GPUs duty on the wall.