Wooden PC Design

I'm sorry but I never took any construction pictures of this, but this was the first one I could find. At this point I was using ROG motherboards and had always had a fascination with seeing what the computer was doing. There are always so many diagnostics on the motherboard that the interested of us can ascertain at a glance if a glitch is hardware or software.

I had originally tried to commission a woodworker to build me a desk and even though I paid a £1000 deposit, they couldn't do what I wanted. So I got a refund and tried myself.

This desk was £200 from Argos and I removed the internals from the left hand side and created my own mount. The PSU as you can see is actually in the left speaker... Bizarre huh! It was an external GPU with a display that showed temperature and voltages etc. I remounted the midrange speaker to the right as I sat to that side and I couldn't tell the directional difference in sound. I had at that point a 1000W digital Yamaha Amp and a seven speaker system comprised of a five speaker Sony system and two Pioneer speakers. It sounded awesome.

This shot shows a rather large Asus air cooler and the SLI configuration. Also two green exhaust fans on the side and there was a vent on the back also.

The Drives were mounted in a separate compartment to the back at the base. I had constructed an elasticated rope structure within it that allowed the disks to be mounted vertically and hot air was vented by a fan I had placed in the lid of the enclosure. It was virtually silent in operation as the desk was quite thick.

I had made a lockable access panel at the front and the main access was to the rear and to the motherboard, under the glass. In the centre of the desk was a door I'd fashioned to give access to the electrics.

In my new home and gone to dual screens. I think at this point because of moving and the hassle I'd had in disassembling it, I was looking for a different solution. It was very heavy as the structure I'd built inside was perhaps overly complex.

Although I know woodworkers now, I didn't then and as such I would have designed it better. It is perhaps a shame that there are no pictures of the internal structure as it was quite good.

It was basically though a cabinet with the motherboard recessed into it. below that was a small compartment that housed all the wiring and the DVD drives which you can see to the bottom left of the middle draw.

Beneath that was two compartments. The front was secret storage and to the rear - the HDD compartment. As stated before the compartment had exhaust fans as I had several drives which gernerated a lot of heat.