concept of chassi

Yup, looks really cool, it would be really sweet with a colourful chassi as most chassis today are either black, grey or silver. Not saying that there is anything wrong with that though, but a funky colourful alternative would be nice.

One small detail to think about when drawing air in from the bottom, dust! Please take that point into consideration..

Seems like you have put your modell of the CPU-cooler on the side. Rise it up with the copperbase to the CPU.

To me it looks like one section is for the harddrives and the other is for the rest of the components...? If so I think it's really a clever idea. You'd be able to fit a lot of hard disk drives in there, and that is sought after by many people.

Wow! I really think that's a great idea! I think a lot of hardcore gamers and people who use lots of hard drives (like people who want a file server and a gaming computer in one) would definitely buy this. I know I would!

Ooohhh, perdy colours, could you make one in red and black, pretty pretty please with sugar on top

I have a question too, not just flattering here. The handle, it looks quite narrow and it seems to be split in two, two very thin parts. I like the handle part, that is not my issue, but rather how it would feel on your hand. I dont know what kind of material you would use for your case, but a large computer case can easily reach 15 and above kilos in weight, which would put quite a strain on your hand when the handle is narrow and made up of two thinish strips of metal. Try it at school, get a box of some kind with a thin handle on, and load it up with say 15 kilos and lift it and handle it for a while.
I would rather have a broader handle without the gap in the middle.

I hope I made some sense here.

Hiya Debbie,

Glad I could help

Have you thought about what kind of material you are going to use to build your case, steel, aluminum or something else.
I think it would be quite cool to have the outer layer of the case in some other material than the usual stuff like steel, plastic or aluminum, even if the bearing structure of the case is made of steel or something. Some scratch resistant material that would feel soft to the touch, is there any such material?

Aluminum is cool, lightweight and strong. Could you cover the aluminum with some other material? like that corian perhaps
If you are going to go for "just" aluminum then I would suggest eloxate it as that would probably protect the aluminum as well as make it less fingerprint friendly.

Have you thought about sound dampening at all? high performance computers can be quite loud at times lots of fans and stuff creating a racket. The case I got now, Antec P182 has got a neat built in sound dampening feature, you can check it out here,

http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=MTgyNA==

and of course the review here at Sweclockers, in swedish though

http://www.sweclockers.com/artikel/6201-antec_p183

One more quick question, you aren't planning on adding alot of "bling" in the form of lights and stuff I hope

I would definitely use some kind of sound dampening on the part of the case that will hold the graphics card as the fan on those can be very loud. Ask Webhallen if they can let you listen to such a fan so you know how loud it can get.

Regarding cooling, you are right, the chamber with the graphics card and the processor needs the most cooling, how many fans and what size is difficult to say, this is one area where size does matter Dont go below 12 cm fans, which you have promised us earlier
In the other chamber with the optical drive, the hard drives and the power supply, you should have one fan sucking in air, but the power supply can handle blowing it out. It is good to keep the air moving, even though it will of course not get as warm as the air in the other chamber.
One way the air in this chamber could get heated up is by warmth radiating from the other chamber into this one, not really sure if that could be an issue, but if you do have a fan sucking in cool air then you will negate any such effect.

One thing, a minor thing, that will make a lot of users happy is if you were to skip the "built in fan guard to not hurt fingers on fans" that are popular with case manufacturers, see picture below,

http://www.sweclockers.com/imagebank/200806/Frontnaken_stor00...

As the intake fans should have dust filters in front of them there really is no need to have these fan guard things as they only create noise. It is one thing to have them on fans blowing air out of the case as there is no dust filter there. Maybe you could make it so that we could easily remove them from the fans blowing air out and skip them completely on the air intake fans.

I hope that made sense

Glad to help

But don't work during the weekend, you have to relax and enjoy Stockholm, go to some cool museum or something

Cool, really looking forward to seeing it.

When are you supposed to be done with this project?

Personally I prefer the glossy white with the black handle.

It doesn't look too steady with its current "feet", seeing as the CPU cooler, along with the PSU weigh quite much. Maybe it could be solved by adding another "foot"?

Edit: I don't know if you thought of it, but both the PSU and the CPU cooler are placed in the bottom they make the whole construction a lot steadier. But still I have the feeling it won't be steady enough with the current tripod arrangement.