I really like the style kinda reminds me of the Apple bin macs :D The only thing I dont like is the power button on the bottom, maybe it would be nice to have it on the side somewhere
After all that work to make a really nice desktop computer, you should consider a dust prevention cloth for the base.. As your probably aware, electronics are dust magnet and you may have designed an very expensive vacuum cleaner..
Quick question sir! What type of material did you use on the 3d printer to print this case? I’m concerned concerning the heat that will come from the computer parts possibly melting the material
Ive been kinda thinking about making a case myself, but i dont know what the bare minimum requirements of a case is. As in what are the parts that are technically need to make something that could run and then build on that. This is such a simple design that i think showes that pretty well although id love to hear if u have any pointers for what the basic requirements are for them so i can try to play with them and expand on that
Dust filter option would be nice to have. If it is a negative pressure system with a top fan pulling air out, than a slide out tray on the bottom or some pins to mount the filtration mesh would work well.
It looks like you have enough room for a 140mm fan instead of your 120... And it would be nice to have the on-switch on top, as well as the other i/o like the mic/headphones, usb aso 👍
This is the type of product that I have been waiting for. I currently am driving across country with my custom built desktop. That is absolutely massive and taking up a lot of space. Aside from raspberry pi projects, i have not seen anything that resembles this. Hopefully your modifications will come soon so that I may purchase the products in order to build it. Because I am a complete noob when it comes down to building a custom computer
I'm a gamer (and slack 3D printerer) so in terms of brute power this will not work for me considering the size of modern GPU's, however, I have to say for a 'daily driver' I love this design, very slick. Looking forward to the tweaks you make, great project and I appreciate your work for the community.
Keeping in mind the mechanics of 3D printers, cylindrical shape of the print makes a lot of sense. For a larger motherboards the diameter can be increased for a 140mm fan, perhaps.
It's interesting, but after I built an SFF pc with desktop parts support (in ITX format of course) with both CPU+GPU water-cooling with 360 radiator in 12.5L case and at 6kg total weight ... I have to say that such big (and cylindrical) case for a pc without discreet GPU and with the weak intel bundled cpu cooler is full of compromises. Of course in many cases building a mini-pc isn't about mobility, but just for a WOW factor, which in this case is accomplished - cylindrical capsule case looks nice indeed. The main problem I have is the inefficient use of volume, especially compared to the lack of power in this pc. One of the main troubles when building a mini pc is the fact that if it's mid-level components and/or with restricted cooling it's easier to find decent mid-range laptop - you get something more convenient and perhaps more powerful at much smaller factor. So for me building a SFF PC is always the challenge to build full PC potentially with most powerful parts (though rtx4080 & rtx4090 make that rather difficult) in the smallest space possible but still with the best cooling possible (for that volume & shape). Given that you can't escape the restrictions of the components (like the ITX MoBo or SFX PSU, and GPUs vary in some sizes from mini to full) you might want to play with different combinations of these parts in order to minimize volume & optimize cooling. The in the general case best cooling doesn't have to be liquid of course - actually it's much better value to do traditional air-cooling, but when space is restricted and you can't rely on proper air flow it becomes easier to do a water-loop. Fortunately cooling designs are more flexible as there's much higher variety in both fans & radiator sizes. I've done with thin 360rad on top (with 3 25mm thick fans of course), and 3 thin 15mm fans on bottom, as the fans & rad are connected by 1010 v-slot aluminium extrusion beams. But you can go with only 240 radiator if you're confident it's enough for your use case, or 2x240 on top & bottom or 1x280 (a 280mm /140mm wide/ has almost the same surface as a 360 /120mm wide/), or you can make it more like a tower with 2x140mm fan+rad on top and bottom. Some manufacturers have really great variety in radiator sizes, which is great! One think that not an option (unless you're willing to risk it with cheap chinese components) is aluminium loop. That's what I did in order to save a lot of weight (as copper/brass weight much more), but when I designed & built it EK has a custom loop components for fully aluminium loop (you shouldn't mix alu & copper/brass in the same loop, but either is fine if you don't mix them). When I built it I used the most powerful available parts i9-9900K & rtx2080ti, and CPU-wise I can still upgrade it to the most powerful CPUs today without risk in power or cooling, but the GPUs have really gone off the rails ... it's no problem to find 750-800W SFX PSU which is plenty powerful for 250-300W GPU (& ~250W CPU), but with GPU going about 400W and over you'll not only need more powerful PSU, but also a way to dissipate that heat with better cooling. So for example in my plans to upgrade the components of my SFF pc I don't think I'll go with rtx3080/3090 ... at least not inside the same case. 3d-printing allows great flexibility when building custom shape cases, especially if combined with 1010 v-slot alu extrusion beams (which I find ideal), but also I'm using QDC (Quick Disconnect Coupling) for the water tubes (because I don't have space for reservoir inside the case and I'm attaching thru QDC an external one when filling/maintaining the loop). But if you're designing the case yourself you can make it modular - ie, you can make smaller case without GPU (only the integrated GPU inside the CPU), but have the PCI-E riser cable and GPU power cables prepared to be connected to a GPU that can be housed in its own case like an eGPU, but if you use the main pc power & PCI-E bus then you won't have bottleneck from thunderbolt interface (or limitations from a proprietory one) and won't need 2nd PSU only for the GPU. Also with QDC you can bundle a 2nd radiator+fans with the GPU, so that when you don't need it you can detach it and carry the CPU only case (with the integrated GPU) for example for dev-pc or media-consumption pc - ie cases when you don't need powerful GPU. Possibilities are great! But one thing I strongly recommend when designing a SFF pc is to use some kind of 3d prototyping tool. I used Sketchup, and while rather simplistic it worked fine, though for the 3d printed parts you might want to use appropriate software (I don't have 3d printed parts in the ver.1 of my pc and had to deal with great challenges with existing parts that would be trivial with custom 3d-printed parts). One hint for optimizing volume is that the closer to the ideal** shape you are the most efficient use of the volume you'll likely have. ** The ideal shape is sphere of course, but in PC we have typically rectangular parts, so the ideal shape for PC would be rectangular and the closer to a Cube you can design it the better.
Why upgrade to hero me 5 and not hero me 6? I'm in the process of doing it and would do with the 6 version, but i'm very new so i don't know why choose 5 over 6
The reason why i make my cases cylindrical is due to fans, in the bottom for maximum cooling and still silent. A tubular shape gives the best design but May require a different cooler
@@Crosslink3D I found out what theyre called, SFX PSUs. i didnt even know about Nano PSUs till this video. Did you ever do a follow up on this with the changes you mentioned? I cant seem to find it
I am working on some custom designs for my homelab and was wondering if you could share with me the files. If you don’t want them posted I won’t post my files, I will be heavily changing them for a different form factor just wanted to use this as a reference if possible.
Beautiful piece of work, my sons, both engineers are very interested in these projects, mini computers. Our motto " Anything With Tools " ha ha. I hope your excellent community has a lot of interest to run with this project. Half the fun here is the comments ! Thanks for posting ! Slava Ukraine !!
I love the cylinder style PCs. Apple just literally tried to cram to much in with improper cooling. They made it a pain for maintenance and basically not upgradeable. Another instance of form over functionality. Greatly prefer this design over the disgusting cheese grater.
Hey, i know i am like.. 8 months too late but... have you really released that case to the public some time after the release of this video? Because i could not find any information on your other videos :
is there a reason that the power switch is on the bottom would it not make sense to have it on the front like a regular case like what was the reasoning behind that. just very curious
So much wasted space in this case. I have seen other clones which use a SFX power supply and a dedicated graphics card. But to be fair they aren't 3d printed. I personally would design the top more open to exhaust and the fan bracket to seal with the fan to prevent recirculating of hot air.
@@Crosslink3D We still have some of those where I work. I noticed you put the power button on the bottom of the case. What if, you put it on the back near the back panel like the Macs do so that its in an easier location for access? I'd imagine you could make a square opening in the Cad file, similar to the one for the back panel. Then 3d Print a holder that would snap into that opening to hold the Power button. You might be able to do a similar thing to add front panel connections (front USB and audio connections). Great design over all! Love your videos on the Anet A8 BTW.
This is unrelated to the video but I just wanted to say that native English speakers don't end sentences in "looks like" very much. That sounds unnatural to my ear. You should drop the "like". Here are examples: "let's see how it looks" or "how does it look?". It doesn't sound right to end with the word "like".
For a server it’s probably ok but I see the need for that also. The latest gaming AMD processor though looks like it’s already as powerful as the rtx 3050 so we could try that also
Housing box shaped components into a cylinder is a fundamentally wrong design that only wastes space and is not functional at all. Decades of distilled engineering wisdom has found the optimal design: box. For those arriving late to the party and willing to be original at all costs there are only the broken designs left. This video perfectly depicts one of those.
Case is huge compared to the mainboard, so much wasted space and a footprint almost as big as an M-ATX case in width. Form over function and solving and already solved problem just with worse materials....3D printing in a nutshell.
