I’ve been pulling in and finalizing a few more ideas. The more I plan, the more I realize, that I’m gonna have this case packed! It may have twice the volume of the Sugo in my previous project, but it’s still a SFF case.

The radiators and fans are taking up a fair chunk of space all by themselves. I’ve already had to do some behind-the-scenes re-envisioning to make sure I have room for all my components. In order to fit a full size ATX motherboard in this case, it’s simply not feasible to have the fans mounted directly on the radiators. However, in order to achieve airflow through them, there will be six 120 mm fans exhausting air from the case. The case will be sealed, with the only air inlet being though the radiators. This will ensure that the coolest air possible, finds its way in to the case. In addition, I should now have room for 6 hard drives. As started earlier, these will be on a custom removable rack. The rack will sit forward of where the current rear 120mm fan sits. With the removal of a couple of screws, the entire hard drive assembly should slide right out the back of the case. I hope to give more details when I get a little closer to that part of the mod.

Other notes here…

The case will have a slightly automotive type theme. As such, the case is going to have a pair of these Dakota Digital gauges to measure the water temps for each loop.

I’m also going to incorporate one of these Griffin Powermates…

I’ve got my LCD choices narrowed down. I’m going to be using one of the following. Which one, will be determined on available space left after gauge placement is decided.

10.2” 4:3 ratio 800×600

10.2” 16:9 ratio 800×480

9” 16:9 ratio 800×480

Decisions, decisions…

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