Full Printable ITX Case Mac Pro 2013 style

Discussion started by icehardy44

Greetings to all!
I decided to share my vision of a compact home computer

work is still ongoing, will be taken into account identified shortcomings
tips and comments are welcome

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/hobby-diy/electronics/full-printable-itx-case-mac-pro-2013-style

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Posted almost 10 years ago
0

Some critical note's from a self PC builder here (sorry).

I made allot of PC builds and see some obvious problem here, "no place for massive GPU's". There are nice cheap bare bone cases available that have support for a large GPU card.

I ones made such a system for a friend and it was very small jet very powerful for gaming and all sort of high demanding software. It housed a mini ITX with Sata600 support driving two SSD's in raid 0 a core i5 CPU and a GTX660 GPU. (all in a very small package jet there were no performance tradeoffs here)

There are smaller form factor PC's with lower spec. graphics already available, so I don't see the reason for your form factor here.

It's a nice design though.

Al in all I think this is a nice case study for 3D printing product design and good learning experience.

Posted almost 10 years ago
1

I was bored with cubic design :)
buy ready to go computer is too boring

and I set myself the task of making the case that can be fully printed on the 3D printer
the outer shell may be of various design

I have other computer of course much more powerful

iterateCGI wrote
iterateCGI
It's a very well executed task in that regard. Apart from my critic note, I would argue this is a inspiring example of what we can do with 3D printing. Downloadable 3D printing designs for self to assemble products is definitely the future and it's obvious you are already good in this subject matter. You could collaborate with manufacturers ore online dealers of electronic components. For example, there are theses online shops where you can buy small GPS receivers, electric gyros, motors and control receivers for quad copters, basically everything you can imagine to make whatever you can imagine. Example here (http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-RC-Quadcopter-Parts-c-2007-0-1-1-45-0_page1.html?sortType=desc) and here (http://www.rcplanet.com/RC_UFO_Quadcopter_Parts_s/5689.htm) It would be nice if we (folks with 3D printers) could download 3D printing files of assembly parts/components on this kind of stores. Idem for your idea, that would also be nice to download from a PC components online store.

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