The design will be inside/out of the case? Or Just the OutSide

Either or, bud. =] Both are valid entries.

Sweet gonna have to see what I can cook up.

is there a # of drawings your allowed?(1 main idea but like diff drawings for each part?

Hehe, I am the admin of NZXT's Forum, and was working on a concept of my own and showed it to a member, and then the member yelled at me for not telling him about the contest, even though I knew nothing about it I am working on an HTPC

Quote: Originally Posted by steveyblack is there a # of drawings your allowed?(1 main idea but like diff drawings for each part?

Post as many as you like... It will still count as one entry though. ie. More than one post/pic will not enter you more than once.

Thought id never relize how slow it actually take one to draw by hand a diagram of the inside of a case, and a door, im working on the front, top, and back. ill update latter

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I would figgure I would give u guys somthing to aspire to 1 of my 3 designs Once my new PC is finished I will do em in Maya:


I know the CD drive is too small, that is far from finished

I dont mean to be rude, but maybe you should have pics as attachments on here instead of an image server. Those images tend to get lost sometimes, and after all this is a contest.

Well, here goes nothing...

I'm just now starting to get interested in building my very own HTPC, but in addition to that, I've taken more and more of an interest in desktop type models as opposed to a tower. The heatsink/fan combos that they are making nowadays seem to be so darn huge that you would think that it is putting undue stress on the mobo around the cpu socket. In addition, you've always got that heat from the video card going up into the cpu heatsink, too.

So, I tried to design a case that could double as an HTPC or as a desktop model.

The entire case is made to look like brush Aluminum. The front panel is curved outward. Think of laying a Lexa case on it's side and that's the general shape. The black stripe across the front is black smoke plastic. On the left side of the strip are two or three blue LED lights (one for power and one or two for activity). In the lower left, you have a small flip down door that would conceal the front I/O ports, such as headphones, two USB, and one firewall.

With the door open, you have one 5 1/4" bay for the optical drive. The second 5 1/4" bay is for a VFD. I'm assuming most or all VFDs operate on infrared, which is why that horizontal stripe across the front is make of black smoke plastic. You'll be able to operate the system with the door closed. I may have made the stripe too thin and it may need to be expanded. However, you get the idea.

Then, you have an optional 3 1/2" floppy.

The top view shows how the front panel is curved horizontally. Vents can be altered, but I figured the more vent you have, the more hot air is going to escape. This can be and probably should be backlined with a mesh to prevent things from falling into the case.

The side view shows how the front panel is curved vertically. Also, there is a vent for more ventilation. Perhaps a design could be made so you could stealth an optional intake fan on the inside. By making it an intake fan, you would push the hot air that is on the card upwards and out the top side vents.

The back panel shows the orientation, plus the inclusion of two 60mm exhaust fans.

The bottom view shows the orientation of the feet, in addition to the long open intake vent. On the non-door side of the front panel, you could have two or even perhaps three side by side 60mm intake fans.

The feet of the case would be similar to the ones used on the Nemesis Elite; however, they are banded with the same brushed aluminum as the case. For the kicker, I would line the bottom of the feet with black felt. Most video entertainment centers nowadays have glass shelves and that would be a really sweet touch to add to the case feet.

I think that this design would make an outstanding case for either a desktop or as an HTPC.

Rob

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Ok...I got one
The case is called Wicked Skull (base on a Coolermaster case design)

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Quote: Originally Posted by THRASHER2 Ok...I got one The case is called Wicked Skull (base on a Coolermaster case design)

Haha I love it, but I think NZXT will need CoolerMaster's permission to make that case into production (since it is a CoOlerMaster case).

Nice contest, just started with designing a case in 3D with the UT2004 game editor , cause school is gona restart it might take a week or so.

Rob, I like some of your ideas, about making it a tad thicker, you mind if I use a few of em? I allways have scaling problems

Quote: Originally Posted by Retell Rob, I like some of your ideas, about making it a tad thicker, you mind if I use a few of em? I allways have scaling problems

Sure. Don't know what you mean by "thicker", though.

The pictures were done in MS Paint so nothing on it is to exact scale. Best I could do since I was at work.

Rob

Hmm, the modeling of the case went much quicker then I thought in the editor, so here are the first pics:
Upper left: Inside the case looking to the front
Upper center: The right side of the case
Upper right: View from the top
Down left: The case it's front, leftside and top.
Down right:
Well, this case has a new and exciting feature, you can place the case on it's left-side, so that it looks like a regular case.
Cause of the HDD and CD/DVD-drives would be vertical then, I've created a way to flip the drive boxes to so they'll be horizontal.
This is being done by placing on each side of the cage 4 rings, which can be filled on bottom(or left depending how the case is placed) by a little bar and on the other side, the side where the window panel is at, there will be a removable bar all the wide of the case with litle bars to go in the cage's ring once again.
This will hold the cages secure and gives an easy option to remove/insert them.
I might just draw another picture later to show beter what I mean

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Features:
- Black with Bolt on Plexi-Glass for a nice and shiny look
- Side Window
- 2 Front LED UV blue 120MM In-take Fans

Looks like someones rig already... Here is the link to Defyant's MOD "STORMD" I think you really need to rething your entry as it is a blantant rip off of this guys work. Looks identicle.

http://forums.pcapex.com/project_wor...11-stormd.html

Unless you are Defyant's kid, try coming up with something of your own next time dirt bag...


quote=spitfire088]Features:
- Black with Bolt on Plexi-Glass for a nice and shiny look
- Side Window
- 2 Front LED UV blue 120MM In-take Fans

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That's probably 'cause it IS identical...
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...O/IMG_0412.jpg
It's photochopped to make it look hand drawn, c'mon man, that's not cool at all.....