Wasn't feeling great the last few days so I haven't done much woodworking. I decided to build the PC part and mount it to keep some building momentum going. I knew I wanted to use the open air concept to keep the pc cool, so I went and found a board about the right size.
The one mod I did first was to remove the annoying fan from the video card I was going to use, and I used some arctic silver thermal epoxy to attach a big heatsink I had leftover from an old xbox. Thermal epoxy is great stuff, held it on very well.
Then I mounted the motherboard to with homemade standoffs made up of a piece of tubing, screw and nylon washer on top. It worked out great. I had some spare black angle iron left over so I used that to make mounting brackets for the power supply, hard drive and video card. I wasn't going to bother supporting the video card at first, but with the addition of that huge heatsink, it needed it.
It's an older PC, P4 2.8 Ghz, but it'll do fine for what it needs to, and if not I can upgrade down the road. Spent zero dollars on this part as my buddy donated the mobo/cpu/ram and I had the rest of the parts in my spare parts bin.
Well, I hope to finish off the cabinet part this weekend if Im lucky, and then it will move indoors for finishing work and assembly.
That's all for now, cheers!