Building computer without a case!!

[omega99]

I am thinking leating the motherboard flat on my dest and just connect all the parts to it
To some this may seem ghetto but to a geek its cool watching the parts working lol
Will the absence of the case damage the computer in anyway?

 

[IamDavid]

I've done it before.. Built it right into the desk actually.. In the sliding desk drawer.

 

[ElFenix]

i've got a cat so i pretty much have to have a case

though the desk drawer idea might work

 

[DeafeningSilence]

Well, there's the obvious lack of protection (bumps, spills, static electricity)...

 

[bleeb]

why don't you make one out of those construction erector sets.. that would be cool
or out of legos... or think of something cool.

 

[Hoober]

Originally posted by: bleeb
why don't you make one out of those construction erector sets.. that would be cool
or out of legos... or think of something cool.

Didn't somebody do that once? I thought there was a website with a LEGO computer.

 

[911paramedic]

Watch it work?? You mean watch the fans spin?? WTH??

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: Hoober

Originally posted by: bleeb
why don't you make one out of those construction erector sets.. that would be cool
or out of legos... or think of something cool.

Didn't somebody do that once? I thought there was a website with a LEGO computer.

Yep I saw that. I"d rather use a case and put some quiet fans in there, I"m not sure what the cooling would be like inside a desk drawer

 

[JupiterJones]

Got mine in an Amazon box.

 

[TallBill]

i think.. 95 million people have already run a pc without a case.. i've had several myself.. its no biggy. sometimes ends up staying a little cooler, sometimes not so much. Gets dusty tho. And there aint many parts working that you can see. Do yourself a favor tho and put it on an antistatic foam or somethin

 

[FenrisUlf]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Watch it work?? You mean watch the fans spin?? WTH??

I think he wants to watch the electrons zip around.

It's been done, heck I do it when I just want to test out a Mobo. If you want it to be a kind of "display" item, why not mount it on the wall? It would be in less danger from spills, and you could put a frame around it and call it art. You might end up with some interference from the lack of EM sheilding though - I've heard of people who couldn't open their garage door when the side of thier case was off.

 

[AkumaX]

eh, do it all the time. im not gonna sit there and install mobo, cdrom, etc.. on a case when im gonna take it out a few hrs later

 

[Analog]

some guy at work stood all the components in their respective places and used expanding foam and let it harden. No case, but it looked like a blob when done.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Watch it work?? You mean watch the fans spin?? WTH??

That's what I was thinking, it's not like you can see the electrons zipping around inside it.