Been lurking around the bit-tech forums for a while now and finally decided to sign up and get involved. I've spent way too many hours scrolling through the Project Logs here, the builds you guys put together are pretty impressive! I’m currently in the early stages of planning out a custom wall-mounted setup. I'm trying to move away from a standard case and do something a bit more open and vertical. I'm mostly focusing on the 'how-to' side of things right now, like cable management and making sure everything is structurally solid. Looking forward to picking your brains once I get my head around the planning phase. See you around the boards! Cheers, Forgedawg
Thanks for the welcome! It seems like a great community. Quick question for you, I'm planning a vertical build that uses a wooden backboard instead of a standard case. I have some technical questions about mounting and grounding on wood. Should I head over to the Modding sub-forum for that, or is there a better spot for custom 'scratch build' questions?
Welcome to the forum. Yes the modding section would be a great place to start a thread. But from my understanding, wood isn't conductive so you wouldn't need to ground it, most modern hardware would be fine as the PSU is the main ground for things. The only concern would be dust and static but electroboom on YouTube covered how much static it takes to kill a modern pc soo you'd be fine. I've had a exposed motherboard screwed to a board in my garage that I used a printer server for years 0 issues, that poor thing got abused
Welcome! Always nice to see a new member. There's been a fair few epic wall mounted builds. You could try looking through prior mod of the month nominees to find some inspiration.
Welcome! Modern PCBs are coated in something, I think, aren't they? Very well protected from atmosphere. I've left components in dubious conditions and been surprised how no corrosion forms. It used to be common to see rust on motherboards at one point.
