Looks like an interesting design. I like the idea of having the mobo on top of the HDDs and CDROMs etc. Have you considered the cabling though? It might get tight to get the cables round and wire up in the best way? sATA may be a good solution for your hard drives here. How are you planning on constructing the case? Also small note could you make the image a bit smaller cause it's painful to download and view on my laptop
hmmm 340mm is 13.3858268 inches so nah it wont be that big looking at the pic i thought it was big but 13 inches is really not that big
Ummm, where's the power supply? Edit: ah, okay. It's behind the hard drives. I don't see alot of space allowing for cables and wire management, and where the PSU is not you're going to need an ATX power extender.
340 cubed is pretty big.. in terms of volume it's not going to be any smaller than a standard tower case. I guess the problem would be that a lot of the volume in the centre is just wasted space, for cables etc.
OK well from your design, you might want to make the cube better. The way you have the motherboard above the hard drive rack, floppydrive and cd-roms, you'll most likely want a board with a similar design to the Abit AN7 or theAsus A7V8X-X. The next thing to focus on, you talked about wanting to have the cables go out with the hard drive rack when it flips out on a mechanical arm. I recall reading that there is a certain length IDE cables shouldn't exceed in order to have the best data transfer results. You should be fine extending the psu cables.
that looks sweet but you sure are putting a whole lot in a small space. just in devices. 2 cdroms 4 hdd's 1 fdd 7 80mm fans 5 60mm fans 1 psu 1 12v adaptor dude that is a lot in a roughly 1ftx1ft cube have you tried a dryfit of just parts? I see your drawing but do you have the other parts? you are gonna be a tight fit if it will indeed fit? this is not even loking at the mobo or cards for it unless you are using a board with everything onboard.
all in all it doesnt seem like there is too much stuff (really, you should see my machine), but it does seem like a bit of overkill on the fans. i count 13 with the above mentioned list. the noise levels will be insane even if using a baybus. using some acrylic sheets you could make your own ducting to place the air where you want it. you could easily think of a more efficient design using a total of 3 120mm fans to cool all of the components that require it. hell, 3 120mm fans would also be cheaper than all of the little ones, since you seem to be concerned about the budget. remember parts = $, but time = free using a single 120 for the drives and 2 120's for the motherboard area you would get ample cooling (even for a prescott!) and save yourself a headache on all of the wiring that would be involved. oh yeah, considering the placement of all of your drives, you wont have to worry about cabling distances whatsoever. i love the horizontal design of the motherboard layout! edit: depending on the motherboard you use, there might be a stretch with the PSU's atx connector. maybe mirror the arrangment of the bottom segment. it should get rid of any distance concerns that an oddball powersupply will give you
I understand that you have put much work into it, but I think you are going to have problems getting everything to fit, but I will wait until it is completed to see. Good luck on your cube
wow....this is really scary...while in school...8th period...i started scetching out a case..this is about 2months ago...well, my origional design is almost identical to your design.....i am scared... *looks over shoulder.....sees hyperdreamz in the window copying scetches from my notebook....* i am seriously freaked out...now give me my designback.....nvmind...when i build mine, it will kick yours' ass...............*tears of horror...*
