Looks nice! Though I like a similar design from Xtia, where they put GPU parallel to MB, making the whole thing quite a bit more compact.
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#32> What if you stop putting your components in a box
... and thus remove the protective casing and allowing every possible kind of foreign matter to intrude the components, having it take direct impacts if I accidentally hit my elbow on it, take possible water damage, not be able to have cats around it any more and my girlfriends hair being sucked into the CPU cooler?
No thank you
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#33Looks nice! Though I like a similar design from Xtia, where they put GPU parallel to MB, making the whole thing quite a bit more compact.
I like that design too. An advantage of this design is it can remain vertical with a heavy CPU heatsink (the XTIA needs to be laid down). I also suspect the graphics card will be cooler with more airspace (I intend to put this hypothesis to the test soon). It's also not clear if they support attaching hard drives? And lastly, I anticipate this one will be cheaper all things considered (e.g. not requiring an SFX power supply) and US-made.
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#34I guess you are not a fan of Apple minimalism. Looking forward to your designs for a mobile...
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#35looks cool but it would attract dust and hair + it would be a heater, don't need a heater in summer. Maybe ok for winter but not summer. And I bet it would be loud with all the open air fans.
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#36Your assembly page is 64Mb, of which 63.7Mb is from images. You might want to look at scaling them down if your server starts struggling.
I know lol. I wanted to keep the images high-res so you can zoom in and see what's going on. GitHub hasn't bothered me (yet...)
You can use https://squoosh.app for easy and effective image compression. Sometimes I can shave off 80-90% of the size without a noticeable difference in image quality.
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#37Are the hard disks attached to one side only ? I guess this will reduce its reliability due to increased vibration