Ultimate Editing/Streaming PC
I was asked to build a custom gaming & streaming PC by a new gaming apparel brand. This brand was in the midst of building a gaming/streaming room that would be used to promote their products. I had made recommendations for certain components that could be sourced easily since there’s a worldwide chip shortage, which has made building or upgrading pc’s very pricey.
The specs were, Ryzen 5900x 12 core CPU, RTX 3090 GPU (this was by far the most expensive piece), 64GB DDR Ram, 2TB SSD, 2TB NVME, an 850w PSU.
I found a metal shelf made of 1/8” sheet metal that was the perfect size to fit the motherboard, radiator, graphics card, and power supply which were the main components that needed to be mounted. After deciding the orientation of how everything would be laid out, I drilled holes for the standoffs. Next, I wrapped the shelf in 3M carbon fiber vinyl and poked holes where the standoffs would be placed. Then came the most time consuming part of the build, soldering RGB LED’s so that no wires can be seen and framing each component with enough LED’s to backlight on the black carbon vinyl. I made over 64 solder connections which took the better part of the day to complete but well worth it!
Last came time to mount all the hardware starting with the motherboard. I ran all of the wiring through holes drilled behind each component for a clean look. I had to make custom brackets to hold the GPU and PSU since neither have threads to mount on standoffs. And finally, to bridge power to and from the PSU I found some awesome RGBIC cables that have several modes for static or sequential lighting effects. When everything was done I mounted the whole thing onto the wall using TV mounting brackets.