Potential Project BBQ-Q

[DynamoNED]

I have an idea for a mod based on a tabletop grill I won last year at my church's Men's Bake-Off (I placed second). I call this (currently hypothetical) Project BBQ-Q. The idea behind BBQ-Q is to fit a fully functional gaming machine within this tabletop grill that will make all opponents QQ (i.e. cry), hence the name (a fusion of BBQ & QQ). Maybe it's a little silly, but its a mod I've been thinking about for almost a year now. :D

I'm working up some preliminary images in Google Sketchup, which I hope to post on here in the near future. I'm not sure what hardware will wind up in this build, but I imagine a mATX or mITX budget bundle from TigerDirect or Newegg with some spare parts I have lying around. :think:

Any suggestions, ideas, & constructive criticism are appreciated.

[diluzio91]

use the heatsink to cook various meats?

[blaze15301]

run a loop with bbq sauce.

[DynamoNED]

Both excellent ideas! I had also considered using the hard drives as a warming rack. :P

In all seriousness, though, despite its size, the grill I want to use has a small warming rack about the right size for a pair of SSD's/hard drives, or an optical drive & a single SSD/hard drive.

[mDust]

:pics:

[Kayin]

Sauce colored LC fluid?

Challenge accepted!

[mDust]

Sauce colored LC fluid?

Challenge accepted!

Uh oh. Krazy Kayin strikes again. I envision a dark figure hobbling into a misty dungeon...to perfect BBQ sauce LC fluid...

[Kayin]

Already figured it out, will sort a materials list when I come back from eating.

It's not cheap, or simple, but it'll look like BBQ sauce and it'll cool really well. And shouldn't clog.

[DynamoNED]

@mDust - Good things come to those who wait. :D

@Kayin - I appreciate you going to the trouble & am very curious to see the materials in this concoction of yours. However, given how much space is at a premium in this build, I'm not sure where I'd fit a full LC setup with pump, reservoir & loops...

:think:

Then again, if it could be made to fit, there would be the grand irony of having a liquid-cooled grill... :P

[AmEv]

Res is an old bottle of BBQ sauce.
Being "poured" into compy area lol.

[DynamoNED]

It's been about 3 weeks since I updated on this. So, without further delay (and just for mDust), here's some pictures of my potential victim...er, candidate for BBQ-Q. I apologize for low picture quality, as the only camera I have at the moment is my Droid Eris.

Here's the grill in the original box, which you can see is a little worse for the wear: (The blurry text list says -8 burger capacity, -Porcelain coated steel hinged lid, -Locking lid for safe portability, and the color is "Red Sedona.")

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/37/grillbox.jpg

Unboxed:

http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/2681/grillunboxed.jpg

Finally, here's the bottom with the lid placed on top. For size comparison, that mayo jar beside it is about 6.5 inches (16.51 cm) tall.

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/1273/grillwithjar.jpg

Some quick measurements of the grill tell me bottom pan is 14.25 inches (36.20 cm) in diameter at it's widest point, 11 inches (27.94 cm) at narrowest, and about 3 inches (7.62 cm) deep. The porcelain lid adds about 6.5 inches (16.51 cm), for a total height of 9.5 inches (24.13 cm). Means I should be able to fit a standard mATX motherboard in there. Now I just have to decide which one...I had been considering the ASUS Maximus III Gene (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131599)...any other suggestions?

[SXRguyinMA]

this is going to be neat :D

[AmEv]

Bringing new meaning to frying your harware.
:popcorn:

[DynamoNED]

Been doing some research for this build. I think I've come up with the hardware I'd like to use for it, but I thought I'd post to get second opinions.

No firm decisions on hardware have been made yet, beyond the following specifications (due to size limits):
-Motherboard must be microATX, less than 14" diagonal (9.6" by 9.6" max dimensions) to fit
-No fans larger than 80mm
-CPU cooler must be either low-profile or less than 90mm tall
-RAM heat spreaders cannot have fins over 1/2" tall to fit around CPU cooler (may change)

I have been considering the following:
ASUS Maximus III Gene Socket 1156 P55 mATX Motherboard
Core i7 8xx Series CPU
Scythe Big Shuriken Low Profile CPU Cooler
Patriot Sector 5 DDR3 1600 RAM (not sure on the heat spreaders with these)
Video Card, Hard Drive, & Optical Drive are undecided

What do you all think?

[DynamoNED]

Thanks to more pressing matters (i.e. finishing my Master's degree and my parents' new computer), I'm going to have to put Project BBQ-Q on the backburner for a while. Never fear, it will make a triumphal return soon enough. For now, though, consider this idea/work log "on hiatus."

[AmEv]

on the backburner for a while
Literally lol.

[DynamoNED]

I was wondering who would catch that first. +rep to you, AmEv.