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    Default Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    OK my Idea is easy but not easy.
    I'm thinking of making a table that has glass on top of it and under it all my computer parts showing. A motor sliding the computer parts out from underneath the table to be able to upgrade it easily. Also, want it to be small enough to be able to take with me after i move out.

    Any opnions?

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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    Popular mechanics did some thing similar not too long ago. They have a step by step on how they put it together, so it could be good starting point for your idea.

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...67.html?page=1


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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    By any chance, Does anyone know if it get dust inside of it.

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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    Oh it would; unless you only operate it in a clean-room. There's really no way to completely get rid of dust...unless you did a full-immersion, which come to think of it would be pretty cool in a glass table....

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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    What do you mean?

    Also. If its fully closed like no holes or anything it still gets dusty?

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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    Well, if it were fully enclosed with just air-cooling, then yeah, no dust would get in, but no heat would get out either. So you would basically just end up cooking your system.

    Full-immersion cooling is when the entire system (minus HDDs and ODDs, of course) is submerged in some non-conductive liquid (usually some kind of oil).

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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    So motherboard and I don't know what else dipped in some kind of oil?
    Doesn't water cooling take out all heat?

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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jahaziel View Post
    So motherboard and I don't know what else dipped in some kind of oil?
    Yeah, you'd have the everything except for the HDDs and ODDs submerged. Here's an example:


    Quote Originally Posted by Jahaziel View Post
    Doesn't water cooling take out all heat?
    No, water cooling is just like normal air cooling in that it only cools the things that..well, the things that you cool. Only the things with waterblocks or normal heatsinks are cooled.

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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    If you had a good way of routing hot air from the processor and graphics cards to say . . . the inside of the metal tubes the desk is made of, then the metal tubes might be enough to dissipate the heat within a sealed system. Watercooling would be another way to get heat from the inside to the outside without air ever getting in. You would want to consider liquid cooling everything in that case as most parts (like hard drives and the power supply) rely on air movement as well. Some people will say that all you will do is cook your computer if it is sealed. While this would probably be true of a sealed system if you did nothing, the big thing with heat is that it is okay anywhere except where your computer parts are. If you can get heat away from your parts and dissipated to the outside of the desk within a sealed system, then you are fine.

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    Default Re: Table with see through glass Computer. Look inside.

    So this is highly impossible unless i do the dipping in unconductive liquid

    Ok new idea since i can use that liquid. Making the motherboard and psu submerged in the liquid and making it have somehow go to leak like a water fall and then pump it self back in. All in a table. What you guys think

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