My future Wood Finish HTPC (Sketchup file)

[silverdemon]

try entering "wood electric resistance" or "wood heat dissipation" and more of that stuff to find thing. I know that there are some websites where they list that information (needed it for my study once) but I don't know what site it was...

hope that helps

[Crimson Sky]

Fragged, as long as you set all the components up on standoffs (spacers) , and raise them off of the wood and eachother, you will have 0% problems as long as you have air from good quality fans sweeping over them and exhausting out the back. Do not stack components on top of one another (such as the CDROM and HDD). If you do, put stand offs between them.

Even just a 1/4"-1/2" of space is fine--just get air flowing over them. Wood is a very good heat insulator.

[ajmilton]

wood's also a pretty damn good electrical insulator, i'd guess. but yeah, thermal properties aren't a huge deal if you can set up proper airflow. my computer case, for instance, is only warm to the touch near the ps, processor, and hard drives. it also has crappy airflow :\