Good day beautiful people.

Today is a great day, today I celebrate a small achievement of mine. I built my own PC case from scratch, its not perfect but with time I will work towards making it the best in its class.

Introducing the Brq Zero: Spark



This has been taking all of my time since September 2023 and I was able to finish building it in its current state only last week.

Lets talk about the reason behind going through the trouble of making a PC case from scratch.

1. I love a good challenge
2. I am crazy in love with SFF sizes and components
3. I wanted a PC that I can carry around since I bought a 3D scanner and needed something powerful enough ( A laptop will still be plugged into a wall which made me hate the idea of the extra premium of getting a laptop) , thought of building another Node 202 AF ( Click Here ) but it was really hard finding a compatible power supply for the Node 202 currently, the only ones available for me are the Lian LI SFF versions and they are not compatible.

Then I thought to myself, hey why not just create something from scratch that would serve my purpose? and when I started in the design phase I started thinking that this would even be a viable business idea to sell a prebuilt under my brand name ( Brq ).

So the journey started and here we are.

First explaining the PC name

Brq ( Brand name )
Zero ( Line-up )
Spark ( Version )

The PC in the Picture is the prototype that I have been working on ever since I started the prototyping phase, the only thing that this has that won't be in the prebuilt is the processor and the RAM capacity, currently this rocks an i9-13900K and 96GB of DDR5 RAM ( For 3D scanning you need lots of RAM).

if you are wondering about the thermal performance, and if you followed my previous builds like the Node 202 AF mentioned above and the Gentlemans' Gaming Desk you will know that I am an airflow freak, I build and optimize as much as I can to make the case efficient/brutal air flow depending on the scenario and in this case, at this moment it is more optimized towards positive pressure, I tried three ways of airflow tunneling with changes to the places where the PC exhausts the Air, with the fans adjusted to ramp up when the average CPU/GPU combo goes up to make sure that the three front fans always cool no matter which of the two components start heating up.

I will end here, I will come back to update this thread when I build the first PC that will carry the actual specs, if you have any questions about the build let me know, please do share if you know someone who might be interested to see my build.

Check out my other builds as well

Brq Zero: Snowflake
Air-flow Optimized Node 202
The Gentlemans' Gaming Desk