Suitcase PC

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lilkooch22
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Suitcase PC

So a few months back my wife went to an auction and purchased a few old suitcases that she planned on making an end table out of. She had one extra and she thought that I might want to use it to build a custom case with it. Well she was right, haha. Here is my very first custom case build out of an old suit case.

I pulled an old motherboard tray, plexiglass side panel, and power/reset buttons from an old tower I had lying around and used them with the suit case. For the components, I went on eBay and bought a few used parts which ended up working out perfect! Overall I really like how it turned out and now I am hooked! I am trying to think of what my next build will be.

UPDATE:
I added two pictures after some thermal testing.

*After running Heaven for about an hour, the GPU temps hovered around 70C
*After the hour, I ran a few Cinebench R15 runs and the COU topped out at 56C

Color(s): Black Blue
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Case Mod
Cooling: Air Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build

Hardware

CPU
$ 68.02
Intel - Core i3-6300
Socket: LGA 1151
Cores: 2
Motherboard
$ 348.86
MSI - Gaming M3 (Z170A)
Chipset: Z170
CPU Socket: LGA 1151
Size: ATX
Memory
$ 98.68
Corsair - Vengeance LPX (2133MHz) (Black)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 8 GB
Graphics
$ 185.99
NVIDIA - Founders Edition
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 1070
Storage
$ 25.00
Kingston - A400
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (M)
Capacity: 120 GB
PSU
$ 228.84
EVGA - SuperNOVA G3
Wattage: 1000
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Gold
Case
Custom - Custom (custom)
Case Fan
$ 29.99
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