MCE2.0 by Sleepstreamer

What's in a name?

This case is now getting a name, which will be created using two rather thick CNC-milled acrylic panels.


With the two pieces of acrylic milled, the next step was to give the back of the acrylic a lick of black paint. Nothing fancy though, just something so that you can't see through it.

Installing the hardware

The hardware inside this beast will not be cutting edge, since it just won't fit in there. So after some careful deliberation, I decided on the following:

• Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4;
• CPU - AMD Athlon X2 4800+ (65W AM2);
• RAM - 2GB OCZ DDR2-6400;
• GPU - Sapphire AMD 3870 512MB.

As I said, not the latest stuff, but since this case is ATX "compatible" an upgrade wouldn't be completely impossible in the future.


Now let's try mounting it. First off was to make a panel for all of the back plates. Due to space constraints, the graphics card has to lay down across the mobo. So, I added a PCI-Express flexible riser to help me with this.


I so do not want some kind of strange short between the motherboard and graphics, so I made the graph-card support extremely stable. In fact I'm using a slab of 15mm thick aluminium.


As you can see, it's a bit crammed in there, but it all fits! For what it's worth, I had one hell of a complicated afternoon just getting the case assembled with the new hardware inside.