http://www.boksdesign.com Boks Design - We design nice-lookin' cases Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:46:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NOTE: This articles was updated on January 20th 2008. There might be newer models available than the ones mentioned in this article and we suggest you doublecheck everything before buying since we might have made an mistake. We don't take any responsibilities for which products you choose to buy. To ... http://www.boksdesign.com/howto/how-to-build-a-mini-itx-system Have you realized that you can save a lot of money and the environment by using a Mini-ITX system instead of a normal ATX system? Let's say your normal miditower server that you have running 24/7 in the closet draws 150W which is not unusual for a pretty powerful computer. What ... http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/save-money-on-your-electricity-bill-with-the-mini-file-server One of the main reasons why you would want to have a Mini File Server is to save on the electricity bill and environment. We've done some testing using a power consume meter: An ATX-computer with a powerful CPU and graphics card could draw hundres of watts - even on idle. ... http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/this-is-how-much-power-a-mini-itx-system-consume Just before christmas we made the version 4.0 prototype. Some major improvements of the old version are: Possible to add PCI / PCI-Express card. Not the biggest ones though since space is very limited. But our plan is to be able to fit any usual SATA PCI-card and some moderate graphics ... http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/prototype-40-available The Mini File Server started out as a hobby project and has grown! It's almost a fulltime job and we suspect more cases will come out of this project. So it was time to move from our sister blog My Uninstalled Life to a dedicated blog and site. We decided ... http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/dedicated-site One of our concerns in the the Mini Fileserver is the heat. 5 harddrives and a motherboard squeezed into this small box generates quite some heat. So we decided to do some testing in our prototypes. We have tested the case with several different fans. All tests are available in this ... http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/temperatures-in-the-mini-fileserver We just made a new prototype of the Mini File Server with another “flames” front. Check out the pictures below. Please comment what you think. Here are some picture with the front cover: Here are some pictures without the front cover: http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/new-prototype-30-manufactured When it comes to power supply, Mini ITX doesn’t use a traditional PSU as ATX. It uses a PSU outside the case, just like a laptop computer. Inside the box, there’s a small DCDC-converter board which in it’s turn is connected to the connection on the motherboard to give it ... http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/power-supply-for-the-mini-fileserver First of all we’re building a fileserver case, but we also want to put some effort in designing the case so that it can easily be turned into a regular PC or HTPC. Mounting holes and brackets are made to fit several configurations. Of course we want the case to ... http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/the-mini-fileserver-different-front-plates So we are going to fit 5 HD:s with a 120 mm fan for minimum noise and maximum cooling effect in a box measuring 180×180x250mm. Why use such a big fan if you want to keep the size to a minimum? Well we figure that to keep the noise down at ... http://www.boksdesign.com/blog/mini-fileserver-heat-considerations