Ikea computer case

Step 2 Mounting components

I will use this type of tiny screws with their lock nuts to fasten the motherboard and the power button to the case.

Yes I know, in the back of the case I made a real mess.
The power button is placed on the top of the case and the speaker is next to the cd-unit. It is fastened only by it's magnetic power at the metal case of the cd-unit.
I decided to place just under the power supply the inner part of a CD cakebox to support it.

Just one consideration.
In my case I have very old components. A Pentium II Motherboard, Celeron 466 mhz processor, 16 MB VGA card, and only 1 cd and 1 hd units. Probably I will have not heating problems.
If you plan to use something more powerful, you probably will need to mount an additional fan to cool the processor and the vga card.

Comments

[killerjackalope]

holy moses you have the computer I had, these things are wierd as hell, by super cooling the CPU it can read 966mhz on the windows check, max I got was 1.07 GHZ basically in the original cas they are better as foot warmers but will run great when theres frost in your room. I used to live in a house house with a 6 ft tall window and I fell asleep with that open the night of first snow... reasult computer overclocked itself but watch out for the heat problem in them, your new case will make a real difference to it. should be far better (in the end el computo overheated)