DIY PC case for 3 systems?
I just have a few questions about the general idea.
So, I currently have three ATX PC systems, each in its own tower. And since I'm redesigning my room soon anyway, I'm thinking about making a homemade case for all of the PCs.
This is about my main PC, which I use for everything, with multiple PCIe cards, and two other PCs without PCIe cards. Specifically, one PC for hosting game servers and one for cloud storage.
I can work out all the questions about the exact implementation later, but my questions that remain are:
1. What material should I use? Weight doesn't matter since it doesn't need to be moved?
2. Is it worth using one cooling solution that cools all PCs together or is it better for each motherboard to have its own cooling solution?
3. I briefly considered using one power supply for everything, of course taking into account all consumption at each voltage, but the idea sounds a bit complex to me too?
For shared cooling, I had more ideas: a parallel water circuit with three pumps and two 360° radiators and an expansion tank. Or three pumps and three radiators with one tank.
To answer a few questions first: I'm actually quite knowledgeable in this area and am just looking for ideas to refine my project.
I don't think of the idea of a common power supply as a shutdown would then paralyze all 3 systems and only one has tied the SW together.
I've been thinking about it and it would work with a microcontroller that controls the network. But that was just a reflection on whether it would be possible. Probably I won't do it
sry but this is by far the most stupid idea I've been reading for a long time. Build a stringed pc together, with dual boot if you want to use multiple systems and is good.
Currently I have 3 running pcs and I would also like to put this out of show for a diy case. And I don't know what a dual boot should help here.
google: dual boot. What else do you need 3 pieces? doesn't make any sense. sell two and invest the money for a stringed pc. everything else is, as I said, more perfect cube.
you can do all this with a single pc… buy yourself a big case where neat hdd's fit or nas n pc as cloud also makes absolutely no sense.
I know what dual boot is. I only have separate pcs that each have one task. The 2 others are, as I said, servers and data cloud. With dual boot I can only do one thing.
That makes no sense at all, sorry
It shouldn't make 100% sense either. I just want to assemble my 3 pcs in a case