• kylian0087@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Carefull using PLA. PC components can get HOT and potentialy melt the PLA.

    Other then that. It looks very good and clean. Do you happen to share the stls?

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      I printed a case for a small PC that I user as a home server 3 years ago, and I used the cheapest PLA out there. No warping, nothing broke. It is cooled by a single 80mm.

      As long as there’s enough airflow to prevent the PLA from actually heating up, it will be fine.

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      Sure thing

      https://www.printables.com/model/486506-3d-print-pc

      I was also worried about that, but for this PC its only sun that can melt it haha. But yeah it would be better to print with petg or abs Cpu temp never goes above 45C lol. Usually at 35 and case fans are not even spinning. Also mbo is “raised” 10 mm from back wall if that make sense.

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      I’ve also had problems with PLA prints delaminating and becoming brittle over time, especially if it’s being flexed or exposed to sunlight. Some PLA’s are worse than others with this, though.

      I use PETG for anything I want to last a long time.

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        Yeah, but I only had these 2 rolls of PLA. Spent like 800-900 g of each. If it brakes ill make the another one in petg

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          If you’re willing to get into annealing, I’ve had good service from annealed HTPLA in high temperature/humidity and even overpressure environments. I’m three years into a build that gets multiple hours of use in such conditions a week and it’s held up fine. There have been other problems, but nothing related to bad behaviour out of the HTPLA.

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    1 year ago

    Out of all things a PC case is something I never considered to print. Looks great! Might give this a try for a SFFPC.

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      It’s hard to find anything if you don’t want to spend big $$. Good enough reason to sink loads of time hehe

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    I actually thought this was a playstation at the first glance haha. I can’t tell how mini it is… need something for scale… a banana might help!

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      288x207x343 mm (WxDxH)

      Its small for ATX motherboard, but big enough that I had to splir the case in 4 peaces to fit my printer. Ill get banana next time lol

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      Im not sure, dont have wifi on this board, but was planning to get zigbee dongle or something like that for homeassistant in near future.

      At one point I had a PC connected to a wifi with no case at all, but dont know much about that RF shielding tbh

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        ZigBee is so good. The only downside is it’s sometimes hard to find devices. They’ll make a Z-Wave device, but not ZigBee.

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    Combining my two favorite money sinks/hobbies.

    So… What are the specs of the PC?

    Edit: I have no idea how to do strikethrough text here.

    • rambos@lemmy.worldOP
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      MBO: MSI Z270-A PRO
      CPU: Intel G3930
      RAM: DDR4 8GB
      PSU: Corsair RM550X
      FAN: 2x Arctic F12
      3x SSD for OS and storage
      

      Most of components were laying around and I wanted to build low power server. Its pulling 20-30W from the wall and its more than enough for my needs (media server, home assistant and some other lightweight apps), but I might need to upgrade RAM if I continue adding services 🙃

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            Really? With just the CPU? That’s actually pretty impressive! I added a dedicated GPU for mine because the CPU was not cutting.

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              I think its called quicksync. If processor supports that transcoding becomes easy task afaik