I wanted to build a minimal media center so I built a custom wooden pc case recycling a $50 desktop pc for parts.

My old Lenovo core2duo desktop was showing its age as a media center so I decided to upgrade it to a Lenovo ThinkCentre M82 SFF. Problem is, it is quite ugly to have one of these desktops sitting in your living room. So I figured why not build my own from solid wood. It's also a nice challenge to try to minimize the footprint compared to the original.

It needed to fit two 3,5" hard drives containing my media collection. I sacrificed PCIE expandability to save space. I don't need a dedicated GPU anyway. It has an i32120 and 8GB of ram so it should be a decent upgrade

The goal was also to keep the budget as low as possible, I only ended up buying two 120mm fans. The pc was about $50.

If you like it let me know in the comments. Perhaps I'll do another version of this with new parts just to see how small I can go.

Also, I realize I could have made the frame from aluminum to save even more space but I never really worked with this material. So in order to keep things simple I stuck with wood.

The plans are available for download: here. Keep in mind that during the build I did make some changes that aren't reflected in the original design.

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