Motherboard tray?

I'm looking to rebuild a PC that's housed inside of a wooden cabinet. I'm looking to mount it on the inner wall of the cabinet but I need something that can support the weight of the video card if I do that. I can lay it flat in the cabinet, but I'm looking for something a little bit more durable than that.

It would probably be something that looks like this:

But that one is for a Merlin SM8 case and that bit alone costs about $120 which seems like overkill.

Any ideas?

-Byshop

are you looking to buy a motherboard tray or make one yourself?

Why not just get an open air chassis? Like the Thermaltake Core P5

you can always get out the power tools and fabricate one out of an old case. That is a badass idea BTW

Case Labs cases are ridiculously expensive.... I've heard nothing but great things though. I decided not to get one but yes, I seriously considered spending $600 on a case for a few weeks.

If you do get it I would suggest getting some threaded inserts for the thumb screws so you're not threading directly into the wood. I can't think of a better way to make your own and not have it look janky.

You can always look around... I'm sure there are cheaper ones for sale. Or perhaps you could pillage a used case. Find a cheaper case that has a tray and search Ebay.... I couldn't find anything but I did not really look too hard.

Buy, for sure.

The cabinet is too small for that. Besides, you're an alt account who is now banned so meh.

Of course, but there are other projects that require my time and attention.

Yeah, if a piece of a Case Labs case costs over $100 I can imagine that a full case would cost.

An old case would have worked. There was a company I used to use called Enlight or something like that who made pretty decent cases that I used for all my builds. The entire motherboard tray and expansion slots slid out the back, and I'd used that portion of the case for similar projects in the past.

In this instance I just went ahead and bought the Case Labs. It's more than I wanted to spend but at the end of the day it's not enough money to worry about. I'd rather solve the problem quickly than spend a lot of time on it when I had so many other elements of these projects stacked up. The quality of the Case Logic case portion I bought is really nice. It's all power coated aluminum and the craftsmanship is top notch. Not sure I'd drop $600 on a case like... ever, but they certainly seem nice.

-Byshop

@Byshop: i've seen some online sellers but i cant vouch for the ligitimacy of their operation or website. here is one, but exercise caution and do some research

http://www.caselabs-store.com/motherboard-trays/

For anyone curious, here are the "before" and "after" photos:

-Byshop

have you found a way to mount the hdd?

+1

and anyway to mount the ssd or what seems like an ocz ssd. also is there any way that the psu could be arranged to blow air outside of the cabinet if it is enclosed and will you add an exhaust fan.

Can you link to where you bought it Byshop?

I think they are some old OCZ Vertex 4 drives. I've got two SSDs and one HDD. I pulled the drive cage out of an old case and I previous had used that to hold the drives but right now they are just loose. It's only an issue if I move the whole thing.

I haven't figured out what I'm going to do for overall case exhaust yet, but so far not having it hasn't been a problem. I'm running it with the back open but the issue is the monitor is inside the cabinet with the PC itself.

Just Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F67O5EI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Looks like they ran out since I bought it but I think there were others.

-Byshop

Thanks. Good to know if I want to make my own case one day.

Here's the front for anyone curious.

-Byshop