As I try and figure out which fan grills I want to put on one side of the case, I'll give you a quick update.

Epimetheus is back up and running inside Pandora's Box. He's crunching a bit 600 point unit right now and I can leave him running 24/7 inside the new box as pictured below. The two other motherboards will come online soon once some power cables arrive. On to the pictures...



Here's just a quick overhead shot of the three motherboards installed with the platform in place. Beneath the platform are two hard drive holders - each with two drives in them - one for each wall of the box. Motherboard #4 is on the way from Newegg - shipped the same day it was ordered.



Just a side shot here of the platform in the middle which will hold the two power supplies. On the right you can see the installation of two power switches - cannabalized from my MAME control panel (well, colors swapped - I went with black buttons which match the black fans & grills).



Here's the two black fans on one side (this is the "blower" side - blows hot air out). They don't have grills yet as only the intake (below) fans are covered - I only had two fan grills and Fry's only had chrome. Below the fans is the hole for the power to enter the case. The extension cord plugs into a splitter which is mounted to the bottom of the box with the only zip-tie in the box.





Above is Epimetheus. Here you can see the KVM cable routed up the right side to the video card. The cables then are routed under the motherboard and then back out to plug into the mouse and keyboard. The power LED and power switch are also routed under the motherboard and emerge up top near the left power button.



This is Prometheus. Due to the low output on the video card, the KVM cable hits one of the power buttons. This will be fixed when the new graphics card arrives shortly. As with Epimetheus, the power LED, power switch and KVM cables are routed under the motherboard where possible.



This is the yet-to-be-named computer. The processor is there, but it has no RAM (I have them sitting on my desk right now though). This is the micro-ATX board donated by Greg to the project. The KVM cable is on the side here, so it's easy to route. The hard drive must be connected also to this motherboard before it'll function.



And here we have the second platform in place above the power supplies. That platform is for the KVM switch (obviously) and cables. The cables are just hanging there right now, but will be neatly arranged once the fourth motherboard and KVM cable is installed. In the middle of the picture, you might be able to make out the power splitter which plugs into the extension cord.



And here she is with three motherboards installed and closed up. It's a tight fit, but it works. Airflow seems to be very good right now, but only Epimetheus is running, so it's hard to say what'll happen when more motherboards come online. Overall, I'd say the box cost about $100 to make (excluding any computer-related hardware - KVM, motherboards). I only had to buy one fan, but four would cost $40 and the cost would have been a lot higher had I not been able to cannabalize so much from other computers.

My only problem now is getting the power buttons working. I had thought I could use the switches I used for the MAME cabinet, but apparently, they are always on, so the motherboard will power up, but then quickly shut down. The button really doesn't seem to act like a switch as I thought it would. The buttons will still be used, I'll just have to rig it so they hit push-buttons rather than the arcade switches.

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