I left a good amount of room over the motherboard for airflow, then have 2 fans out the back, and 2 out the top.

This has the added benefit of not having the motherboard sit on the ground. The primary design has the two sides doing the main support and sitting on the table, with a few layers internally. This allows 90 degree acrylic pieces to snap together and hold together tightly. The main method of construction for the case is “Interlocking T Bolts”, as described in. I have had these Eyoyo brand screens at work before, they are cute, fairly inexpensive (~$90) little screens that offer a lot of inputs (HDMI, VGA, Composite, BNC) their main draw back is the LED on the front is brighter than the Sun. I tend to leave a GPU and Task manager on it while playing games to see how much I am using the system. At 1080P I can put Spotify on it and have touch screen controls, or play movies. The front screen is a touch screen, as well as a secondary screen to the main monitor. At this point I also just wanted the machine to work so I could play games, so the second computer and KVM idea was scrapped. That idea was going until I got everything in the case and realized it was very tight. I also figured this PC could be used to play music/videos, and have a KVM that would switch over to the main computer, then back again. And then via a relay turn the main PC on and off. To go back to the start, I liked the little screen on the front of the original Macs, my thought was if I had a tiny PC like a Raspberry Pi running the screen, I could have it show information about the computer. Note: some of the final designs on Github don’t perfectly line up, or have holes that are not positioned right mostly this is only for the lid, but since it is held in by gravity I did not do extensive work to fix the issue. This gave me 4 DIMMs for ram over 2, and an extra PCI slot for the future.

I ended up giving myself another inch, so that I could get a Mini-ATX motherboard over a Mini-ITX one. I designed a case, a bit larger than the original by an inch or so in Illustrator, then went and laser cut it. And at this point the decision to make an Mac-Inspired case was made. At this point I had also done some math, and my 11″ long GTX 970 would not fit anyway into that case.

Mac plus computer case