few months back found a PC on the side of the road cause it was council cleanup in my area, needed some ram, and the mechanical drive in it was almost dead.. but i noticed it had a removable MB tray.. which brought on the idea of a stealth build.. mount a few parts to a bit of plywood and mount that to the back of my desk..
the other day i needed to wander down to the local PC shop to grab an SSD for it, got a new PSU as the generic one that was in the orig box was louder than a 747, also got a new CPU cooler for it as the fan was almost dead from dust and shit in the bearings.. and had thrown in a spare 500gb 24/7 seagate server drive i had laying around for storage..
using bits of old mechano i had laying around for the past 20 years.. i mounted the parts needed to the plywood
specs
AMD X2 250
2x2gb Corsair DDR2 800mhz
Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H
Kingston 120gb V300 SSD
Seagate ST3500630NS 24x7 500gb Drive
Corsair VS 450w PSU
its cheaper to run this rig as a daily driver than my gaming rig, so its nice to not be ass raped by the power company when the bills come around..
and tommorow i shall do the stealth part.. mounting this to the rear of my desk up against the wall (there shall be adequate ventilation as i dont keep the desk hard up against the wall)
when i mount it to the back of the desk, might need to break out the soldering iron to extend the power/reset switches as i had them bundled up neatly under stress testing this mobo to ensure it was 100% stable, but other than that, should be fairly easy to do and shall post pics when the job is done.. 