Yes. Hard drives aren’t really all that loud either.

The paint sounds promising. It just needs to stick to ASA. I’m not sanding anything either so it’s not flat but that might be a good thing to increase surface area for the paint to bind to.

I thought about that, and I can change that bottom plate at any time, but the GPU takes a lot of space in there. I need to be sure there’s enough air reaching the cpu cooler so I allowed bypass to reach that.

So I can restrict entrances or I can add ducting. But then I have to worry about dividing up thins on the intake so much the GPU and CPU side can’t cool effectively.

AirPower is a thing and my CAD image proves it!

Can’t fit that in the shape I want.

I wonder if I put chicken wire against the inner walls and run that to the case of the power supply would that work well enough?

I want to have as few visible seams as possible but I can make them where I need. My primary concern here is thermals.

I don’t know, someone online, I remember arguing the exact same thing about 3-D printed computer cases being a bad idea because of static concerns,but I was basically mauled in the comment section for it

The openings under them and the spacing between them is to allow air to be pulled through them.

I was concerned about the filament and ESD too but have been told the motherboard would just ground out to the PSU through the power connector and not to worry about it. Since the hard drives are also connected I figured they would ground out the way too. There is ESD safe filament I could use for the drive cage though.

I’m actually just using onshape. It’s all done in a browser.

https://www.ipfire.org/

I was considering IPFire if OPNsense doesnt play out well.

its basically a bit of futureproofing. 1 gig is fine for my home but I want the option to go a step further if I want to later.

I need VLANs and I’m planning some PoE+ stuff too, meaning higher costs though now that I think about it those are probably more common in 10Gig switches anyway. But that still means they are consuming more power, making more heat, making more noise from fans…

well it’s just for a home network and theres nothing I have that will ever need 10G. I energy consumption is higher and equipment costs are higher on 10G as well. I’ll likely be on gigabit for quite a bit but I’m planning the 2.5G as a compromise for future upgrades.

enterprise wont likely support 2.5gig which is what I’m targeting for this build. 10 gig is too expensive and power hungry for my tastes but 2.5 or 5 should be fine.

Oh i know they arent going to rip out existing support over this drama, but I really want to cut intel out of things wherever I can anyway. They have been on my shit list for years over corporate assholery. But now if they fail or break up or spin off divisions, the new owners of the networking division could theoretically throw the stability of that line into question so since I’m starting from a clean slate, I’d like to just avoid all that if possible.

Sounds like a market ready for disruption

They used to encode with h264. I set up a rig 2 years ago with the goal for using that card just couldn’t source cameras at a decent price that use the olde codec. It’s actually pretty difficult to find that anymore. Also, they need to decode streams for processing for things like object detection. That doesn’t work without decoding being done on each stream first.

I am open to being wrong on this I just want to be certain before I get to the spending money stage. Can you show me where you got that information?

That is an interesting option but I’m not sure 4 gracemont cores could do full IPS in opnsense.