Maintenance is easier when you can get your hands around all the cards. I opted to use a wood frame out of a bench from Ikea. Introducing
Molger, named for the bench. Mining meets home decor!
http://s230.photobucket.com/user/KougarLOB/library/MolgerPhotos were taken after the frame completion. Removed planks were formed into shelves. The frame will soon be running five cards - 290X, 480, 390 (x2), and 1060. Laser cut acrylic sheet with tiny vent holes was placed above the downward facing motherboard (with nylon spacers) to prevent falling debris from shorting the board. A few recycled 24V fans running 12V push fresh air across the motherboard and hash chamber. Supplemental power to be provided by HP server PSU on a lower shelf. Sleeved PCI-E power cables will be discretely secured to the frame. Primary hard drive is a M.2 chip. Upper HDD cage is for BURST mining. Custom soldered circuit board holds power and reset switches, Power/HDD LEDs, and a 5v/12v breakout circuits for fans. I will soon add a small cover above this board. Holes were bored as to not block the normal exhaust ports - never got around to staining the insides. Unseen in the photos is a 12v cross-flow fan (running 5v) under the two 120mm fans that blows through the hash chamber.
Even with all the holes and modifications the bench still holds my fat ass. Can you sit on your miner? Great foot warmer. Form and Function!
I have another steel full tower case with 16 hard drives jammed in with three video cards. Only one card is a blower style cooler. The other two cards' exhaust is evacuated by three 5v 40mm fans that blow through manufactured holes near the cards. All of this is powered by a 1000W Titanium PSU. No pics yet.
I typically build all my own power cables.