Mounting the Monitor, Motherboard and PSU

Now that most of the painting is complete (leaving the final coat for the side panels until nearer the end, so they don't get too scuffed), we mounted the monitor into the cabinet. The Dell monitor I'm using has a handy detachable bracket that we've placed onto the horizontal wooden monitor panel; this way, the monitor can be easily taken out of the cabinet if I so wish in the future (or at least while we construct it).

Then we arranged the motherboard and psu into the base of the cabinet and raised it up off base panel using a couple of thin pieces of wood. Sandwiched between the strip of wood and motherboard / psu, we used some heavy duty felt pads, these should hopefully help to dampen the vibrations from the on board fans (I suspect without these the wood would only amplify the vibrations).

The next jobs to do include; mounting the hard-drive, attaching brackets for the perspex monitor cover (with bezel), choosing an amp and speakers, fitting the mains socket into the back door along with a master power switch and the back door fan - all of which I'll cover in my next post. Here's the build so far: