How to make a PCI-express Riser Card

[Kalanen]

Howdy!

Ok, so let's get to the point right away: I am making a "laptop" out of my PC. And a laptop shouldn't be very high, right. I have a PCI-E GF 7600GT and I need to turn the card horizontally so it will fit into the box. I tried to google for this but I didn't find anything except for some pics. This is an example. So, I am trying to make a thing like that but I really wouldn't like to wreck my stuff. If anyone has done a thing like this before, I would really appreciate if you could tell me.

Thanks already!

- Kalanen

[Kalanen]

And to clear things up I drew some pictures about the situation.

In pic1 the card is vertically and it's far too high.

In pic 2 the card is horizontally and this is what I am trying to do.

- Kalanen

[flanzig1]

http://www.risercards.com/index.asp
http://www.globalamericaninc.com/bac...s/riser_bp.php

[Kalanen]

Thanks, but I would really like to make it myself as I don't have too much spare money and around here I didn't find any of those .

So, if anyone has anykind of knowledge about this I would really appreciate if you could enlighten me about this.

[flanzig1]

Making one will probably end up costing the same as a pre-made one. Probably won't be able to do an accurate edge connector with home circuit board etching, at least one that won't short out the motherboard.

[Mr.Ferrari]

Do you plan to make your own chassis? Because regular laptop chassis don't use regular ATX boards..

[glc]

I think he's making a custom case for a standard ATX board - kinda like the pizza box Dell Optiplex cases?