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Yeah, the quick and dirty way is to mount your entire tower case (with bolts, ducktape, whatever) onto a rackmount slider. 19" is really wide for most tower cases. It will do. Just that if I mount about 4-5 of these, it is just really messy (like downtown Boston after the apocalypse). oh, 4+ PCs in a rack silly just drop a shelf on the rack, put 2 towers on it then another shelf and of course another 2 towers remove the sides and lash it down with zip ties https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Adjustable-Mounting-Depth-Vented/dp/B0013KCLQC/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1495665003&sr=8-6&keywords=rackmount+shelf you know what, this may be just what I will come down to, especially for all the older computers. Gutting them all to be rebuilt onto a rack case may be too much hassle and costly. I have been looking all over but all the rackmount cases are so dang boring. I worked in IT around 2000 and nothing much has changed since then. Look at all the gaming cases? So many choices. I have to resist getting them because I cant have another junk tower layiing around my room taking up space like 6 old computers I am staring at right now. And I ran into a problem ... should I even bother with ATX or mATX or even ITX will do for motherboard? 3 years not batting an eye at computer stuff ... now I act like a complete noob.

Yeah, the quick and dirty way is to mount your entire tower case (with bolts, ducktape, whatever) onto a rackmount slider. 19" is really wide for most tower cases. It will do. Just that if I mount about 4-5 of these, it is just really messy (like downtown Boston after the apocalypse). Silent fans is already the idea. It's a home project all right. So this is why I am here to ask if anyone already have done a lot more than me (just an idea now) and can offer a more tried and tested solution. Or maybe someone know some existing cases out there that I can adapt. Sometimes, I don;t mind spending $200 to make life comfortable (but not $4000 for an Alienware machine). Tower or desktop really make very little difference in this case. It will be placed flat. And chances are, 99% of computers out there are tower anyway. All 5-6 of my old computers around here are towers. I mean I can throw them away ... but wouldn't it be fun to re-use them and learn something? Install Linux, try to setup a mini file server, etc... Or power a big multi-monitor display. There is a software called Synergy that allows us to use 1 mouse and keyboard to move seamlessly between computer screens as if you are using one computer. Yeah, it still needs KVM, but .... way more fun. Anyway look at this: Thermaltake CORE P200 Pedestal case... check out the fans .... I just gotta think what I really need to do to mount it on a rack....

Thanks for taking the time to respond. Let's not worry about the frame. I have a lot of them lying around at work. I can even buy a cheap $40 frame on Amazon. And at home I have this. Not exactly that, but very similar. The beauty of rack mount is I can worry about just the computer case for the time being, and I know in the future my case will fit nicely with any rack mounted systems. In fact, I may not be looking to spend on 1 super case so beautiful it will be in the show room. I am looking for cheap solution to convert all 5-6 old computers in my room taking up space to something rackmount so I can re-use them with ease. I can literately mount the motherboard onto a sliding rackmount and call it a day (I don't mind open case). But they don't have holes made for motherboard and I am really sloppy with the drills. So my biggest concern is just.... the fan noise. I don't expect the noise to be super low (like in an audio recording room). I used to work around a lot of computers, so a noise level is fine. But a lot of these rackmount fans have JET ENGINE level noise. Long term exposure to these noises can't be healthy. My ideal system would be: - Front facing input/output (the motherboard with the back to the front) so I don't have to keep reaching for the back. - Giant fans are ok, as long as noise is within reason. - Liquid cooling option. Well I can't imagine it is so hard since I can mount the radiator on the rack. Honestly, this will be a thriving business if I can find partners to start one. A mountable computer cases with drawers even for consoles and other devices, and mount cases for additional harddrives, optical drives, anything you need. Nobody said we have to cramp everything into that ONE box to cook up hot air. We can separate the devices to a different box as long as we have cables to link to the motherboard.

Believe me this is not the first place I would ask this question. But I am kinda out of option so I will try my luck here. I need a new computer. But not just another big tower case, I need a rackmount. I have several racks at home and at work. They house audio and video equipment. So instead of trying to strap my odd PC tower case to a rack mount (and push around), why not just have a rack mounted PC? Most of the internet reacted to this idea in a very hostile way as if someone is about to commit genocide. I know about the noise, so I am not going to grab just a standard U4 server chasis. It is especially bad when we roll up doing live audio recording for events and the fans add to the noise. So I am wondering if anyone come across a rackmount case that is friendly to office use (instead of server room) or if there is any good solution? I heard liquid cooling is out of the question if the computer is mobile.I do video editing so a laptop is generally under powered. Thanks in advance.

Does FO4 have snow now? Or which mod is this from? To my knowledge only 2 mods allow you to have snow, and one of it does not have occlusion effect because it is a fake snow: a screen effect instead of what is really happening out there. It's from Vivid Weather.

Oh yeah, companions are unstoppable if you have stacks of aid supply for them. Problem is they do not have any perk to take advantage of chem use (like that stimpak perk that heals you more than 30% per hit). So unless you have so many spare or use console, they will be unstoppable, but also waste tons of stimpak. Hmmm, I am going to throw my companions a ton of chem and see how they do.

I encountered a few mods with about 5+ esp files. 3 of them are DLC and 3 of them are some compatibility with other mods. Of course this quickly spins the mod counter out of hand. So I decided to merge them with FO4Edit. Here are my problems: - I use "Deep Copy as Overwrite" the Main esp into a new file. Then deep copy from patch esp into the new file. It created identical record with identical ID instead of overwriting it seems. For instance, I try to merge Nuclear Winter's Weather ID, I got 2 identical records of "20080D NuclearWinter2" - I used "Cleaned Master Record" but still cannot remove the Master of the original esp, which defeats the whole purpose of merging. What did I do wrong?