After seing how nice wood would look as a computer case, I made another one. This time for my Synthesia machine, which is a Core i5-3330S salvaged from an old broken AIO given to me, on an Intel Desktop Board DQ77KB Thin-Mini-ITX form factor. Before this, it used to be bolted onto a scrapy-looking plexiglass piece.

I am very happy with the result this time. The wood grain looks great; the CPU fan now works as both a case fan and a CPU fan, cooling down the voltage regulators and the PCH better than before; it feels good when held in one hand; and it looks more like a piece of furniture than something from an EE lab. This is one of the things that need to be wood and not clear acrylic.