Well - I thought I post a pic of our mining rigs as they come together. Keep in mind this is being put together with Scrypt mining in mind, not bitcoin. I've been given plenty of opinions about the fact its a bit "late" to get into gpu mining. However looking at the math and knowing I'm mainly going at this from a scrypt mining route I believe I have a seutp that will be profitable quite soon. I plan on keeping daily logs of energy useage, income, etc. So if anyone has questions in the next month or two - feel free to shoot me a message and I"ll be glad to share any and all information! 
That said... This is our basic setup for now. I am a mechanical engineering student and am working on a server rack type setup with my teacher in Solidworks. Once I have a setup I am happy with, I will move on to building it. I hope to have that completed in the next 45 days. 60 at the most. So with that in mind we wanted to start out with something simple. I'm doing this as a partnership with my buddy who while be keeping the rigs at his house. He does have small children so we do want to keep the rigs somewhat enclosed while being able to have adequate cooling since scrypt mining requires the use of memory which is only goingn to increase heat production for sure. We want to be able to put at least 4 cards in these rigs to start, with the hope to get to 5 if needed. We could not find crates big enough so after we found crates we liked, I simply cut out a side and merged them together. Since we needed something to mount the motherboard to, we added a piece of piece of acrylic (plexiglass) We then drilled holes for the MB standoffs and threaded those into the acrylic. From there, everything was mounted up. We now have a working box, ready for the 7970's with Arctic Accelero coolers that are currently in FedEx's custody on their way to my buddy's house.
Its been a really fun project thus far, that's for sure!
That said... This is our basic setup for now. I am a mechanical engineering student and am working on a server rack type setup with my teacher in Solidworks. Once I have a setup I am happy with, I will move on to building it. I hope to have that completed in the next 45 days. 60 at the most. So with that in mind we wanted to start out with something simple. I'm doing this as a partnership with my buddy who while be keeping the rigs at his house. He does have small children so we do want to keep the rigs somewhat enclosed while being able to have adequate cooling since scrypt mining requires the use of memory which is only goingn to increase heat production for sure. We want to be able to put at least 4 cards in these rigs to start, with the hope to get to 5 if needed. We could not find crates big enough so after we found crates we liked, I simply cut out a side and merged them together. Since we needed something to mount the motherboard to, we added a piece of piece of acrylic (plexiglass) We then drilled holes for the MB standoffs and threaded those into the acrylic. From there, everything was mounted up. We now have a working box, ready for the 7970's with Arctic Accelero coolers that are currently in FedEx's custody on their way to my buddy's house.
Its been a really fun project thus far, that's for sure!