Looking for a small ATX case

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Vagrant Storm

Discussion Starter · Oct 27, 2008

Any one know off hand of a really small case that will fit a full sized ATX motherboard? I have put another server together and I want to put it at my desk in the closet meant to hold a computer...but it is only big enough to hold the micro sized cases.

I will be modding it for airflow and hard drive bays...so i am not worried about that. Right now I just have the mother board on an old remove-able mother board tray with the PSU, optical drive and hard drives just laying in there. Which normally would be fine, but I have a 13 month old daughter and I'd rather not have to child proof the door on my desk.

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vis213

· #2 · Oct 28, 2008

Antec 300 would do you good. Full ATX, good airflow and lots of HDD slots

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aksthem1

· #3 · Oct 28, 2008

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Originally Posted by vis213

Antec 300 would do you good. Full ATX, good airflow and lots of HDD slots

Still a bit big.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811112130

This might do.

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LiquidForce

· #4 · Oct 28, 2008

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Originally Posted by vis213

Antec 300 would do you good. Full ATX, good airflow and lots of HDD slots

+1 i got one and its plenty roomy, plenty of HD/optical bays, cable management bay on the other side of the hd bays, psu on the bottom, 3 120mm fans and a 140 on top, its got great airflow and it wont break the bank. pick one up at the local microcenter if you can or just order one online there roughly 50$ maybe a little more.

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RonindeBeatrice

· #5 · Oct 28, 2008

Some really nice super-small full ATX cases would be the Lian Li A05, V-600, and G50.

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Aawa

· #6 · Oct 28, 2008

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Originally Posted by aksthem1

Still a bit big.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811112130

This might do.

I like the lian li case askthem recommended. I will advise though if you plan on ever upgrading to a gtx 260/280 the card will be too long and but into the harddrive cage. And you will have to move the cage to be able to fit the vid card. It will however fit the 8800gt/gts without a problem though.

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Vagrant Storm

Discussion Starter · #7 · Oct 28, 2008

the case needs to be less then 17" (43cm) tall I could probally fit three cases across if I wanted to, but I am really limited on hight.

The antec 300 is a little over 18 inches...too tall. It was one of the first cases I thought of. I am probally just going to have to figure out how to child proof this door with out murdering my desk.

well I am going to keep searching for a case as well. It is justa very slow process bringing up the specs of all the cases.

It will only be for web server usage. It will probally never have any thing better then the X300 I have in there now so size of components won't be an issue. Being able to fit at least three hard drives would be a plus, but I will make it work if it doesn't at first

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