Nice case.
I saw the same one at Newegg while I was browsing them earlier. Seems like they had several colors - and it seems like the price was less. Don't feel like looking for it again to tell you the truth. There are several hundred different cases at newegg. Browse all cases, then sort by price. Start with the $50 models and then work backward. I never looked at any cases over fifty bucks - and I know I saw that same case.
Yep. Any ATX motherboard should fit into any ATX case. When you see a prefix added to 'ATX' - 'micro-ATX', for example, it's a different size than the plain ol' 'ATX'. A small micro-ATX case won't hold a big ATX motherboard, but a big ATX case will hold a small micro-ATX motherboard.
ATX-size cases are by far the most common, because ATX-size motherboards are by far the most common. They come in many different varieties; Tower, Mid-Tower, Mini-Tower, desktop. The only difference in the tower models is the number of drive bays.
'micro-ATX' cases are typically half the dimensions of ATX cases. Usually there will be room for only one optical drive (sometimes mounted sideways to save width) and one hard drive.
I don't know what the initials 'ATX' stand for. Maybe somebody else does. I do know the whole PC world still revolves around standards based on a a decade-old IBM PC/AT.
The next generation of peecee hardware will be more compact in size. Something along the lines of 'mini-ITX' using a 6" x 6" motherboard. Like those Shuttle cases.
oh yeah. here's a nice power supply comparison. The lesson: Don't trust the advertised output rating of power supplies.
"THG took a close look at 13 power supplies rated higher than 400 Watts. The test showed that lines supplying the system with +3.3, +5 and +12 Volt lines generated, on average, 20 Watts less overall power than was promised by the product name or product branding."
http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20030609/index.html
I saw the same one at Newegg while I was browsing them earlier. Seems like they had several colors - and it seems like the price was less. Don't feel like looking for it again to tell you the truth. There are several hundred different cases at newegg. Browse all cases, then sort by price. Start with the $50 models and then work backward. I never looked at any cases over fifty bucks - and I know I saw that same case.
Yep. Any ATX motherboard should fit into any ATX case. When you see a prefix added to 'ATX' - 'micro-ATX', for example, it's a different size than the plain ol' 'ATX'. A small micro-ATX case won't hold a big ATX motherboard, but a big ATX case will hold a small micro-ATX motherboard.
ATX-size cases are by far the most common, because ATX-size motherboards are by far the most common. They come in many different varieties; Tower, Mid-Tower, Mini-Tower, desktop. The only difference in the tower models is the number of drive bays.
'micro-ATX' cases are typically half the dimensions of ATX cases. Usually there will be room for only one optical drive (sometimes mounted sideways to save width) and one hard drive.
I don't know what the initials 'ATX' stand for. Maybe somebody else does. I do know the whole PC world still revolves around standards based on a a decade-old IBM PC/AT.
The next generation of peecee hardware will be more compact in size. Something along the lines of 'mini-ITX' using a 6" x 6" motherboard. Like those Shuttle cases.
oh yeah. here's a nice power supply comparison. The lesson: Don't trust the advertised output rating of power supplies.
"THG took a close look at 13 power supplies rated higher than 400 Watts. The test showed that lines supplying the system with +3.3, +5 and +12 Volt lines generated, on average, 20 Watts less overall power than was promised by the product name or product branding."
http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20030609/index.html