The Senile Doctor

specs : it should be
1.as small as possible for normal mobo (asus nforce2)
2.aluminium

casecooling : not important, one or two 80mm fans will be enough.it needs to be very silent
space : not necessary.
only thing in there will be a mx440/two harddisks and one cdrom.
nothing else

do any of you have an interesting case in mind?

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Bosw8er

What's the priority ?
Small or silent or looks

I think a Micro ATX format would be satisfactory as you don't need 6 pci-slots.

Why 2 disks ? Buy a 80GB Seagate: sufficient space and silent.

Why don't you choose a Shuttle Cube ?

Snobs can always put a LianLi sticker on it
http://www.aopen.com/products/housing/A340-series.htm

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TeuS

that superflower case perhaps?

jmke

MicroATX it can't be

LianLi has a mini/midi-tower that looks quite good & is pretty small

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Bosw8er

The doc is probably unaware of something like a micro atx formfactor ... a formfactor which is probably more then sufficient for his needs and permits to use very small cases.

A-open ATX case: 420mm(D)x198mm(W)x414mm(H)

A-open Micro Atx case: 399mm(D)x324mm(W)x95(H)

jmke

if he wants to fit a nForce2 mobo.. microATX will be too small no?

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Bosw8er

Aha, good point !
I cannot find a micro-atx n-force board ... yet.

But let's wait for what calantak has to say.

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The Senile Doctor

microatx is out of the question, and yes I am aware of that
small lian li? mm let me look into that

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jmke

aha!
http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=482
MicroATX nForce2 cube!

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EasyB

That last Shuttle cube goes for about 450 euro and has been released yesterday, so it won't be easy to find.

Another slick solution is this motherboard

http://users.pandora.be/EasyB/BiostarM7NCD.jpg Okay, it's Biostar, but it's small and it's nforce2, and it should be released soon.

cramped into this case:

http://users.pandora.be/EasyB/PC9300.jpg Lian-Li, aluminium and +/- 150€ at CrazyCamel.


But since µAtx is not an option, the next cool solution would be either:



or



Both Lian-Li, both small and both have all the space you need.

Sorry about all the links but i couldn't insert the pics directly

EasyB