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Baby-AT/mATX case recommendation needed
I need a small tower case that supports *both* Baby-AT motherboards *and*
Micro ATX motherboads. I'm putting a basic system together for my mother-in-law using an Asus P5A-B motherboard now, but will upgrade her system with a Micro ATX/AthlonXP combo which I will have available after Christmas. The case can have an ATX power supply in it (because the P5A-B supports AT or ATX power supplies), but I need a case that comes with two backplates, one to accommmodate the P5A-B's AT form factor and one for the future ATX form factor. Any recommendations? |
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Hackworth wrote:
future ATX form factor. Any recommendations? ATX is not only in the future. ATX has been dominant for something like six years. Maybe you mean you need one that works with both ATX and Micro ATX. If a case works for Micro ATX, it also works for ATX, unless I am wrong. More at formfactors.org. |
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Matt wrote:
Hackworth wrote: future ATX form factor. Any recommendations? ATX is not only in the future. ATX has been dominant for something like six years. Maybe you mean you need one that works with both ATX and Micro ATX. If a case works for Micro ATX, it also works for ATX, unless I am wrong. It's the other way around as mATX is the shorter version of ATX. I.E. If it'll hold a full size ATX then the shorted mATX will also fit. More at formfactors.org. |
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David Maynard wrote:
Matt wrote: Hackworth wrote: future ATX form factor. Any recommendations? ATX is not only in the future. ATX has been dominant for something like six years. Maybe you mean you need one that works with both ATX and Micro ATX. If a case works for Micro ATX, it also works for ATX, unless I am wrong. It's the other way around as mATX is the shorter version of ATX. I.E. If it'll hold a full size ATX then the shorted mATX will also fit. Whoops, yes, of course. |
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Matt wrote:
David Maynard wrote: Matt wrote: Hackworth wrote: future ATX form factor. Any recommendations? ATX is not only in the future. ATX has been dominant for something like six years. Maybe you mean you need one that works with both ATX and Micro ATX. If a case works for Micro ATX, it also works for ATX, unless I am wrong. It's the other way around as mATX is the shorter version of ATX. I.E. If it'll hold a full size ATX then the shorted mATX will also fit. Whoops, yes, of course. Btw, WRT his original question, a Baby AT will fit in a mATX case (but mATX won't go in a Baby AT case), and I've got the plates for an Antec (both with and without the PS2 mouse port), but I don't know if any case manufacturer is just automatically supplying them with new cases now days. Considering how old AT is I'd suspect not. |
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"Matt" wrote in message ... Hackworth wrote: future ATX form factor. Any recommendations? ATX is not only in the future. ATX has been dominant for something like six years. Matt, I'm afraind you misunderstood my original post. Perhaps I wasn't veyr clear. By "future," I meant the mATX motherboard that I intend to install in her computer after Christmas. Right now, all I have for her is a Baby-AT format motherboard. I guess what I really need is a case that comes with both an ATX backplate *and* an AT backplate. Maybe you mean you need one that works with both ATX and Micro ATX. If a case works for Micro ATX, it also works for ATX, unless I am wrong. More at formfactors.org. |
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Hackworth wrote:
"Matt" wrote in message ... Hackworth wrote: future ATX form factor. Any recommendations? ATX is not only in the future. ATX has been dominant for something like six years. Matt, I'm afraind you misunderstood my original post. Perhaps I wasn't veyr clear. By "future," I meant the mATX motherboard that I intend to install in her computer after Christmas. Right now, all I have for her is a Baby-AT format motherboard. I guess what I really need is a case that comes with both an ATX backplate *and* an AT backplate. Oh heck, for that short a period of time don't bother with a backplate. Just put the baby AT in without one. Technically it'll leak some EMI but I doubt you'd notice it and it would be no worse than folks who knock out the 5 1/4 inch bay plates and then don't use them all. Except for some 'convenience' knock outs for serial and parallel ports, which your baby AT probably provides PCI slot plates for anyway, the only thing in an AT cover plate is a single hole for the keyboard connector. So, if you are paranoid about EMI, you could simply cut a wire screen to fit and snip a hole into it for that one keyboard connector, but I wouldn't even bother with that. Maybe you mean you need one that works with both ATX and Micro ATX. If a case works for Micro ATX, it also works for ATX, unless I am wrong. More at formfactors.org. |
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