Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Help with this pc case?

My friend wants me to build him a pc, so i asked him if he had cash, he said yeah but hes got a 1k budget though, so i said ok and pulled up buy.om, searched for a motherboard that fits his needs (hes not really smart with computers so he dont need much..), then after that i explained to him what it had and such, and he said that it sounded good, then i asked him what he was going to use it for, he just said games, so i put the minimum i could in it to save him cash (3 gigs of ram, 2.3 ghz core i7(the lowest one there), a 200 gig HDD, ect. so then after everything was picked, the case was last, so he looked for about an hour and found this cheap, but futuristic one, so i looked at its size, and the motherboards size, its big enough in the dimensions, but it says its a ATX case and the motherboards form factor is EATX. This is the case (GMC GMCX7BL X-7 X-Station Middle Tower ATX Case - Black - azt-gmcx7-bl) take it and type it in buy.com's search(putting a link isnt working..). So i need to know, will it work? if not is there a case just like it but fitted for EATX boards? i dont want to have to tell him he cant get that case because he really wants that one. So if it will fit tell me. If it wont tell me if theres one like it but to its fitting. And if both are a no then tell me what case will support it.


ThankyouHelp with this pc case?
the case your friend has chosen is big enough by far for an EATX motherboard. the difference in size of motherboards is this


ATX: length 12';, depth 9.6';


EATX: length 12';, depth 10.4';


the length is standardized to 12'; (this means 7 extension slots) and the difference of 0.8'; in depth is absolutely no problem. my case has the same size and there are tons of space in that direction.





the only concern could be the distance between the mounting holes. i don't know if these are the same for ATX and EATX but if this case is fairly new it should also support EATX mobos.

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