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that wont work as they are both the same size
the psu wont fit beside the mobo unless i have the fan blowing onto the tv cards
would that be alright?
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surely psu internal fans would suck rather than blow - they are certainly intended to
there should be no problems with the psu acceptign heat from other system components - this is one of the primary purposes of the internal fan accordign to the atx spec
this case seems to have a hell of a lot of psu mounting options
there should be no problems with the psu acceptign heat from other system components - this is one of the primary purposes of the internal fan accordign to the atx spec
this case seems to have a hell of a lot of psu mounting options
i have the cit psu recomened and it is a good psu and its a good 1 as its flush all round its not silent but not very loud i have just changed my cpu cooler Ruby Orb P/N: CL-P0391 only runs at 17db and you can slightly lower that it also cools everything around it i am goining to change my case as well as the 1 i have now is a good case but they have put the psu at the front so you can hear it so going for this 1 Shiny Piano Black/Red Super Slim Micro ATX Mini Tower Case - With 200W PSU 20+4pin 1x SATA - Ebuyer
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If its the Mobo in post 53 then it is Matx, A full size atx would have more pci/pcix slots, yours only has 2 pci, one full pcix and one small pcix
The Asus M3A78-VM is a micro ATX.
The original board (M3A78-PRO) Gav spec'ed for himself would have been a full size ATX board.
Not according to the images in post 53?
(Although its academic as both the m3a78-vm and m3n78-vm are mATX
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charlieram
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Why don't you just buy a smaller PSU?
The PSU will foul the Z600 cooler in the Maplin case but other than that should be fine.
Actually scrap that I've just see the layout of the ibox case: http://www.icute.com.tw/english/iBox.htm
Its very cramped, but it should all fit in...
Its very cramped, but it should all fit in...
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Dam it, forgot about the Z600! Have just double checked the pictures, the cable cards will fit, the Z600 won't. Even if you cut the mesh above where the CPU would go that cooler will still foul the PSU...
To use that cooler it does seem you are going to have to go for a tower case.
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**** it i'll stick the z600 in my big pc
will it not pull the motherboard off its mounts though if its in a tower case?
right what cooler should i go for now?
soeverything and a cooler should fit in that case, inc the psu
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will it not pull the motherboard off its mounts though if its in a tower case?
right what cooler should i go for now?
soeverything and a cooler should fit in that case, inc the psu
Cheers
MFCGAVMFC
Wonko has his z600 fitted in a tower case, so I'll let him reply to that bit.
The icute case is divided by the hinging part, as such the division the motherboard sits in allows a full height PCI card but not much more. Working from the fact a PCI card is just over 100mm tall, a Scythe Shuriken should fit: Scythe Shuriken Quiet Low Profile Socket 1366, 478, 775, 754, 939, AM2 Processor Cooler - Ebuyer but you'll have to have the fan running (you can replace it with a Noctua at a later date).
Being very critical and worse case scenario...
The PSU may foul on where the hard drives mount. Even if it doesn't, it may prevent you from being able to comfortably attach the cables to the hard drive.
You should be able to remove the cage to make the PSU fit (should the need arise). A 3.5" To 5.25" Hard Disk Drive Mounting Bracket would allow you to fit the hard drive in the unused 5.25" optical bay. Worth noting that the card reader bay under where the optical drives fit may also afford the installation of a hard drive so you might want to try that before buying the adapater.
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whilst it's big it's far from the heaviest hsf I have seen - provided you mount it properly there is no issue with it being too heavy if the board is vertical - in fact given the relative scarcity of desktop cases these days i would imagine this is the way most of them are mounted
btw cit 400w psu's are not good value for money - they are unstable and do not deliver enough power for a modern system - eg I had a problem with the psu in one of my systems so as a temprary measure fitted a new cit 400w psu to it until I could afford a proper psu - it couldnt reliably start the system - the system crashed so frequently I began to suspect the mainboard was dying - replaced cit 400w with an old anonymous 250w psu out of mates junk box and system has been fine ever since - to such an extent i have never goot round to buying another psu for it (system pulls around 120w measured at the plug socket and a cit 400w couldnt power it - says a lot for the quality of cit psu's doesnt it)
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