ATX cases with little depth

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I'm after a small, full atx case that has as little depth as possible. Basically height doesn't matter so much, footprint front to back does.
Anyone happen to know of a particularly... "thin" case?
 

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I've got a Fractal Define C, both that and the meshify C have a depth / length of 395mm (meshify prolly slightly shorter since no front panel). Doubt you'll find anything much shorter as your limited by the size of the motherboard mostly.
 

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Ohhh you can go a lot smaller than a Meshify C :D

https://www.sfftime.com/product-page/p-atx-white
https://www.sliger.com/products/cases/cerberus_x/
https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/introducing-the-chimera-cx2.12171/

EDIT: I got depth and width mixed up. Still, there's a good ~5cm reduction possible vs the Meshify.

The reason ATX cases don't tend to be shorter than ~350mm is because of GPU support. Even in SFF cases, most manufacturers are targeting 320-330mm GPUs. You could have an ATX case that's ~260mm deep if the fans were relocated from the front to somewhere else. But you'd then be limited to <250mm graphics cards.
 
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The thinnest ATX case is probably The Thermaltat Core G3, but that needs an SFX PSU and its thermaltat so i wouldnt get it anyway.

After that it would be cheap cases, as they are smaller to save cost and dont have the depth behind the motherboard, something like the Bitfenix Nova

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £44.09 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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Kurgen said:
The thinnest ATX case is probably The Thermaltat Core G3, but that needs an SFX PSU and its thermaltat so i wouldnt get it anyway.

After that it would be cheap cases, as they are smaller to save cost and dont have the depth behind the motherboard, something like the Bitfenix Nova

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £44.09 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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You've done the same thing I did :p OP was asking for shallow, rather than thin. Short front-to-back measurements, rather than side-to-side.
 
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