Downsizing from ATX

Hyburnate · 26 Jul 2012 at 00:58

I can never seem to keep a case for too long, and I am running out of space for a full ATX Case so I'm wanting to down size from ATX to M-ITX or M-ATX for a while.
Now this won't be for long, I also have a m-itx case however I'm wanting to run this as a NAS so at the moment I'm going to want to buy a budget ITX Case something like the Prodigy's price however I was told that the Prodigy wouldn't hold my TX750M as there isn't enough space for the un-modular cables.

So I will probably need to get a new case, motherboard and cpu cooler.

So spec me

Current Specs:
P67 Fatal1ty Motherboard ATX
i5 2500k
8GB RAM G.Skill RipJaws (can't remember the speed) (Soon to be 16GB)
EVGA GTX460 1GB
TX750WM

I am running this on OEM Windows so I will have to buy a copy again, right?

No budget just nothing stupid.

bremen1874 · 26 Jul 2012 at 03:34

Hyburnate said:
I am running this on OEM Windows so I will have to buy a copy again, right?

For personal use you shouldn’t have any issues reusing an OEM licence (assuming it’s a generic unbranded version).

You’ll be in breach of the licensing terms, but almost every OEM licence purchased by an individual for their own use is going to be invalid from day one anyway.

Hyburnate · 26 Jul 2012 at 07:05

bremen1874 said:
For personal use you shouldn’t have any issues reusing an OEM licence (assuming it’s a generic unbranded version).

You’ll be in breach of the licensing terms, but almost every OEM licence purchased by an individual for their own use is going to be invalid from day one anyway.

Thanks ^^
Well if I do run into any trouble my mate told me he could get me a legit key from DreamSpark so its all good ^^

I either downsize or just upgrade graphics card and get an ssd. So any spec's will be helpful so I can decide