Horizontal case for existing ATX hardware

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So, atm i have what i believe to be a standard size ATX upright case... measuring 45cm high, 20cm wide and 48cm deep,

I'm re-doing my room to fit a 55 inch tv in it... and will basically have lots of desktop surface area and not much upright area that my existing upright case will fit into well anymore.

I know i could just lay my case on it's side, but i really want a case that's designed to sit horizontally and be a little less deep if possible, under 45cm front to back at least.


Inside it will be :
Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 main board,
GTX 1060 GFX card,
OCZ-ZS750W psu
A pcie wifi card,
i have zero dvd/cd/floppy drives, just a standard sized SSD drive... so all the space at the front of my existing case is being wasted except for the SSD sitting in one bay, and that could be mounted elsewhere easilly.
The cpu cooler doesnt stick out any further than the GFX card does... it''s all air cooled

Oh, and the case must be black, no fancy led's or owt tho.

Any recomendations?
 
Well, i did a bit of searching, and found that 'QuietPC' is just down the road from me... amazing as i live near scarborough and there's nothing near me usually,

They were selling the 'Jonsbo G3 Home Theater PC Chassis' for £74, i loved how it looks like an AV amp, it will go nice with my 'real' AV amp when i re-do my room and have a set of shelves with the AV amp and PS4 on one shelf, and below it will be the PC and centre speaker for the dolby atmos system i'm getting for xmas (with a new AV amp)

AV-amp-n-PC-case.jpg


The 'VFD' type display in the case is a fake... it's a LED backlight with a punched card over it to make it look like a dot matrix display... BUT i have plans to take the real VFD from the old AV amp that i'm using now, and with the help of an arduino i'll integrate it into the system, so it can display system temps, OC speeds and so on.

Looking for a modular PSU now tho, as my existing one has so many cables i dont use it's a mess and will impede airflow a bit.
 
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