Smallest ATX case

Viral · 2 May 2006 at 01:46

Can anybody let me know the smallest ATX case they have seen that is also good quality like a Lian Li as I am not going to fit 4 optical drives in my pc or more than 2 HDD's so I do not want to buy a full tower case.

KizZ · 2 May 2006 at 01:48

There you go

Next time make sure you search

Yewen · 2 May 2006 at 01:53

Wow, 3 threads with the same name!

How much easier can you get

Viral · 2 May 2006 at 01:58

Wow that was easy

So either a Super Lanboy or a Silverstone

Yewen · 2 May 2006 at 02:02

The silverstone is a little cheap, fronts nice.

The PC7 is small, just read the threads, already been said 3x+

Viral · 2 May 2006 at 02:32

Which Silverstone is a little cheap?

Yewen · 2 May 2006 at 02:35

TJ08, internally it is not up to the standards that Silverstone usually set. Not a bad case but it is the worst built one they have made.

Viral · 2 May 2006 at 02:38

Oh right, well this a a little bigger I guess but what about either a Coolermaster Centurion 5 or a Thermaltake Black mambo

Yewen · 2 May 2006 at 02:40

Getting into the same size as a PC7 then

Mambo is not to bad, would avoid the coolermaster as the support at the moment is atrocious at best. Seriously poor.

KizZ · 2 May 2006 at 02:42

Go for a Lanboy if you want to have a small and light case. Or the PC7+.

Viral · 2 May 2006 at 02:42

Thanks a lot for your help mate, I just want a case thats got a 120mm front and rear fan for good cooling and that will alow me to fit a Arctic Freezer 64 onto a DFi Lanparty NF4 mobo without any bother, oh and it must be fairly quiet too.

Yewen · 2 May 2006 at 02:45

80mm offers good cooling aswell!

The only reason you have 120mm fans is so they can spin slower, and thus be quieter. That is the reason we changed to 120mm fans not necissarily for better cooling.

The mid range 80mm and 120mm fans push roughly the same amount of air, just the 120mm manage it at a fair bit less noise.

Viral · 2 May 2006 at 02:48

Excatly I do not like noise. I have just discovered the Silverstone TJ04A and it looks lovely, what do you think?

Yewen · 2 May 2006 at 02:52

It wants to be a ATC-Tek MRO 16 to much, built ok but nothing smashing and not as good value as the PC7+II which overshadows it. Very good case, would be mentioned in most threads were a case called the PC7+II about.

The Lian Li beats it at all points bar looks as they are subjective. The Lian Li looks better in person, where the TJ04 (in black as all I have seen) has a clumsy front panel to rest of case transition that spoils its appearance to me personally.

Viral · 2 May 2006 at 03:15

I cannot find any PC7+II anywhere here in Canada.

Yewen · 2 May 2006 at 03:26

Lian Li PC7+ but the 120mm/120mm version, most in the UK are shipped as the +II version if not all now if they are marked up as the old or not.

It may be the PC7se over where you are, but most likely the PC7+.

glitch · 3 May 2006 at 09:11

Viral said:
Can anybody let me know the smallest ATX case they have seen that is also good quality like a Lian Li as I am not going to fit 4 optical drives in my pc or more than 2 HDD's so I do not want to buy a full tower case.

The Antec P150 is pretty small inside. Certainly smaller than the PC7, but maybe not to your taste.