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Kyle

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Case and motherboard question
« on: July 05, 2004, 01:16:16 PM »
I have a micro atx motherboard and i'm looking into buying a new case. If the case specs say it can take a size atx motherboard will my micro atx fit?

MalikTous

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Re: Case and motherboard question
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2004, 09:11:18 PM »
On the back of the case, you will see a number of 'slot covers' or 'backplane covers'. Most MicroATX cases have 4 covers (some cheat and only have 3), and a true ATX box has 7, or occasionally 8 or 6, available slots on the back.

So long as you have the right port-cluster cover for your MicroATX MB, it will fit a full ATX case. You just move the standoffs in the case bottom around to fit. The three bottom-most slot covers are usable only to mount things like the second RS232 port, the joyport if it isn't on the port cluster, a USB or Firewire breakout module, or a sound card additional-port module, none of which actually plug into a PCI or AGP slot.