Any known mITX Cases that will support a mATX motherboard?

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Lifer
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Looking to pick up an Asrock J3355M motherboard (Intel Apollo Lake low powered atom CPU/MB) since I have desktop DDR3 lying around. Asrock also makes a mITX board that supports laptop DDR3 but obviously I don't want to buy any more DDR3 sticks.

Wondering if there are any mITX cases that could fit this motherboard. It obviously won't need much cooling since it's low powered. I would also get an external pico PSU so that I don't have to cram a PSU into a case.

Can someone sanity check me or let me know if this is possible?

Motherboard in question
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157730
 
Feb 25, 2011
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Yup. What they said. A mini-itx case that supports microATX motherboards is called a microATX case.
 

cbn

Lifer
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and yet, for some reason, a mini-itx case that supports mini-dtx is called a mini-itx case.

That is true, dual expansion slot* Mini-ITX is Mini-DTX compatible.

And the Mini-DTX motherboard will be called Micro-ATX by the manufacturer and retailers like Newegg (Example here).

*Without using a riser.
 
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Lifer
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I thought there could be an off chance that a matx board could fit in an itx case if a huge power supply wasn't installed. I see some designs where I *think* it could be done as the motherboard sits right next to the power supply but was hoping someone had made that attempt before me doing a $50-100 science project :)