Good small cases that are not micro ATX?

[shurato]

I'm moving into a studio apt and space is very limited. I'd like to slap my spare amd 1400+mobo into a small case and get a vid card with good tv-out to use as a ghetto home theater PC. Only small cases I see are microATX or propietary type stuff. I'm not looking to spend too much money. I just want to be able to play some emulation games and some movies and play some mp3's.

What cases do you reccomend? I guess the cube shaped cases are all microATX formfactor so that's probably out of the question. Do mini tower cases come in ATX form factor? All I see are mid-tower cases. Thanks.

 

[eplebnista]

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[hans007]

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this used to be an antec case (well in beige).

i had it a while back. it might not be that great cooling wise though, but it should work. fastest thing i ever ran in it though was a slot A athlon 1000mhz (long time ago too)

 

[Zap]

Wow, two great budget choices. Note that these desktop cases as well as HTPC cases often do not have that great of cooling, so keep that in mind.

 

[Zepper]

I would suggest that one of the AMD 1400s was one of the most AMP sucking - and hottest CPUs ever - perhaps not a good match for an HTPC system... But you could look at the CoolerMaster Cavalier.

This JPAC model is a different take on a compact case for a full ATX mobo. But once again there may be cooling or PSU problems with an Athlon 1400. Unfortunately, the PSU they supply (a semi-proprietary configuration) is an L&C junk-bucket which has got to go!

.bh.