I need a case for......

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An Asus A7V333-R with the optional firewire and USB I/O port support. I do not know if Asus will send a backing plate. I need a case that will house this and grow a raid set up and the power to run it.

I have access to in-win,enlight,case edge, and others. I need a beige box for the already purchased DVD and CD/RW and floppy drive.

Any recomendations?

 

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Bump---------I really could use some help here.

 

[mechBgon]

May I suggest an Antec SX1240. It has fan-cooled positions for up to six hard drives as well as six 5.25" bays you could use for hot-swap trays. The other thing that's nice is that if you DID have a DVD drive and a CD-RW drive, you've still got enough 5.25" bays for a 3-disk SCSI RAID5 plus either a tape drive or a fourth SCSI drive as a hot spare. And with the 92mm exhaust position in the upper rear, you can actually get all that heat out of the attic. Besides the 92mm, there are five 80mm positions not counting the PSU itself.

Antec's 400W PP412X power supply is respectable, with 245W of combined 3.3V + 5V power, or you can buy an Antec SX1200 (no PSU) and put in some other PSU of your choosing.

 

[mechBgon]

Oh, and I forgot to address the FireWire and USB question, but I happen to have the A7V333-R myself and it does come with a FireWire rear plate (with one standard FW outlet and one Sony i-Link FW outlet, you can pick one or the other). It also has an outlet plate for USB 2.0, and the I/O panel has two USB 1.1 and two USB 2.0 ports on it (they do send a custom I/O shield to accomplish this).

The onboard FW header does not jive well with the front-FW outlet on Antec's PerformancePlus and PerformanceII cases, by the way. I did a brain dump of all the A7V333 knowledge I thought might be useful, and you can find that here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=804993

photo of goodies that come with A7V333-R

 

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mechBgon

You are a God send. Thanks for the update and photo. I am upgrading a customer who was sold an amptron sytem with all-in-one athlon w/ddr, to this high end mobo with all the whips and whistles. I would rather use his case and upgrade the PSU then spend extra for a new case, IF his case is suitable. If that I/O plate fits in(and I'm sure it will) I will then have that option. I am only providing him with a mobo and XP2200+ with HS/Fan and I'll install and port over all his peripherals and HDD.

I just installed a CUV4x-D with dual PIII 850s. Dang,it goes fast too. My Dnet RC5 work units doubled with that sys on board.

I will soon build a dual Athlon MP just to see what it will do. I love computers.