My setup is about 3 years old now and I want to move it to a smaller case. It's currently in a full ATX tower, but it is a little too big for my tastes and, since I haven't done any computer tinkering in a while, I kind of want to move it to a smaller case.
Specs are as follows:
Full ATX case w/ 5 case fans
Asus P4P800 motherboard
Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
1024MB DDR2 RAM
2 160GB SATA drives
1 200 GB IDE Drive
1 100 GB IDE Drive
Radeon 9800 Pro (128mb)
Lite-On DVD Drive
Lite-On DVD+/-RW Drive
Will all of this fit in a mid ATX case and still remain relatively cool?
When I initially built this rig, I had it in a mid ATX case but the motherboard ramped the CPU fan speed up so much that it literally sounded like a lawnmower, so I moved to the beast of a case I currently have. Since then, I added this fan/heatsink combo for the heck of it, so I'm guessing that this could all probably fit in a mid ATX case now. The hard drives seem like the only thing that could be a problem, but I could lose one of those if absolutely necessary. Also, if all of this could fit in a mid ATX case, is there a better CPU fan/heatsink combo that someone could recommend? I want to stick with relatively simple air cooling, if possible.
Thanks.
Specs are as follows:
Full ATX case w/ 5 case fans
Asus P4P800 motherboard
Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
1024MB DDR2 RAM
2 160GB SATA drives
1 200 GB IDE Drive
1 100 GB IDE Drive
Radeon 9800 Pro (128mb)
Lite-On DVD Drive
Lite-On DVD+/-RW Drive
Will all of this fit in a mid ATX case and still remain relatively cool?
When I initially built this rig, I had it in a mid ATX case but the motherboard ramped the CPU fan speed up so much that it literally sounded like a lawnmower, so I moved to the beast of a case I currently have. Since then, I added this fan/heatsink combo for the heck of it, so I'm guessing that this could all probably fit in a mid ATX case now. The hard drives seem like the only thing that could be a problem, but I could lose one of those if absolutely necessary. Also, if all of this could fit in a mid ATX case, is there a better CPU fan/heatsink combo that someone could recommend? I want to stick with relatively simple air cooling, if possible.
Thanks.