- Feb 13, 2014
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Evening, gentlemen!
Long story short, I'm about to be doing some upgrading, and my little mini-ITX case isn't going to handle the storage array I plan on setting up.
I have a 14"W x 18"D x 22"H space I'll be putting this system in - I can find NO mid-towers which support a full ATX motherboard that are only 18" deep - everything ranges from 19.5" upwards.
I have a single GTX 980 and would like to add a second in SLI sometime in the future, so five expansion slots is appreciated; noise is no object, but I'd like to have at least two 5.25" bays - one for a disc drive, and a second for a fan controller to handle a 20W fan, possibly several. Storage involves an array of three 3.5" HDDs in RAID5 and a single SSD.
All that being said, are there any compact mid-towers or mATX towers which could handle all of this hardware? I'd planned on buying a silver Lian Li PC-A04, but there are none available to the United States. Is there any way at all to get one of these cases? Corsair's 250D looks reasonable, but I need more storage capacity than what it offers. Nanoxia's Deep Silence 4 looks amazing, but the thing is still 19" deep despite being nearly half-height, and the same goes for all of Fractal Design's 'mATX' towers.
Let's just say price isn't a problem as long as it's within reason... I'd actually like something a bit more expensive since this is pretty much the only part of this PC I'll be seeing.
Any recommendations? There has to be something out there that both fits these size constraints and is also available for sale in the US...
Much appreciated!
Long story short, I'm about to be doing some upgrading, and my little mini-ITX case isn't going to handle the storage array I plan on setting up.
I have a 14"W x 18"D x 22"H space I'll be putting this system in - I can find NO mid-towers which support a full ATX motherboard that are only 18" deep - everything ranges from 19.5" upwards.
I have a single GTX 980 and would like to add a second in SLI sometime in the future, so five expansion slots is appreciated; noise is no object, but I'd like to have at least two 5.25" bays - one for a disc drive, and a second for a fan controller to handle a 20W fan, possibly several. Storage involves an array of three 3.5" HDDs in RAID5 and a single SSD.
All that being said, are there any compact mid-towers or mATX towers which could handle all of this hardware? I'd planned on buying a silver Lian Li PC-A04, but there are none available to the United States. Is there any way at all to get one of these cases? Corsair's 250D looks reasonable, but I need more storage capacity than what it offers. Nanoxia's Deep Silence 4 looks amazing, but the thing is still 19" deep despite being nearly half-height, and the same goes for all of Fractal Design's 'mATX' towers.
Let's just say price isn't a problem as long as it's within reason... I'd actually like something a bit more expensive since this is pretty much the only part of this PC I'll be seeing.
Any recommendations? There has to be something out there that both fits these size constraints and is also available for sale in the US...
Much appreciated!
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