Having thought a bout this for a few months now, I seem to find myself thinking about it again. The more and more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
Essentially getting quite annoyed about having what I call a beast of buden on my desk (HAF 912 Case) whilst I like it, I'd like something thats going to sit more neatly on my desk and be fairly silent, so if I do feel the need to leave it run over night I can.
Currently I've got an Asus M487TD USB 3 motherboard, AMD Phenom X2 555 BE and 8 gig of ram, GTX 460 GFX card, Wifi and TV card. One optical drive which I'm thinking of replacing with a Blu-Ray combo drive, 128 gig Crucial C300 and 3 x 1tb HDD's, two of which I would put into my Xeon box. PSU is an OCZ Stealth Stream 2 600 watt and I'm hoping I can take this over.
So that leaves me with a case and Mobo to sell off, which I can imagine isn't going to be that hard, I suspect the mobo will sell quite quickly, case might be a bit harder, but I think I deally I'll need to get rid of these firts before I build up the mATX rig, I've got far too many full built or half built PC's I need shifting first !
So looking for recommendations on case and a mobo, case must be able to take my current GTX 460 (Gigabyte OC2) and 1 x optical and 1 x HDD plus my SSD drive.
Hmm thinking about it, I suspect I won't be able to use my Artic Cooler Freezer Pro 2, so suggestions a good performing sensibly price cooler would be very helpful also please.
mATX is really not my area of expertise, so I shall bow down to your superior knowledge.


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