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Case with no HDD cages or DVD bays

Smeemi
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Anyone know of any nice looking ATX cases with no HDD cages or DVD bays? I am currently building a no DVD drive and HDD build. 

 

Needs to fit GTX 770 SLI and a Asus RaidR PCI-E SSD.

 

Thanks.

 

 

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5.25" = Optical Drive.

3.5" = Hard Disk Drive.

2.5" = Solid State Drive and HDDs.

 

Typically. There are exceptions. Whatever.

 

You'll be hard pressed to find cases that are larger than mITX that lack 3.5" bays. The NZXT H440 might be about as good as you can find, since it lacks 5.25" OD "DVD" bays and has stealth 3.5" bays.

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You can easily pull all of that out of an Arc Midi R2 or R4.

 

 

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@ Uh yeah I probably should've thought of that. I'm dumb. Look for cases that were designed to allow all the 5.25" and 3.5" bays to be removed.

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@ Uh yeah I probably should've thought of that. I'm dumb. Look for cases that were designed to allow all the 5.25" and 3.5" bays to be removed.

The harddrive days are easy but for 5.25" bays you're going to have to drill out rivets.

 

 

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@ In most cases, yes. Good cases like the upcoming Enthoo Pro are full of screws already, and the 5.25" bays can be removed no problem.

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@ In most cases, yes. Good cases like the upcoming Enthoo Pro are full of screws already, and the 5.25" bays can be removed no problem.

Yea but I don't think that case is ideal for this situation.

 

 

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having a 5.25" in a case isnt a bad thing in cases above matx i would suggest a fractal design r4 or the corsair 450d

 

tey can be used w/ adapters to fit a ssd and a hdd in 1 slot so i dont mind having two in mine

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Thanks guys, it is a bit annoying someone hasn't made one yet /hint /hint. Will most likely go for for the R4 or H440.

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The NZXT H440 doesn't have an optical drive bay and you can remove all the harddrive cages plus it'll fit the components you listed. Did I mention it's sexy as hell?

Same goes for the Fractal Design Define R4 and Corsair 450D but those two come with none removable 5.25 disc bays. 

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