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I've been planning a major upgrade to my build for a while. Still won't be for a little bit, but when I do I think I want to swap to ITX. However I haven't been able to find a case I want. My ideal case is basically the Ncase M1 except with support for ATX PSUs so I can keep my current one. Closest thing I can find is the Cougar QBX, but it's kind of ugly IMO. Any suggestions?

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M1 has a bracket to use full sized atx psus in exchange for a short graphics card and loss of harddrive caddy.

 

Ideally, I'd like an M1 myself lol..right now I use a Fractal Core 500 which is pretty awsome for hardware support. Specs are in profile if curious.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Mooshi said:

M1 has a bracket to use full sized atx psus in exchange for a short graphics card and loss of harddrive caddy.

 

Ideally, I'd like an M1 myself lol..right now I use a Fractal Core 500 which is pretty awsome for hardware support. Specs are in profile if curious.

Oh I didn't know that. Well I have a short GPU and only one HDD so maybe I'll just do that. Core 500 is cool but I'd rather have something slimmer.

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7 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Oh I didn't know that. Well I have a short GPU and only one HDD so maybe I'll just do that. Core 500 is cool but I'd rather have something slimmer.

Is it short enough though? It greatly reduces the size of the graphics card, down to 7.6".

If it's your 1060, it won't fit.

 

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1 minute ago, dizmo said:

Is it short enough though? It greatly reduces the size of the graphics card, down to 7.6".

If it's your 1060, it won't fit.

 

I've got one of the cute little 1060s, which is 6.8 inches :) 

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