Planning Compaq Presario case sucks

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  1. jhanlon303

    jhanlon303 The Keeper of History

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    Upgrading my daily driver. Door is on the right as you look from front. Motherboard is upside down and mounted hard to case liner. What an awful design. Added memory and wireless N and closed it back up. No hope. Sadness.

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  2. Matticus

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    You know what you have to do John :dremel: :lol:
     
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  3. jhanlon303

    jhanlon303 The Keeper of History

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    Only empty case I have is full tower Lian-Li. Be a real waste. Let me think.
     
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  4. Matticus

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    A full tower Lian-Li with several mini ITX boards sitting horizontally on a shelving system. Every 5.25 bay filled with a pico system.

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    That is the setup I am imagining, with the vertical lines being the original motherboard tray, and the horizontal lines being shelves.

    I will be honest, I have wanted to stack up a few mini ITX systems horizontally into a regular case. But I don't have the need for several mini ITX systems, nor the space for another case, and not even the spare cash :hehe:
     
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    confusis Kiwi-modder

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  6. jhanlon303

    jhanlon303 The Keeper of History

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    Exactly the case in question. A real treasure. :duh: :sigh:
     
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  7. Cheapskate

    Cheapskate Insane? or just stupid?

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    What do they think will happen to the wires? -Oh, that's right! This is Compaq, the company infamous for hot-gluing the components to the motherboard. I'm sure they duct taped them to a safe place.
     
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  8. jrs77

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    I've got two old HP-cases around....

    Proprietary stuff like this should be banned!
     
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  9. Singularity

    Singularity ******* Operator from Hell

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    I wouldn't say proprietary, looks to me like regular reverse ATX. And I for one like reverse ATX... not as good as BTX, but hey... :)

    Tho, if they went with non-ATX motherboard mounts, then yeah - bummer...
     
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