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New Retro Case - A bit pricey but very clever

Makefile said:
"Reverse-stealth" builds do work out ok in cases that don't block boards over 9.6" wide--like this one. The FLP02 would be a beige option if it really takes 13" wide boards.

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After further review, absolute max is 14 1/2 long side & 11 1/2 short side. Long side being where your keyboard plugs in.
Here's s shot of my Gigabyte X470 Aorus that I just installed and there is plenty of room on the board's perimeter.
 

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If you use an EATX board, you will cover the side cable access holes from the looks of it. EATX is 12"x13" compared to ATX which is 12"x 9.6"
 
Unknown_K said:
If you use an EATX board, you will cover the side cable access holes from the looks of it. EATX is 12"x13" compared to ATX which is 12"x 9.6"
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Correct. This evening I completed installing the X470 mobo, PSU and 3080ti video card and there was ample room for all. One would have to be extremely creative to get an EATX mobo in this case and properly fitted out. As it were, I had to removed one of HD mounting brackets to make room for the longer 3080ti. As a note, I'm using a Seasonic 850w PSU and there is more than enough room, no bunching of cables. Very nice design feature. So far I'm happy.
 
Quagmire said:
After further review, absolute max is 14 1/2 long side & 11 1/2 short side. Long side being where your keyboard plugs in.
Here's s shot of my Gigabyte X470 Aorus that I just installed and there is plenty of room on the board's perimeter.
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Thanks for checking. You could likely fit an AT Super7 era board in here with no problem. And one of those mini 386dx-40 boards would fit very easily. But good to know that a VLB board, or one with a COAST slot, wouldn't fit.
 
Still undergoing some final tweaks, waiting on stuff for the expansion panels on the back. Man, that is a cool looking case. Filled it up with new parts.

Too bad the shades of beige and gray don't match, but then again, that's a problem on my 1980s and 1990s computers too... so it's authentic!

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The real trick was fitting a 120x360 radiator in the top of the case AND fill all 4 bays. The top bay with the front panel controls wasn't going to fit as-is, so I removed the electronics from the board and the forward-most 120mm fan. I had to build some rail mounts for that front panel to get it in there without any collisions, but I made it happen.

We'll see how well the adapters for the floppy drives play in Linux, I'm marching into uncharted territory there. I felt like the graphics card support arm wasn't as long as it should have been, but I made it work.

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Unknown_K said:
I wonder if people are going to want reproductions of the cool ATX cases we had over the years as well (which should be easier to do).
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Well I would like a reproduction of my old InWin Q500 case. After our house fire I probably *could* have salvaged it, but I had the mistaken delusion I'd be able to find a replacement. By the time I started looking, any chance of that was long gone (I should have saved the 5.25" floppy as well).

My primary system (Ryzen7 on a p.o.s. MSI motherboard, now dead) went in an old IBM X3200 HMC (Hardware Management Console) case. Looking at the board in it I had thought it was just an EATX motherboard, but all but 2 mounting points were in different places. And the I/O shield was shorter and wider than the standard ATX one (I had to cut the opening taller, and just put up with the open space on the sides). And then had ti re-work the wiring of the connector for the front panel (lights and power switch).

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My main system (non-gaming) is a i3-9100f Gigabyte Z390-UD motherboard in an old black and silver Cooler Master Centurion 5 case. I recently retired my Thinkcenter i5-4570 which I am keeping intact to make sure I have no issues with this one.

I like older cases, but cable management kinda sucks.
 
Hmm. Mine is up and running and it seems like the major complaint is the 'fake' floppy panels. Well hells' bells, just pop them out and put a useful component in there, that's what I did; i.e. 5.25 floppy, 1.2 floppy and a CDROM. Problem solved.
 
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