[irish2284]

Hello I am hoping you can help me with some compatability issues.

I have a HP Pavilion a230n PC. I have done some upgrades to it, vid card, new hard drive, ram, power supply, etc.

I am wanting to upgrade my case to the following for better cooling, etc.
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16811129017

Currently my Mother Board is the following:
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X-LA Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: X312345678
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 3.07 04/21/2003

I have a standard power supply, 2 5.25" CD Rom drives, 1 3.5" Floppy Drive, 2 front USB, 4 rear USB, 2 HD's, etc.

I am wondering if that case will work with my current motherboard. If you could please help me out it would be much appreciated. I would imagine you could put a smaller mother board in a bigger case, but I do not know and am wanting to ask people who would.

Thanks-
Josh

Edited by irish2284, 08 September 2006 - 04:03 AM.

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Your mainboard is ATX format and will fit any ATX case as should the PSU and drives. In the days when it was hard to get the micro ATX PSU's I often bought the case with PSU and swapped over. It was cheaper and the larger case often allowed the system to run cooler.

[silverbeard]

Your mainboard is ATX format and will fit any ATX case as should the PSU and drives. In the days when it was hard to get the micro ATX PSU's I often bought the case with PSU and swapped over. It was cheaper and the larger case often allowed the system to run cooler.

[SRX660]

Yes, this can be done. The only problem i can foresee is the cdrom drives. H-P puts a special custom front facia on the drives that may not fit with the antec case. In the case they don't fit another $50 to buy a dvd-rw and dvd-rom off newegg would fix the problem. Selling the old drives on ebay can get some of the money back. The floppy drive will also probably not work so a $8 floppy drive will have to be ordered( i do not install floppy drives anymore in computers i build).

SRX660