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Turns out the place I have to fit the case into is only 22cm wide, which means that the 23.2cm width of the R4 won't work.
I could probably push it a bit more, but my current case of 21cm is already quite a tight fit.
Another complication is that my CPU cooler is 15.9cm tall, so the case needs to be large enough to house this but small enough to fit within ~21.5cm.

I haven't been terribly impressed by the cases which match those specs and do what I need, so I've decided to hold off.  Many silent cases seem really heavy - perhaps it's to prevent vibrations or something, but, considering that I have to carry out the case whenever I want to open it, a heavy case is inconvenient.  I'm also interested in the lack of carry handles on cases - that'd seem like a convenient feature.
I think cases these days ought to have at least 4 USB ports on the front - it's surprising seeing many with only 2.

Perhaps I'll change over to a micro ATX board on my next upgrade, which will allow me to use smaller, and lighter, cases.  But that'll be a fair while in the future, considering that CPU speed increases have seriously slowed down (Intel's Haswell is pretty much a joke).
29/07/2013 05:00 PM
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[Blog] New Computer (v2) - Assassinator - 02/01/2013, 10:16 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - boogschd - 02/01/2013, 10:40 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - squee666 - 02/01/2013, 11:46 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 02/01/2013, 05:01 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - squee666 - 03/01/2013, 12:19 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 03/01/2013, 04:44 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 04/01/2013, 04:45 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 05/01/2013, 07:54 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - boogschd - 11/01/2013, 10:37 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 12/01/2013, 04:53 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - Syfe - 11/01/2013, 11:41 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - Syfe - 14/01/2013, 09:14 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - boogschd - 14/01/2013, 09:24 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 14/01/2013, 10:50 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - boogschd - 14/01/2013, 11:08 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - boogschd - 15/01/2013, 06:35 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 15/01/2013, 12:27 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 15/01/2013, 04:14 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - 1-R - 16/01/2013, 11:58 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 19/01/2013, 04:52 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - squee666 - 19/01/2013, 10:55 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - squee666 - 20/01/2013, 08:09 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - squee666 - 27/01/2013, 10:30 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 27/01/2013, 04:04 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 27/01/2013, 07:45 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 29/01/2013, 04:39 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - squee666 - 29/01/2013, 05:09 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 13/07/2013, 05:56 AM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - 1-R - 14/07/2013, 04:50 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 14/07/2013, 05:55 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 14/07/2013, 05:58 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 15/07/2013, 07:50 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - Syfe - 15/07/2013, 11:57 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 29/07/2013 05:00 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - Syfe - 29/07/2013, 05:39 PM
RE: [Blog] New Computer (v2) - ZiNgA BuRgA - 30/07/2013, 04:48 PM

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