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PC Case upgrade with USB Type C on front IO
interstellaflyer
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I'm looking to upgrade the case on my PC from the cheap £30 CIT unit to something a little nicer and with USB Type C on the front IO. I upgraded the mother board (Gigabyte B550 Gaming) and processor (Ryzen 7 5700G) just over a year ago but whilst the MB has a USB Type C hub there is no USB Type C on the rear IO, I currently have an expansion card with 2 Type C outlets fitted.
What I need is a reasonably priced nice case with USB Type C on the front IO, the issue I'm having is that every case I look at with this feature is well north of £100, I don't mind spending up to £100 any suggestions?
What I need is a reasonably priced nice case with USB Type C on the front IO, the issue I'm having is that every case I look at with this feature is well north of £100, I don't mind spending up to £100 any suggestions?
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I tend to use ebuyer
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Thanks but my motherboard is ATX not EATX, apparently not compatible with that case.Mark_d said:I hate football and do wish people wouldn't keep talking about it like it's the most important thing in the world0 -
EATX is a bigger version of ATX.If the case can take EATX boards it will take ATX.That being said, the motherboard model you've posted is a standard ATX motherboard... B550 Gaming X seems to be the model?
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Yep Gaming X, I got conflicting info off google saying it wouldn't fit, that said I'm not keen on the look of that case anyway, would prefer something a little more taller and thinner rather than square.Neil_Jones said:EATX is a bigger version of ATX.If the case can take EATX boards it will take ATX.That being said, the motherboard model you've posted is a standard ATX motherboard... B550 Gaming X seems to be the model?I hate football and do wish people wouldn't keep talking about it like it's the most important thing in the world0 -
That case was an example. TBH I wasn't too keen on the look either. I think this one looks better:
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Yes thanks, I looked on Ebuyer earlier and couldn't find anything suitableMark_d said:That case was an example. TBH I wasn't too keen on the look either. I think this one looks better:I hate football and do wish people wouldn't keep talking about it like it's the most important thing in the world0 -
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interstellaflyer said:
Yep Gaming X, I got conflicting info off google saying it wouldn't fit, that said I'm not keen on the look of that case anyway, would prefer something a little more taller and thinner rather than square.Neil_Jones said:EATX is a bigger version of ATX.If the case can take EATX boards it will take ATX.That being said, the motherboard model you've posted is a standard ATX motherboard... B550 Gaming X seems to be the model?Be careful of thinner if you have a decent air cooler on the processor as they can be quite tall and won't fit.If, like me, you use 3.5" HDDs be careful that there are enough drive bays.(Apparently I'm a dinosaur, and "modern" users only fit m2 drives to the motherboard, with perhaps 1 or 2 2.5" drives, and they weren't even born when a 5" Bluray drive was A Thing......)
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facade said:(Apparently I'm a dinosaur, and "modern" users only fit m2 drives to the motherboard, with perhaps 1 or 2 2.5" drives, and they weren't even born when a 5" Bluray drive was A Thing......)You can connect whatever you like if it works for you. My game machine has an M2 slot but I stuck a 2.5" SSD in it as it came off a previous machine without M2, and was only about two weeks old anyway.Of course real dinosaurs used to connect 5.25" floppy disk drives, and were pleasantly surprised when 3.5" drives came along, because not only were they smaller, they held more stuff as well. Yes, a whole 1.4Mb, up from 360kb of the bigger item. How did we cope with the excitement.
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No issues with cooling using the supplied AMD cooler, 3 x 120mm intake fans and 1 120mm exhaust fan, No mechanical hard drives used, 2 x M.2 NVMe drives and a SATA SSDfacade said:interstellaflyer said:
Yep Gaming X, I got conflicting info off google saying it wouldn't fit, that said I'm not keen on the look of that case anyway, would prefer something a little more taller and thinner rather than square.Neil_Jones said:EATX is a bigger version of ATX.If the case can take EATX boards it will take ATX.That being said, the motherboard model you've posted is a standard ATX motherboard... B550 Gaming X seems to be the model?Be careful of thinner if you have a decent air cooler on the processor as they can be quite tall and won't fit.If, like me, you use 3.5" HDDs be careful that there are enough drive bays.(Apparently I'm a dinosaur, and "modern" users only fit m2 drives to the motherboard, with perhaps 1 or 2 2.5" drives, and they weren't even born when a 5" Bluray drive was A Thing......)I hate football and do wish people wouldn't keep talking about it like it's the most important thing in the world0
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