Atc 600

i was looking around for a new case, and something caught my eye: the coolermaster ATC 600

http://www.directron.com/atc600vx1.html

now i dunno about you, but this case looks pretty nice. it's cool, and it's fairly small so it won't take up too much space (will be put in use at a college dorm... i could make space for a big system but the smaller the better).

but of course i want to mod it, but as there's not much space, i'm wondering if anyone could throw out some modding ideas for this case. i mean would a window take away too much from the overall design? any custom cutouts i could make? not too sure what to do with this one... any ideas would be great.

i say more fans, and if you really want small cheak out the mini lan rig thread.

yeah, i read about the netvista case... although i dunno. an aluminum case just seems to make more sense... it's lighter (although i'm sure because just because it's so small the netvista's pretty light... or is it aluminum also?) and personally it looks better tho... i dunno tho.

no the netvista is steel but i would say it is probibly still lighter.

yeah, that's true. cpt. slug says that his netvista case goes at about 5-6 lbs empty and the ATC-600 is 5 kgs, which is 12 pounds-ish. hm... how small can you go though if you use conventional components as opposed to digging around for laptop cdrom drives, thin disk drives, small PSU's, etc etc etc.

well if you use a small micro atx mobo like the epox kt133m/m+ or a flex atx mobo like the shuttle FV24/25 and a 160w fatx PSU you can use a regular HDD and CD-ROM than all you need to search for is low profile cards.

and btw the netvista case comes with a PSU

hay dont forget mini-itx look here http://www.mini-itx.com/ and here http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital Library/pr_miniitx.jsp also shuttle makes cool barebone systems in this format using P4, AMD, P3. there cases r cool too. the new P4 (SS-51G) has 1 AGP and 1 PCI, and a new one soon to come out using the NForce2 chipset with an AGP for AMD.

for the coolermaster make the 2 side fans 80mm

FV24/25 is mini-itx

no sorry the fv24/25 are small flex atx 7"x7.5" mini itx is 6.6" x 6.6"