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TheCrazyCanuck
> 3 dayI put an i5-13400 with a Noctua NH-L12 ghost edition and a micro-ATX motherboard with 64GB DDR5-SDRAM and a 10G Intel X550 NIC. Itll be a virtualization box running low speed services and running memtest86 with the CPU turbo disabled the processor temp after 22 minutes is 57C. Im a big fan of this case and it fits on a short server rack shelf nicely. The chances of you getting four 3.5 drives and a micro-ATX motherboard. I have attempted that in the past with a slightly longer case than this and it was very difficult. If you want 4 drives and micro-ATX you might be able to put the 3.5 drives into 5.25 adapters and shift them to the opposite side. Or if you go with 2.5 SSDs and clever adapters you might be able to get quite a few in. Or just load up the PCIe and M.2 slots with NVMe drives and ditch the drive bays completely (keep reading to find out why this isnt possible easily with the 5.25 bays) If the manufacture is reading some ideas for improvements: 1) The outer case screws are difficult to center so maybe changing the drilling may help 2) I didnt plan to have any drives besides a M.2 on the motherboard. So I removed the 3.5 drive bays easily but was surprised that 5.25 bay covers were mounted to the 5.25 bay cage. Maybe you have a different SKU I should have purchased but if not it would be great to offer some way to remove the 5.25 cage but retain a front cover (maybe a fan replacement for the dual 5.25 slots) would be great. 3) Instructions including rail kits supported would help. I see its drilled for rails but given my track record with rails I dont like to guess my way through getting the correct rails.
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Philip
> 3 dayI really like this ATX Rackmount Server Case. I used this product to manufacture a new server for my VMware Virtual Private Data Center. This case is top notch and matches ATX specs.