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since we did our video covering the different sizes of motherboards I have

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received one metric buttton of requests to cover the same topic but for computer

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cases the issue with this is that the way they're classified has actually

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changed over time once upon a time it was all about how many 5 and a/ qu inch

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Bays the case had then it changed to be based on the overall height of the case

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but even now those standards are really more like the pirate code than actual

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rules no one can decide on a standard

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with antec abandoning the categorization on their site entirely Corsair throwing

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their own ideas into the mix and Cooler Master doing random things like putting

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the half XB in the midtower category on their North American website when it's

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more correctly classified as a land boox on the global site but we're going to do

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our best anyway so here goes starting with the main traditional PC case sizes

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a mini tower is a great compromise between size and expansion it has one or

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two external Bas stands 14 to 16 in tall

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and hosts an matx motherboard usually

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but a large ITX case that used a lot of its internal space for liquid cooling or

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drive mounting could also be classified as a mini tower most mini towers are

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only suitable for use with a single graphics card without quate cooling

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while some are okay for two mid towers

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are the most common PC cases for custom Builders and have 3 to four external

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expansion Bays stand 17 to 21 in tall

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and can almost always hold a full-sized ATX motherboard but without a ton of

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extra space for drives and whatnot expect to find 6 to eight hard drive

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mounts in a typical mid Tower and enough Cooling and space to comfortably handle

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two graphics cards in crossfire SLI full towers are the SUVs of the computer case

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World more on that in a moment they can have five or more external 5 and 1/4

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inch bays and range and height from 22 in to 27 in they always support

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full-sized ATX motherboards almost always support eatx and sometimes

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support the only sort of a real standard XL ATX form factor as well the funny

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thing about full Towers is that other than accepting more Drive expansion

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providing better cooling for hot running inefficient setups like three-way and

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four-way graphics configs and having ample space for Superfluous epen stuff

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like custom liquid cooling Loops they don't bring much to the table in terms

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of performance over a mid Tower but they do tend to be easier to work in

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particular ularly if you've got big hands so back to the SUV analogy it's a

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luxury item not a musthave only two more to go now before we get into some of the

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non- tower stuff and neither of them is really a wellestablished standard a

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super or Ultra Tower is Loosely defined as anything taller than 27 in and a mod

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Tower is a case system whose height is actually difficult to determine because

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you can actually adjust it by stacking multiple cases on top of each other to

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add cooling capacity or drive mounting op options desktops are our first non-

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Tower size case and while they used to be the dominant style and yes they're

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slightly different they have feet on what would be the side panel of the

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other one anyway these days they've been relegated to the htpc case Niche where

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we'll find them in a variety of sizes from ones that are so small they need an

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external power brick to huge ones that can hold server class motherboards and

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large rate arrays of hard drives small form factor or sff cases can in almost

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any shape from cubes to like equal sided Towers to desktops to normal Towers but

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the one thing that they generally have in common is support for a mini ITX

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motherboard Max with minimal Drive mounting options and only sometimes

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support for an add-in graphics card and certainly only one of them our last case

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type the cube case is typically characterized by its roughly Cube like

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shape rather look that's what they are

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if you think my job is so easy you try try to do it anyway there is no real

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standard with respect to size and they're available in a wide variety of

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configurations look their shaped like cubes deal with it that's all I can say

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about them anyway speaking of a wide variety of configurations this is just

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the beginning there's other stuff out there but these are the main ones but I

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guess that's a topic for another day so before we wrap up as usual I'd like to

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take a moment to thank our episode sponsor Cooler Master for giving us the

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precious resources we need to make these videos for y'all if you've been

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researching PC cases the odds that you've come across Cooler Master at some

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point is pretty good given their wide range of cases for gamers and

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enthusiasts and regular folks as well but if you appreciate what we do maybe

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you'll consider checking out the sponsor Link in the video description and browsing their selection of cases to see

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