Thanks again, everyone, for all of the feedback. It's helpful. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:29:05PM -0600, Topher Cullen wrote: > > I'd be in favor of buying a super cheap case and ditching the dell > > altogether. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119243 > > I've used the piece of junk in a bunch of builds and its worked out well > > every time. > > Yeah, trying to get a non-Dell motherboard to work with a Dell case is > probably not going to work. I took it all apart this evening, and spent quite a bit of time looking at pictures of motherboards on newegg and comparing them to my current motherboard (I would really like to keep the case and power supply, as I'm on a pretty tight budget). I'm pretty certain that the MSI and Gigabyte motherboards wouldn't fit (at least only some of the screws would be in the right place, because the board isn't square, and it looked like there might be issues with the direction of the SATA ports), but the Intel and ASUS boards look like they will work. It was relatively easy to disassemble everything in the case, except for the power supply. I had a Dell machine a number of years ago that I'm sure would have been a nightmare to upgrade, but this one actually seems pretty easy. The case reminds me of the Antec Minuet cases that the potatoes are in (it's a Dell Studio Slim, from the end of 2009). At this point I'm leaning towards a new i3. I think I'll wait to see if anything goes on sale between now and Black Friday.
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