ATX motherboard

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jp198780

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i was told that my Compaq Presario 5155 motherboard is a ATX, soo would any type of ATX case work? i would like 2 get 1 off of Ebay, on the motherboard, right where the CPU sits, it says Molex? whats that for?
 
if it truely is an atx motherboard then any atx case will work, but with a lot of prebuilt computers their motheroards are changed to only fit in the case it came in.
 
i cant tell what kind of motherboard it is. i was told it's a ATX, but on the bottom on the mobo, it says "Shelby UlB1 Mother Bd."
 
It's ATX, It should fit fine in any ATX Case.

Molex is a type of power connection, most commely used at a 4 pin molex, which is the connection for your hardrive and other optical and mis. drives.

Molex that your talking about it most likly the molex power connection on your motherboard. Any standerd ATX PSU "should" work.
 
What? Cases do not have parrelel ports, ONly motherboard and PCI cards(and some older things) have parralel ports. Having or not having a parallel port has nothing to di with it fitting in a case or not.
 
Do you mean on the back of the case where the ports of the motherboard go? Becuase those are called "faceplates" which will COME OUT of the case. Normally your motherboard will come with one that you put in ther instead, but you CAN always tqake the one with the case out, and have NONE in there at all if you dont have one for your motherboard.
 
Theres a few things to think about, you will have to run it without a backplate the new case will not match your board and I dont think the one in your old case will fit the new case, plus make sure the mounting holes on your board will match the mounting holes on the after market case, I have built alot of computers and some namebrand computers have weird placed mounting holes on there motherboards! Plus on more thing, some name brand computers motherboards pin connectors for- power, HD-LCD, reset switch will not match after market cases!
 
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Well most after market cases are the same lay out, plus the power supplys-20 or 24 pin power connector-4 pin power connector- power connectors for your harddrive and Cd drives, some new one have sata power connectors.
 
If this is a older Dell, some older Dell mothrboards had that weird ass old type AT power connector plus the 20 pin power connector instead of the standard 4 pin power connector
 
ALL ATX MOTHERBOARDS CAN FIT INTO ALL ATX CASES.


That is the point of ATX, All that ATX is is a STANDERD, Which makes a CERTAIN size faceplate, a CERTAIN size and length apart from PCI slots...cpu is in the same spot....the screw holes are in the same spot.?

IF that motherbord IS a ATX motherboard then it WILL fit in ANY ATX case.

The ONLY thing that mioght be differnt is the FACEPLATE, which you CAN remove and not have any and everything will work FINE.
 
Arm_Pit said:
ALL ATX MOTHERBOARDS CAN FIT INTO ALL ATX CASES.


That is the point of ATX, All that ATX is is a STANDERD, Which makes a CERTAIN size faceplate, a CERTAIN size and length apart from PCI slots...cpu is in the same spot....the screw holes are in the same spot.?

IF that motherbord IS a ATX motherboard then it WILL fit in ANY ATX case.

The ONLY thing that mioght be differnt is the FACEPLATE, which you CAN remove and not have any and everything will work FINE.
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Well you can tell that to the numeruos ones that I have built that didnt!
 
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