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width as well, to allow more space for the CPU, Memory PWM, and in some cases, a second CPU socket. While the market share of these exotic high-end mainboards is very low, almost all high-end cases and many mainstream cases support XL-ATX (10 expansion slots). As of 2018, no major motherboard manufacturer has made an XL-ATX board for several years. E-ATX is similar to XL-ATX in that it is larger than ATX and is also loosely defined. Unlike XL-ATX, E-ATX motherboards and cases are still in production (as of 2020), and support quad-channel memory across 8 slots of ram, up to 4 PCI-e expansion slots for up to 4 double slot graphics cards and a single CPU such as the AMD Ryzen
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tower case is done by removing the side panels. Looking front-to-back, accessing the motherboard, PSU, drive bays, and most case fan installation points are done by removing the left side panel. Removing the right-side panel is done less often to access the space behind the motherboard mounting
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which would typically be tasked with serving data from expensive CD-ROM databases that held more data than the hard drives commonly available at the time. Hence, many full tower cases include locking doors and other physical security features to prevent theft of the discs. However, as computing
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discs the drives would be holding. At the time, CD-ROM capacity was larger than the hard disks available, and many business-critical databases were distributed on this media. These databases were often very expensive or held proprietary data, and hence would be likely targets for casual theft.
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to hold components and panels in place (i.e. motherboard, PSU, drives, and expansion cards). From the early 2000s onwards there is a trend towards tool-less cases, in which components are held together with snap-in plastic rails, thumbscrews, and other methods that do not require tools; this
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without any external bays. Many include a PSU shroud and vertical gpu mounts. Some used to include holes to support external water cooling radiators. Cases with side windows may have side fans (on the window) as well, although it is uncommon for cases with glass windows to have side fans.
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and headphone ports) on the front of the case. Such a case will also (normally) include the wires needed to connect these ports, switches, and indicators to the motherboard.
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1397:"CoolerMaster Cosmos II Ultra Tower Case Review"
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1482:ThePCGeekz
1209:References
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1055:tower case
1053:SGI Indigo
992:case with
988:Fusion V2
952:SWTPC 6800
785:NZXT Corp.
751:Prominent
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692:Appearance
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529:peripheral
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498:mini-tower
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971:rackmount
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817:firmware
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789:Phanteks
761:BitFenix
452:Mac Mini
427:Gigabyte
415:Mini ITX
390:microATX
330:external
318:internal
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240:open air
170:such as
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120:speakers
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1870:Printer
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938:casemod
848:Gallery
837:locking
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841:CD-ROM
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604:screws
539:, and
515:Layout
435:ASRock
168:metals
88:memory
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1773:Other
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1154:Apple
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407:AOpen
346:tower
172:steel
128:mouse
108:cable
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