I'm looking for a case
 

specs : it should be
1.as small as possible for normal mobo (asus nforce2)
2.aluminium

casecooling : not important, one or two 80mm fans will be enough.it needs to be very silent
space : not necessary.
only thing in there will be a mx440/two harddisks and one cdrom.
nothing else

do any of you have an interesting case in mind?

What's the priority ?
Small or silent or looks

I think a Micro ATX format would be satisfactory as you don't need 6 pci-slots.

Why 2 disks ? Buy a 80GB Seagate: sufficient space and silent.

Why don't you choose a Shuttle Cube ?

Snobs can always put a LianLi sticker on it :D
http://www.aopen.com/products/housing/A340-series.htm

that superflower case perhaps?

Re: I'm looking for a case
 

MicroATX it can't be

LianLi has a mini/midi-tower that looks quite good & is pretty small

Re: Re: I'm looking for a case
 

The doc is probably unaware of something like a micro atx formfactor ... a formfactor which is probably more then sufficient for his needs and permits to use very small cases.

A-open ATX case: 420mm(D)x198mm(W)x414mm(H)

A-open Micro Atx case: 399mm(D)x324mm(W)x95(H)

if he wants to fit a nForce2 mobo.. microATX will be too small no?

Aha, good point !
I cannot find a micro-atx n-force board ... yet.

But let's wait for what calantak has to say.

microatx is out of the question, and yes I am aware of that :)
small lian li? mm let me look into that

aha!
http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=482
MicroATX nForce2 cube!

That last Shuttle cube goes for about 450 euro and has been released yesterday, so it won't be easy to find.

Another slick solution is this motherboard

http://users.pandora.be/EasyB/BiostarM7NCD.jpg Okay, it's Biostar, but it's small and it's nforce2, and it should be released soon.

cramped into this case:

http://users.pandora.be/EasyB/PC9300.jpg Lian-Li, aluminium and +/- 150€ at CrazyCamel.


But since µAtx is not an option, the next cool solution would be either:



or



Both Lian-Li, both small and both have all the space you need.

Sorry about all the links but i couldn't insert the pics directly

EasyB

PC30 looks sweet!

yup, and relatively small:

DIMENSION:210x365x490mm(W,H,D)

it does fit a "normal" mobo no?

Yes it does...

If I'm not mistaken i read somewhere that you need to be picky about which HSF you use. Since it's pretty small the heatsink didn't fit because it touched the PSU. Not sure about that though. But it definitely is ATX.

Addition: The PSU is mounted vertically, as you can see here:

http://users.pandora.be/EasyB/07.jpg

It's trouble when you use a HSF that's rather huge....

well no case for me then
cause I'm looking for one to place my XP2200+ in, it has a swifty with a 6800rpm 80mm on it :)