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bigh4th:
Had to de-case mine since I had to shove it in a cocktail.  If you have the room, I strongly suggest leaving it in the case, if for no other reason than to cut down on the PITA factor.

The biggest problem I had was making a bracket for my video card.  Its in a position that any easy bracket would block access to the audio ports.  So I wound up making a "Z" shapped bracket to secure the card.  It works, but its not pretty.

Another issue is wires that are not long enough to reach their sockets on the motherboard.  I was lucky enough to not have that problem, but it was close.

-Harry

Jdurg:
Keep in mind that the cooling devices for compuuters were designed with having the computer in a case in mind.  The airflow over the motherboard chipset and the CPU fan was expected to occur within the case, so cooling "could" become an issue.  (Though if your cabinet is open enough I don't see any issues occurring).

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: whammoed on December 20, 2007, 06:02:57 pm ---One bad thing about no case is that any cards (video, sound, usb etc) are kinda floppy/unsupported unless you build a bracket for them to screw down to.

--- End quote ---

Last time I did that I just put a little strip of wood where it would be screwing into the case and screwed into that.  Took a couple of minutes and gave pretty good support.

DaOld Man:
On my first build, I just mounted the motherboard to a MDF square. But then I had to tear up an old case to get the bracket to hold hard drive, floppy and cd rom, then I had to rig a way to fasten down the power supply.
It was a lot of extra work.
My next three builds had the computer in the case.
IMHO, if you have the room, use the case... (But to each, his own..)

divemaster127:
I prefer to use the case
dm

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