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This is one of those stupid questions that u will probably shake ur heads at
but....

My son has a Dell Optiplex computer which is now networked to mine. He wants
to rebuild his sytem into a tower with as many upgrades as he can afford...

Is this posible??? can u put a motherboard from a desktop into a tower
successfully....

Jax

"jackie" <> wrote in
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> This is one of those stupid questions that u will probably shake ur
> heads at but....
>
> My son has a Dell Optiplex computer which is now networked to mine. He
> wants to rebuild his sytem into a tower with as many upgrades as he
> can afford...
>
> Is this posible??? can u put a motherboard from a desktop into a tower
> successfully....
>
> Jax
>
>
>
As long as the new case conforms to the MB form factor, micro, baby, or
whatever you have.
Or you could set the desktop on it's side.

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> "jackie" <> wrote in
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>
> > This is one of those stupid questions that u will probably shake ur
> > heads at but....
> >
> > My son has a Dell Optiplex computer which is now networked to mine. He
> > wants to rebuild his sytem into a tower with as many upgrades as he
> > can afford...
> >
> > Is this posible??? can u put a motherboard from a desktop into a tower
> > successfully....
> >
> > Jax
> >
> >
> >
> As long as the new case conforms to the MB form factor, micro, baby, or
> whatever you have.
> Or you could set the desktop on it's side.
>
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Your going to need to be patient here..... what is a form factor and if it
has to do with the motherboards requirements how do i find them out....

Jackie

jackie wrote:
> "docmill" <> wrote in message
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>> "jackie" <> wrote in
>> news:ZuIQb.26732$:
>>
>>> This is one of those stupid questions that u will probably shake ur
>>> heads at but....
>>>
>>> My son has a Dell Optiplex computer which is now networked to mine.
>>> He wants to rebuild his sytem into a tower with as many upgrades as
>>> he can afford...
>>>
>>> Is this posible??? can u put a motherboard from a desktop into a
>>> tower successfully....
>>>
>>> Jax
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> As long as the new case conforms to the MB form factor, micro, baby,
>> or whatever you have.
>> Or you could set the desktop on it's side.
>>
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> Your going to need to be patient here..... what is a form factor and
> if it has to do with the motherboards requirements how do i find them
> out....
>
> Jackie

The best thing to do is get the PDF (Adobe Acrobat) ATX specification
document. Look at pages 6,9, and 11.

ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/atx_201.pdf

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"jackie" <> wrote in
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> Your going to need to be patient here..... what is a form factor and
> if it has to do with the motherboards requirements how do i find them
> out....
>
> Jackie
>
>
Start with the Dell Optiplex model that you have. If you could provide
that, you might get help on a case and what you could upgrade the rest of
it to.



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