Thanks for the ideas. The Antec Mini 180 seemed to be the best micro-ATX case. With the ASUS micro-ATX board, you can do an awful lot with it. If I had seen it first and had never seen the Lian Li PC-X1000, I would have gotten the Antec and probably would have been very happy with it (assuming that ...

Given the close proximity of the 200mm and 120mm exhaust fans to the CPU, would it be necessary to run a fan on a CPU heatsink?

I didn't think a sub-ATX MB would work for me, but it looks like the Asus makes a Rampage micro-ATX for the i7 that takes six DIMMS of RAM and could do 2xSLI. Guess I should look at micro ATX cases. The Antec Mini 180 is pretty nice (and great price at n**egg). Reviews indicate that with a long vide...

(First post ever on this site - please be gentle!) Embarking on a new, hopefully very quiet build. Lots of great information on this site and others, but I'm still having trouble deciding on some components. Today's question: the case. I am planning to have at least two internally-mounted optical dr...