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Finding a case for a Dell Mother board

Does anyone know where I can get a case that will fit a dell mother board.  The boards are reversed.  I couldn't even find one on the dell site.
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Thanks.  It's kinda like that but not quite.  It won't fit into a BTX .

The model number is E210882.  I fyou can google it and view pics you should see what I mean.

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The Dell E210882 is a standard ATX motherboard and should fit in any case that will accept a full-size ATX board.   You do, of course, need the proper backplate ==> this should have come with your board (or if you removed it from an older case you'll need to remove the backplate as well.

... simply purchase any ATX case and the board should fit fine.


i don;t understand what you mean by "reversed" as gary case has stated, it appears to be a standard ATX board. what is reversed?
If this is a relatively new Dell computer, Dell has gone to an unconventional  case design where the motherboard is attached to the opposite side of the case, essentially reversing the motherboard design.


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Gary has it, E210882 has the ATX design with a Dell backplate.

Do you know the Dell computer model the motherboard came from?

Sparkmaker nailed it.  The motherboard attaches to the oppisite side of the case. Therefore every standard ATX I've seen won't work for me.  It's from an optiplex 320 I think.  It looks jsut like the one above. I would like to find a box that works so that I can use the board.
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Sorry the pic was of the Optiplex320 case, here is a motherboard pic for the 320
It goes by these Dell part numbers
Dell Part# TY915, 0TY915, UP453, 0UP453, MH651, 0MH651, CU395, 0CU395


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Yes,  That is the motherboard. I looked at a few BTX cases.  I think I'm out of luck.

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Thanks guys.  I finally found a board like it.  Your right it's BTX, but it's Micro BTX that's why I couldn't find anything.  The only box I found was the ANTEC above but I can't find anyone selling it.  Anyway, thank you for your help everyone.  At least I knwo what it is I'm looking for noe.

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Hi,
YOu can place the cooling unit on top of MicroProcessor as it is neither an ATX cabinet,so only solution is keeping it in close to Air Conditioner which will cool the CPU Cabinet as well as Hardware present inside.