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Chapter 25. Cases

Most people think of a case as merely the enclosure that holds a PC together. That view is reasonable for people who buy a PC and never open the case, but anyone who builds or upgrades PCs soon realizes that not all cases are created equal. This chapter describes what you need to know about cases.



    		Dedication
    		Foreword
    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Fundamentals
    		Chapter 2. Working on PCs
    		Chapter 3. Motherboards
    		Chapter 4. Processors
    		Chapter 5. Memory
    		Chapter 6. Floppy Disk Drives
    		Chapter 7. High-Capacity Floppy Disk Drives
    		Chapter 8. Removable Hard Disk Drives
    		Chapter 9. Tape Drives
    		Chapter 10. CD-ROM Drives
    		Chapter 11. CD Writers
    		Chapter 12. DVD Drives
    		Chapter 13. Hard Disk Interfaces
    		Chapter 14. Hard Disk Drives
    		Chapter 15. Video Adapters
    		Chapter 16. Displays
    		Chapter 17. Sound Adapters
    		Chapter 18. Speakers and Headphones
    		Chapter 19. Keyboards
    		Chapter 20. Mice and Trackballs
    		Chapter 21. Game Controllers
    		Chapter 22. Serial Communications
    		Chapter 23. Parallel Communications
    		Chapter 24. USB Communications
    		Chapter 25. Cases
    		25.1 Case Characteristics
    		25.2 Choosing a Case
    		25.3 Our Picks
    		Chapter 26. Power Supplies
    		Chapter 27. Backup Power Supplies
    		Chapter 28. Building a PC
    		Colophon