First post, by AshleyPomeroy
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Now that Windows 10 isn't supported any more I've built a new PC to run Windows 11, but this leaves me with an old LGA1150 Xeon 1275 system more or less intact. The only thing I swapped over was the GPU, but the Xeon has a built-in GPU. I built that system back in 2011 and it's still functional nowadays, but the motherboard is too old for Windows 11. It's odd to think of a machine from 2011 as retro but time marches on.
For space reasons it would be lovely to take the motherboard out of my ludicrously oversized fourteen-year-old tower case and put it in a desktop case, sitting under a monitor. But I'm way out of touch. Back in 2011 you could still buy desktop PC cases, but they seem to be completely out of production now. The only google results are the Silverstone FLP01, which is a novelty joke that costs £115.
My second thought was to buy one of those old HP Compaq Elite desktops and gut it, but they used a weird non-standard PSU, and there's no space for a regular PSU. The Lenovo ThinkCentre M720S is roughly the right shape but uses a custom motherboard that has one of the corners cut out. The other desktop-style corporate PCs seemed to rely on custom parts.
So, was there a standard HP / Dell / Lenovo corporate desktop case in the 2010s that took completely standard parts, or alternatively was there a default desktop-style case that people used at the time?
