How to tell if a case can hold a bigger ATX mother board

[JhonConners]

Short and sweet, I bought a prebuilt which I have mostly upgraded.

It has an MSI 760GM-P34(fx) motherboard which is a micro atx board.

But that is AM3+
and AMD CPUs aren't exactly the greatest for performance, yeah, they're cheap, but that's about it.

So I was thinking of putting in a new cpu, and of course, would need a new mother board.

Based on just sizes of the case and stuff is there any way to tell if it can fit a regular atx board?

 

[elbert]

As in I would need to overclock it to that or would it support my ram

Na you can but all lower speeds are supported.

 

[JhonConners]

As in I would need to overclock it to that or would it support my ram

Na you can but all lower speeds are supported.

okay

 

[JhonConners]

This is completely unrelated but I just did a win 7 update and it said failed to update reverting changes. It stuck there for around an hour so thinkin it fully broke or froze I shut my PC down, now it won't even boot into safe mode. Help

 

[JhonConners]

Apparently my pc doesnt like you guys - It worked as I posted that!

 

[elbert]

Sounds like your OS boot was corrupted. You could use a boot thumb drive to recover files but you will need to reinstall windows. Your windows 7 install disc may allow you to install without formatting.

 

[JhonConners]

look at my latest post