Upgrading case on a Dell Inspiron 560

[Connor Weber]

Here are the specs i have readily available:
1)CPU- Intel E7500 Core 2 Duo 2.93 ghz
2)HD- 500gb
I'm mostly trying to find the motherboard dimensions to see if i can fit it into a larger case with out the io ports being obscured.
Tl;Dr: Is this motherboard a standard ATX or MTX size?

 

[rolli59]

Looks to be a mATX board that will fit in any std tower be it mini/midi/full IO port location is std over all the ATX std's.

 

[bignastyid]

Your going to run into a problem(or 2) the front panel(power button, hdd led, etc) connector is proprietary, which makes using a different case a huge pita. Many of dells boards dont use the standard mount locations either.

 

[Kisianik]

Easy answer - yes, it is fully compatible ATX motherboard, except as it was noted above, power button connector. If you can live with pressing F1 on each boot, there would be no other problems!
I have done it with Inspiron 570 by sticking it into CM HAF 912 case! So I am pressing F1 on each boot, not a big problem.