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Solved Can a small, normally upright tower be placed horizontally?
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SSD (no spinner), but the normally vertical optical drive would now spin horizontally.
Any long term issues? (not just concerning the optical drive)
The optical drive should work fine, just a little trickier getting the disk in. Just dont cover the vents and make sure that nothing is loose inside. There shouldnt be, but I'd listen carefully when moving it and open it up if I heard something inside slide, move etc...
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Home Made
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AMD 2950X
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ASRock X399 Fatality Pro
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32gig DDR4 3600mhz
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Water Cooled EVGA 3080TI Hybrid
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SSD (no spinner), but the normally vertical optical drive would now spin horizontally.
Any long term issues? (not just concerning the optical drive)
It's doable. As mentioned, be careful with the optical drive.
The rest of the hardware should be fine... better in fact.
Another consideration would be cables and spinning fans. Make sure the cables won't droop into a fan somewhere.
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Win 11 Home ♦♦♦26100.3194 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦24H2 ♦♦♦non-Insider
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PC/Desktop
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Built by Ghot® [May 2020]
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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
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Asus Pro WS X570-ACE (BIOS 4702)
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G.Skill (F4-3200C14D-16GTZKW)
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EVGA RTX 2070 (08G-P4-2171-KR)
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Realtek ALC1220P / ALC S1220A
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Dell U3011 30"
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2x Samsung 860 EVO 500GB,
WD 4TB Black FZBX - SATA III,
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PC Power & Cooling 750W Quad EPS12V
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Cooler Master ATCS 840 Tower
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CM Hyper 212 EVO (push/pull)
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Ducky DK9008 Shine II Blue LED
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Logitech Optical M-100
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Windows XP Pro 32bit w/SP3
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Built by Ghot® (not in use)
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (OC'd @ 3.2Ghz)
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ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition
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TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX (2 x 1GB, DDR2 800)
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EVGA 256-P2-N758-TR GeForce 8600GT SSC
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ViewSonic G90FB Black 19" Professional (CRT)
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WD 36GB 10,000rpm Raptor SATA
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PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad EPS12V
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ZALMAN 9500A 92mm CPU Cooler
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Logitech Optical M-BT96a
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Logitech Classic Keybooard 200
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300/300
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Still assembled, still runs. Haven't turned it on for 13 years?
Many SFF and UltraSFF machines have feet of some type to allow vertical or horizontal placement. SFF=Small Form Factor
Many offices and banks use them mounted in brackets on the back of monitors to save space. I have one of that type with Win7, came out of our hospital when they upgraded. As for the HDD, back in the IDE days [same as PATA] of drives before the 1GB it seemed to be important to format them in the mounted position in the case and how it would be oriented on a desk or the floor when in use.
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Win11 Pro RTM
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Laptop
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Dell Vostro 3400
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Intel Core i5 11th Gen. 2.40GHz
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12GB
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256GB SSD NVMe M.2
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Windows 11 Pro RTM x64
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PC/Desktop
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Dell Vostro 5890
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Thanks for the replies, I will mark this thread 'Solved'
Happy holidays and be safe