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The computer case houses and supports the motherboard, peripheral cards, power supply, and disk drives that make up the computer. A computer inside a case is less subject to many of the stresses that could otherwise impair its functionality.

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Certain kind of cases holds certain types of parts, parts that where meant to be held in that type of case.

Keeping the case in good condition helps maintain good air flow inside of it, this is important for proper and healthy operation of the parts built to fit inside it.

The case is the embodiment of the computer.

Just like your body holds your soft parts inside of it, and your parts are meant to be in your body.

Some parts can fit in almost any computer and these are non proprietary parts and even can be call standard parts.

Some parts can only fit into certain cases made by certain manufactures like HP, DELL, and Gateway these companies make cases that usually contain parts that can only fit into their computers.

There are also cases that can hold what is called multiple form factors this referrer's to the shape and size of one part called the motherboard.

Sometimes cases can only hold one type of motherboard form factor.

ATX family or BTX family form factor are the more widely used with the ATX family being the industry Standard.

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The computer case serves several purposes.
1. It provides a housing for the internal components like the motherboard, expansion cards, hard drives and ROM drives.
2. It acts as a shield against the external environment like dust and ESD.
3. It is used to electrically ground all the internal components.

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