Hardware question - Slavaging

[YoyoBoy]

I have two old broken computers and I'm wondering if motherboards for modern chips will fit in them. One is a 7-year-old Boxx and the other is a 10-year-old... something else. Both are mid-size tower cases.

I don't know much about building new systems from scratch but, if I do, can I start with these old cases?

Thanks!

[val2]

If the motherboard is the same form factor as what the case can accommodate, lets say an "extended ATX" motherboard then the case needs to be able to house that. I have done it many times. I have brand new systems in very old cases right now. anybody walking into my office would think I had machines from the nineties still running. I have even modified old cases to fit new motherboards by cutting away parts and drilling new holes but that is something else. I could care less what the case looked like.

[YoyoBoy]

Sweet! Thanks. That'll save me some bread.