Designing the perfect mITX case

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I was looking around at the mITX cases and although they're getting better, they're still not quite perfect. I was thinking of putting a design together and making my own, but I've never built an mITX system so I would appreciate some advice.

The system will primarily be used for gaming and going to LAN Parties, as I have a desktop and laptop I use for everything else. (But the desktop is in a Corsair 800D and it's not exactly lan-party friendly).

So here are my thoughts:
-Able to house a dual-slot graphics card (5850 or 5870 most likely)
-Able to fit standard ATX PSU (or comes with a PSU that can power the GPU and CPU)
-USB ports on front for gaming
-Integrated slimline optical drive (SATA)
-Good cooling (120mm fan or larger) with integrated fan controller
-Space for 2 hard drives, either 2.5" or 3.5" (SATA)

Ideally the drives would have a backplane-like device or the case would come with pre-routed SATA cables the way that Shuttle systems do.

Any thoughts on this?
 
Well honestly I think you could follow the mold of the SG07 if you want to build it. Maybe a front fan instead of the solid front.

That could house all your components and add some active cooling to harddrives.
 
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