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My case is huge, and the motherboard is standard ATX but really the case is just all air now.
I have a large GPU, but still it looks modest in the case.
The fans and heatsink on the CPU are the only thing that is really large... but then, the whole thing is totally silent as the fans barely kick in and all of the fans are huge so don't have to spin at high speed to offer effective cooling.
8 case / system fans, of which 2 are 180mm (huge!), and the other 6 are all 140mm (still big - this includes the 2 on the CPU cooler at this size).
The GPU has it's own 3 fans separate from this, but they only ever spin up if I play a game.
I have them all set to spin only when temp thresholds are met, and because of the case lighting making patterns on the walls I see that they go idle the majority of the day. Even the CPU ones go idle at times.
Cases are just huge air tanks nowadays, and it's nearly all just down to GPU size.