Switching parts from one case to another

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Hello everybody! It's my first post here and I wanna start off by saying I have mostly no idea what I'm doing or the terminology so bear with me please.

I have an Alienware X51 R2 with an AMD Radeon R9 280X. The case and PSU just wasn't good enought to keep up with the R9. So I bought a new case, the Corsair Obsidian Series 650D. I hadn't realized at the time, but it's quite big. My question is, will I be able to put all the stuff in without problems? I assume there will be enough space, but might there be any other problems. Also, I bought a Corsair CX600M PSU, will it be compatible with the alienware's motherboard? Because the X51 uses a laptop style PSU.

That's pretty much it, thanks in advance!

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Yep, it'll all be fine. Looks like the Alienware uses a mini-ITX. It'll look so tiny haha

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Lol, yeah, that's gonna look tiny, but should work fine. Since you seem inexperienced, I'll just toss out a reminder not to forget standoffs. I've seen more than a few people transplanting motherboards forget them. Have fun!

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Thanks! But what about the laptop style PSU that was on the X51? Will the motherboard have any problems adapting from that one to the new one?

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The CX600 will work fine. Uses the same connections.

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Your Alienware probably has some kind of PSU board/module that takes that external power block and basically has all the connections a standard PSU has. So connection wise, it shouldn't be any different than the CX600 (well, the module probably has fewer connections, but otherwise). It'll work fine.

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650D and an itx board, oh dear..... There wont be any compatibility problems, just a whole heap of empty space in the case. Something cheap like a Coolermaster Elite 130 would have sufficed.