I'm pretty sure I heard Train say: "Illustrations! Of course we have illustrations!" lol

I believe that the biggest difference between Mid and full towers is the number of bays. A mid tower might have 2 3-1/2 inch bays and 4 5-1/4inch bays, whereas a full tower would have a few more of each. Also, a full tower would probably have more bays for case fans. Full towers are more for servers, I believe. Most home users should be fine with a mid-tower. And I believe that your motherboard should be fine in both types of towers.

I'll post some links to topics here at VDR. Read over these and take what applies to your system/system-to-be and see what works best. Some of these topics might have more than enough information for you, but they all deal with cooling. And some of it may be repetitive, but it can't hurt to read over it all.


Thermal Paste Questions
Silent fans
Heatsinks
Cooling
Fans
Case fans
Airflow
Cooling

I have an old, cheap, plain case and the vent holes they put on these are excellent at restricting airflow, so I cut out the hole in the back where my case fan blows out. So instead of having a dozen little holes I have one BIG one . I can literally feel the difference when I put my hand back there. My case fan's RPMs are lower, and my temperatures are somewhat lower, but that is also because it is winter here. And when I take off the plastic front cover of my case, the aluminum case is open in alot of spots, other than the spot designated for a case fan. So I covered up everything on the front except for a space for an 80mm case fan. Did that to keep the air coming in to be as low to the ground as possible to keep it as cool as possible. I think it worked because now at idle I'm running 47/48ºC where before I was running 50/51ºC.