Thanks for the answers :)

By footprint I'm mostly talking about resources required to run. I'm a bencher and a gamer, and resources running in the background drive me insane, so I'm just wondering how much ram on average LCDC takes up while running in the background. I wish there was another way to ...

1) Will modules of this size : http://www.matrixorbital.com/pages/product_view.asp?CatID=1&ProductID=57 fit (with properly modded cover) fit into a 5.25" bay? What I mean is that you can mod some aluminum to fit around the display only and have the PCB hidden behind everything and it will fit a 5.25 ...