My Antec 902 Build (with Pics)

Terrier_Jimlad · 31 Mar 2009 at 21:45

Figured i'd stick up some pics I took when building my new Antec 902 this weekend, apologies for the poor quality cam pics and blurry few, taken off my old camera phone

Parcelforce guy woke me up at 7:50am on a SATURDAY, wasn't too bothered though as he brought me these goodies:

Case out the box

Side View

Artic Cooler 7 fitted on the board, figured i'd do this prior to the board going in as it initially looked a tight squeeze

Distance between the bottom of the cooler and the Asus heatsink was rather close lol

Bit of a mess

Velociraptor and Samsung F1 in their cages, grrrr!!

4870 Fitted, but was VERY close to the EPU heatsink lol

Card itself looks really well in a black interior case

Bit of RAM bashing

Back of the crappy old Soundblaster card is a few mm's from the heatink on the RAM

Ultra blur time!

All up and running

Couple of niggly things really ...

1) The case fans and gpu fan is extremely quiet, but the artic cooler 7 fan was out of the box spinning up at 100% so was deafening lol ... uses Asus's FanTweak to drop it down to near silent

2) Couldnt get the RAM to run at full 1066MHz despite mine and a few others off here's best efforts ... just leaving it sat at 800MHz at the moment

3) The 2 front USB ports dont quite give enough power for some of my usb powered external hard disks ... not sure why though ... some work, some dont, so have to use some at the rear

Overall very pleased with the build ... it's extremely cool inside, and has my CPU sat down at 35º idle ... love the build quality too!

LukeTW · 31 Mar 2009 at 21:58

Nice build, though could do with some cable tidying

Hamoodii · 31 Mar 2009 at 22:13

Nice build :cool:

But the roof fan is so big it makes it look like it's about to take off

ThundyCat · 31 Mar 2009 at 22:42

Nice build there fella well done.

Kennysevenfold · 31 Mar 2009 at 22:54

Lucky son of a gun

RJC · 31 Mar 2009 at 22:58

Very Nice

Ben M · 31 Mar 2009 at 23:01

It looks like such a respectable case until the lights are on =(

nice build. get that Q9650 going at more than 3ghz though, you massive girl

benjo · 31 Mar 2009 at 23:01

Nice build. Never understood why Antec insist on putting the watercooling holes vertically at that position on the back of the case. If you mount the rad on the back, it's just awkward getting the tubing to the radiator without it kinking unless you make it come back on itself.

NeoVo · 31 Mar 2009 at 23:52

Nice little setup, looking into getting the p5q-e myself.

Terrier_Jimlad · 1 Apr 2009 at 11:58

yeah it's a good board, cant seem to get the RAM at full speed though using the BIOS ...

I got the kit last Saturday, and the BIOS on it was like 8 months old, so had to do a flash at first ...

Ewanb75 · 1 Apr 2009 at 14:27

Cant see pics, sob sob.

misterPK · 1 Apr 2009 at 15:26

Pics work for me.

PK!

ian|Squared² · 1 Apr 2009 at 22:27

Hamoodii said:
Nice build

But the roof fan is so big it makes it look like it's about to take off

LOL

Ewanb75 · 2 Apr 2009 at 00:50

Can see the pics now am at home on my own pc

Been frittering about tonight myself with the 902, had to test a psu, and then spent rest of the night trying to salvage my pc frm death, but it works now.

Anyhoo...

tested psu, moved some wires about, and threw in this..

The Antec Veris

Media Station with fancy remote that can use your mouse and whole pc..

Its mostly my old kit going into the 902, e6600, gigabyte dq6, 4gb reaperX, 4870 and a modular psu.

I have a watercooling kit as well I may try and fit, If i can suss out how to get the crazy cool off my gigabyte board.. this weekend should be fun.

Terrier_Jimlad · 3 Apr 2009 at 11:05

how much do they cost like?

Ewanb75 · 3 Apr 2009 at 11:25

Got the Veris for £50, its online from anywhere between £50 and £120. Waterloop off the mm for £45

FaceplantSi · 3 Apr 2009 at 15:37

Nice build, shame that the cabling outside the case isn't as nice as it is inside tho... lol!