How to make an Antec 1200 feel cramped....

RobinGopher · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:04

It really isn't as roomy as it looks from the outside!

Hard drive need moving to fit a HD5870, Mugen2 fits pefectly - fiddly cretin that.

bob055 · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:37

what cpu cooler is that????!

Sindri · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:40

That cooler is insane, must give pretty good temps?

cook001 · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:45

Always thought that the 1200 was the opposite to the tardis (big on the outside small on the inside

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JoeFX69 · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:46

Is that a Mugen 2?

b-star · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:47

How many HDD's you have?

here's mine, have no issues with space at all, as tidiet almost everythin' everywhere:

NeoVo · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:50

It does indeed look cramped.

Though im sure you could make it less cramped if you did some cable management

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Dutchman · 17 Oct 2009 at 16:07

NeoVo said:
Though im sure you could make it less cramped if you did some cable management .

+1, obvious that you've made no attempt to tidy your cables so it will look and feel cramped. And what is that running over the top of the graphics card ?
Look at b-star's pics, that's how it should be done !

The Funktopus · 17 Oct 2009 at 18:11

Looks like his P8 connector from his PSU to his CPU. Had to do the same thing to make mine reach in my ye olde P180.

Th3D0n · 17 Oct 2009 at 19:25

Not as cramped as my antec 900

PermaBanned · 17 Oct 2009 at 19:32

Yeah, not even worth trying to do cable management there

Kennysevenfold · 17 Oct 2009 at 19:39

Im not even going to post a pic of my 300

NeoVo · 17 Oct 2009 at 20:20

Heres my much smaller 300, its amazing what you can do with a cramped case if you spend a couple of hours sorting it.

Kennysevenfold · 17 Oct 2009 at 20:24

NeoVo said:
if you spend a couple of hours sorting it.

Kennysevenfold · 17 Oct 2009 at 20:50

Mine

Grimley · 17 Oct 2009 at 22:23

JoeFX69 said:
Is that a Mugen 2?

it is if google images are right.

Hotwired · 18 Oct 2009 at 02:52

It is, it's also one of the very best air coolers.

Audigex · 18 Oct 2009 at 03:26

I find antec cases to be quite "small" on the inside. My 300 and friend's 900 and 180 all feel smaller to work in than my Cooler Master 300 - which is smaller than all 3.

maddness · 18 Oct 2009 at 09:56

i hated my antec 1200, it was awkward to use, definitely small on the inside (due to tthe full column drive bay section), then wires everywhere, impossible to mod, it had to go

RobinGopher · 19 Oct 2009 at 14:58

it is a mugen2

yes it is a Mugen2, which I chose after looking @ reviews and deciding I was not paying twice as much for a Thermaltake 120. Temps are idle 25C and load seems to go up to about 50 but drops the instant load goes away, certainly impressive after 3 years with a stock cooler.

Cable management is somewhat dictated by what you have, I have a Silverstone Strider ST60F (before they fixed the GPU rails) PSU that wasn't exactly well endowed on the SATA power front. So there are adaptors etc
There are 3 hard drives to supply, and as you can see my 4pin power cable was kinda short - thats the only route that fits.
Antec just like Thermltake (in my experience with my Xaser III) refuse to put the epic number of case fans on a nice loom or even perish the thought terminate them all on one pcb mounted connector. One Molex would power all of them easily, so why one each?
Beleive it or not there are so many cables tidied down the rear of the tray the side barely shuts.
A complete cable management solution would have me in there with a set of molex crimps and some snips- but I cannot be bothered, the wires aren't in the way the massive drive bay thing is.