Antec 900 liquid cooling

MatteRB26 · 25 Dec 2019 at 22:46

So I'm looking at moving to liquid cooling in the new year for my new Ryzen as I've given my old Hyper 212 to my in-law in the pc I did for him.

My trouble is the case I have is an Antec 900 and seen a lot of horror stories about the case and getting liquid coolers to fit. A lot of people have had to cut holes in the case, cut parts out etc... But from what I've seen, their case is actually slightly different to mine.

It's most definitely an Antec 900, but from images and videos etc. the panel that holds the motherboard in their cases has no hole for a cooling bracket, it's just a sheet of aluminium. Now my case has a large gap there already to fit a bracket (hence why I was able to easily fit my Hyper 212...).

Is it possible that Antec "revamped" the case and I got a newer model or something? Or does anyone here have an Antec 900 with liquid cooling? I'm interested in the Corsair H100i because I've seen nothing but good things, and it looks super pretty.

Edit: I've literally just looked at the Antec 900 on the ocuk site (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/antec-900-nine-hundred-ultimate-gaming-case-black-ca-065-an.html) and it looks different to mine inside. Mine has a large cutout on the motherboard panel, and that weird centre fan behind the drive bays isn't there...

MatteRB26 · 25 Dec 2019 at 22:59

'scuse the mess, but here's a shot that I have of the inside of my case:

As you can see, there's many cutouts in my case compared to the images online.

Avathar77 · 25 Dec 2019 at 23:36

There are 2 versions of this.
I think your one is the older(v1). V2 has an all black interior (I have that as a file server)

MatteRB26 · 26 Dec 2019 at 06:54

Avathar77 said:
There are 2 versions of this.
I think your one is the older(v1). V2 has an all black interior (I have that as a file server)

I can't even find a v1 or V2 that look similar on the exterior? If I search for Antec 900 V2 I get pictures of the 902 which are definitely different to mine (note the different top fan design).

Would it be possible to give an idea of it could support an H100 from photos...? It's got the pipe holes in the back so it doesn't make sense for it to not support liquid coolers...

LuckyBenski · 26 Dec 2019 at 10:45

Tubing holes in the case are a throwback from when water cooling meant buying car and pond parts, and running tubes out of the case to a big radiator elsewhere. So it doesn't really mean much in terms of modern water cooling capability, there's kind of a whole generation of cases inbetween classic water cooling and modern plug-and-play stuff.