Antec's New Case - The Antec 900

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Spotted this over on TomsHardware today, not seen anything anywhere about it, so I thought I'd share with you.

Antec 900 Pictures
TomsHardware

Apologies if this counts a competitor, but its an American website ;)

If you get to see the pictures, then check out the cooling possibilities of it! and is that a 160mm Fan IN THE ROOF ?!

Hmm, so thats a 120.2 rad in the front, a Thermochill 160.1 in the top...
 
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That looks hideous, you only need two case fans aswell, watercooling aside.

Stacker 830 wannabe, not a good start.

Oh well at least when its design flaws break Antec will be there to help you through it.
 
I agree, its doesn't ooze 'take me to bed I'm that good looking' ..... I'm just thinking of the possibility of getting a 120.2 rad in there.....

Plus that is a monstrous fan in the roof... I think this is more anti Eclipse 62 territory, than Anti Stacker.
 
Ahh, missed my point slightly, I mean its going for the stacker 830 massive fan loud out style of cooling, with the same silly top to the case. I want to put my CD's / PDA on top of the case. :(

It may well cool as well as the Eclipse or better, just hope it can do it with one in and one out.
 
Looks are a matter of taste; it has an unrefined, industrial look to it which isn't to my taste but will probably appeal to some people. I still think it looks miles better than some of the gaudy monstrosities perpetrated upon the world by Thermaltake.

As for the number of fans, there's nothing wrong with having a lot of them, you could just undervolt them and get adequate airflow with less noise. I doubt people buying this case will be worried about noise, though.
 
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Has to be the ugliest case Antec have ever released, Acres of taty plastic it lookes like they designed the inards and then ran out of time to do the external look so just gave up and released it. I'm disapointed as Antecs recent stuff like the NSK range and the Solo were starting to show some real class.
 
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Looks are a matter of taste; it has an unrefined, industrial look to it which isn't to my taste but will probably appeal to some people. I still think it looks miles better than some of the gaudy monstrosities perpetrated upon the world by Thermaltake.

As for the number of fans, there's nothing wrong with having a lot of them, you could just undervolt them and get adequate airflow with less noise. I doubt people buying this case will be worried about noise, though.
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Agree, disagree.

I prefer to have the bare minimum fans running to cool my system, and them volt modded. Not only does that save money on buying fans but its actually quieter to my ear. One fan at 20db is quieter, to me, than two at 20db just because the sound seems less 'full'.

Less is better, if a case only has one in one out its already in my good books, that is all that is really needed, large hard drive capacity, two in one/two out but thats it, and then you can run it optional as you still have the capacity for the standard one in one out airflow pattern if you run few hard drives.
 
I have 1 in 1 out, both 120mm, both undervolted, and it's barely enough to cool my oven of a P4 rig. :P

CFM/noise for one fan isn't a linear relationship in my experience, and doubling the CFM of my current fans would make them much noisier. Adding 2 more virtually silent undervolted fans would double the CFM and maky hardly any difference to noise levels.

However, I don't think this is the case for people aiming for a quiet system, and I doubt the supplied fans are the quietest available. But I don't think this will put many people off, as so many just don't care about noise. A few days ago, a friend told me he wanted to get Delta fans for his case. :rolleyes:
 
Delta fans only make sense once you have lived with them. :D

120 / 120 is enough to cool a PDEE in the Eclipse, which is a pre-2000 design, if that case can do it any can really.
 
Lol! just goes to show there is no accounting for peoples taste,

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I like it :)
 
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