Post your antec 300 lad's ;)

Ace Modder · 12 Jan 2011 at 09:19

Antec 100's arriving today. Lets compare the two.

Muel · 12 Jan 2011 at 11:47

On looks alone, the 300 is still by far my choice. The 100 looks better built with more features though. Each to their own, but I'll stick with my 300. I prefer something modded to make it better rather than something stock.

coolamasta · 12 Jan 2011 at 13:37

Few nice 300 builds there chaps, will get some of my dedicated FAH water cooled i7 970 rig up this week, managed to get a nice chunky rad in the front

PGdude · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:02

I bought my 300 because it looks subtly flash and badass.

Installing parts and making it tidy it was a whole new experience.

Changes since:
Did away with the bungee suspended hard drive, it's screwed in with the storage drive because I can't be bothered with it naymore.

To do list:
SATA Optcal Drive
Cut holes for better cable management
Get some of those flashy nice looking braided extension cables
Remove the masking tape >_>
Respray inside black?

And yeah I'll get some new components some other time. Q6600 and 5770 are fine for now.
Sound proof it, the noise sometimes...

C.K · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:10

C.K said:
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Just waiting for my GTX470 waterblock and tubing to arrive!

KiiYzOo · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:41

C.K said:
Just waiting for my GTX470 waterblock and tubing to arrive!

Wow thats Awesome nice work

buchtis · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:15

Please don't hurt me, but i've had to butcher my Antec 300 to fit a 5970.

FXL5 · 12 Jan 2011 at 19:13

What proportion of people take a dremel to their cases? Looks like a lot of you... I mean, I read the TBCS worklogs a fair bit, but they're being arty...this just seems practical modification.

C.K · 12 Jan 2011 at 23:27

Dremel? Nah, drill and jigsaw please!

Muel · 12 Jan 2011 at 23:52

Angle grinder, hammer & chisel and a drill here.

blitzyuk · 14 Jan 2011 at 00:15

diverse180 said:
Nope...it's ******* useless.

I got the dampening kit for free though, so I can't complain too much.

Save your money mate

Oh well cant really complain if it was free. I've sorted out the noise issue now i've got myself an NZXT Sentry LXE external have 4 fans connected and 4 temperature probes and its nice and quiet got all 3 fans running at 500rpm only thing i can notice noise from is memory cooler may have 2 small fans on but they are still loud.

This case is more appealing to me on looks just wish it had better cable management dont really fancy taking any cutting tools to it.

coolamasta · 14 Jan 2011 at 11:55

Heres my modded one (hdd mountings removed) its nothing special so wont bombard you with boring external pics as it looks standard from the outside

Its a dedicated folding@home machine so the graphics card is just a crappy ATI x300 so I can push maximum PPD out of the i7 970 hex core @ 4.4ghz.

For those that are interested its producing ~63,000 PPD running bigadv work units

.Ox. · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:24

coolamasta said:
Heres my modded one (hdd mountings removed) its nothing special so wont bombard you with boring external pics as it looks standard from the outside

Its a dedicated folding@home machine so the graphics card is just a crappy ATI x300 so I can push maximum PPD out of the i7 970 hex core @ 4.4ghz.

For those that are interested its producing ~63,000 PPD running bigadv work units

Lovely little machine. Love how you've fit everything inside.

UnworthyBean · 14 Jan 2011 at 23:11

Pictures are terrible and it doesnt do it justice but atleast it shows what ive been upto today. Reckon ive done a pretty good job of cable management considering theres 3 HDDs, one of them IDE and also the stupid positioning of the 24 pin cable.

Next on the mod list will be a window, And hopefully along with that ill knock up a little piece of metal to whack in that big gap at the bottom right, will probably look a lot tidier.

Krellor · 16 Jan 2011 at 15:53

I've often looked at my 300 and would never have thought that there would be enough room behind the MB and side panel for the psu cables. Do you get any bulge on the side panel?

killerk · 16 Jan 2011 at 16:36

Like the 300's with the black inside. Makes me want one.

Gangster · 16 Jan 2011 at 17:27

Gotta admit the 300 with no hard drive bays makes it look a lot better.

blitzyuk · 24 Jun 2011 at 01:23

Made a hole in case by motherboard for cable management. Can still see the cables but at least they are not all in front of the hdd bays now nicely tucked to the side. Only thing is as i have the NZXT Sentry LXE External fan controller there is a lot more cables showing for the fans and temp probes. Routed some of them down the motherboard by the gpu's and down the side by the blanking plates. A lot better than it was. Will need a bigger case if i want to add more components.

A hidden mess of cables.

stulid · 24 Jun 2011 at 01:29

^
Whats that over the RAM? looks out of place.

blitzyuk · 24 Jun 2011 at 01:39

Its an OCZ ram cooler with 2 fans i had it in old pc and didnt want to throw it. Didnt think ram would be cool enough without it. I have Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz installed. Just noticed on some of the previous pics. Some of you have 4 lots of ram sticks does that not effect performance i know my board is dual channel didnt think you could fill them all (haven't got a clue about ram).