Hows the Antec 900?

I was looking at it, and I think it's the one I'm getting for my build in January. I've heard it's small, but a great case.
 
Nice and quiet here while some have complaints for some reason. The additional 120mm case fan in the front provides more air flow seeing a low drive and board temp then the old case here with a single 140mm for front intake. The twin fans are a big help when running multiple hard drives as well. For those wanting liquid coolers the complaint is a lack of space for the reservoirs.
 
It looks like it has lots of grates with fans to allow airflow. Does this mean it will be dustier than a more closed case?
 
I have this case myself and I must say it's a case of high quality. Solid construction even the plastic parts feel very strong and durable. The 200mm fan on top does it job very well on sucking additional hot air away from around the CPU. The two 120mm in front really do move a lot of cool air in and due to the mesh covers, most of the dust is being collected on the mesh and all you gotta do is wipe it off with tissue every few days. You will find the inside to stay surprisingly clean for a good while before you actually need to clean it. This is a very good case and a lot of room to work with for a mid-tower.
 
I'm in a dust environment here where I just opened the case up to swap out tv tuner cards with the new one seeing results on Vista and found no dust inside while the front grating around the fans saw the dust starting to accumilate there. You'll always find that the dust starts around the fan on any case since the rear of the fan acts like a magnet.
 
It's a really good mid-tower case. I've suggested to other members that they purchase a modular power supply if they plan to use the 900. There's not a lot of room to manage cables, IMO.
 
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For the power + reset buttons plus eSata and usb ports the harness there is neatly tucked to one side with a plastic strap. That's a little different then cases seeing those coming in from the front. It may seem a little awkward to some if they use round ide cables since those have to pressed in and twisted in order to plus those into the board and drives. For strictly sata on the other hand there's plenty of room since those are much thinner.
 
1394 firewire would have to go through the pci slot area since the ports seen at the top front are for one eSata and two usb there along with the power and reset buttons. It does have a nice tray recessed into the top for something like a web cam. That board will drop in like any other atx standard type.

The harness coming down from the top simply plugs into the second blocks for usb and one of the sata ports found on the board. That's merely an extension cord for using a sata drive externally there. There's alos a headphone and line in pair of 1/8" mini jacks where the booklet included will help.

Here I run one of the two optical drives slaved to the ide model hard drive Vista is currently on and three sata drives(1 sata dvd burner -2 WD 500gb). I did have to squeeze the round ide cable here in order to see that plugged due to the extra drives used here.

For a single optical and one hard drive you can easily stretch that out depending on the drive bay used. The hard drive there would go into the top drive cage that pulls out forward along with the 120mm fan on the front of it. Once you slide the drive in and secure it the cage slides back in. There are 4 thumb screws for each drive cage that hole those inplace.
 
Doesn't this case have a firewire port on the front? Newegg says it does.

Also, I have one more question, hopefully my last. Will this board (below) the gigabyte p35-ds3L support a IEEE 1394 port built in on the case? I haven't done this before, so I'm assuming there's some sort of cables running from the port, and you plug it into a port on the motherboard. What is this port the cable plugs into called?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059
 
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1394 fireware is often used with an addon card that goes into a pci slot. Never using the top or front ports on any cases that would be one firewire port along with two usb ports seen at the top inbetween the reset button, line in and headphones jacks on the left with the power button at the far right on the top front section in the recess there.

Antec has a good video clip that goes through everything about the case seen on their product information page. http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=15900
 
Nice video, I'm excited to get this case now. I like how it's so customizable. The guys such a loser though, lol.
 
The idea with the clip there is show how flexible the drive bays are along with the expansion ports and extra air flow seen by having twin 120s in front and the large 200mm fan on the top. That's why it's an excellent gaming case without water cooling setups like needed on many others just due to having no good air flow.
 
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