this is the antech 100 so it is
self-described as gaming performance that won't break your bank the 100 a
member of an's legendary line of gaming cases and I will agree with them about
that the 100 series with standouts like the 900 the 300 have been a staple for
gamers everywhere I remember going to fraa palooza uh gee I guess it was a
couple years ago but I did a bit of a walk around uh through the entire
uh whatever it was it was like a warehouse or an arena or something where
they had all those people crammed into and uh I was I I couldn't help noticing
as I was walking around that probably
about 20 to 30% of the people there had
either an antech 900 or a 300 and when you have that kind of dominance in terms
of market share it's it's impressive regardless of what kind of product
category you're talking about so let's see if the 100 live up to the tradition
of those great cases now based on the
naming scheme and knowing already that the 300 is a pretty value oriented
gaming case and the 200 is even more so I would venture a guess that the 100 is
all about value features versus uh
luxury features but we're going to see
exactly what this case is all about in just a moment here so here we go why
don't we turn it this way first the first thing I noticed about it is it doesn't have a window which is fine not
every gamer necessarily wants a window on their case so I'm just going to try
and find somewhere to stand where I can uh easily point at things but not block
all the light you know what I'm going to move to this side okay so the 100 we
have on the outside full mesh in the
front so this is just like we're used to seeing this is a bit of a tighter mesh
versus what we've seen in the past on 100 series cases although it doesn't
look to me as though it's going to restrict air flow in any meaningful way
we've got an an nice uh silver and black antec logo down here at the bottom and
it looks like you can actually move this around should you so desire because it's
just on a 5 and 1/4 in uh cover all
right we've got a pretty traditional looking 100 series look so this looks
just like the 300 in terms of these Ridges at the front we've got our power
switch no reset switch microphone headphones power as well as hard drive
LEDs and we have Forefront USB 2.0 so we
don't have any USB 3.0 on this case although that is to be expected for a
value chassis uh go ahead and stay uh stay where you are I'll rotate the case
so on the side we've got an optional 120 mm fan Mount and then on the top we've
actually got a pre-populated 140 mm fan so that's going
to provide a lot of ventilation for the CPU area and then if you do install a
power hungry and heat generating GPU you can also install a fan back there here
we've got another 120 mm fan in the back and then we also find a fairly standard
layout in the rest of the back of the cas this is interesting look at this
Okay so we've got our IO shield and then we got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight PCI slots so
this may be one of the best value cases on the market that is capable of
accommodating some of those extended motherboards that have more than seven
PCI slots that's kind of neat don't forget too there is a use for this
bottom piece PCI slot sometimes even if your motherboard does not have extra
slots for example the Gigabyte x58
extreme our ex58 extreme whatever it was
had a PCI Express 16x slot at the very bottom so if you wanted to run three-way
Crossfire or SLI you actually needed either an empty space or an extra PCI
slot at the very bottom in order to install a dual slot graphics card in
that bottom one so there you have it bottom mounted power supply okay so
standard ATX only we don't have any support for n CPX standard and we're
going to go ahead and take these side panels off so entech has included thumb screws which is fortunate because I left
my screwdriver upstairs okay we're going to take off the side panel there's a
little bit of flex in the side panel but you have to expect that on a on a more
value oriented case one of the tricks that I've often used in the past
um with thinner metal cases especially
if you run into a situation where the side panel is vibrating or something
like that like you install a fan here here and some of that vibration gets transferred to the side panel is you can
actually put little bits of blue sticky tack on the inside of the panel where it
contacts the case and that can eliminate any vibration so there's the other side
panel go ahead take that off find somewhere to put it and here is the
inside of the case so the first thing we find inside is a
survey of all things so you should go to
that URL should you so desire and then
yeah okay we've got some Hardware so there's some soft silicon silicone uh
hard drive mounting grommets as well as screws and then we've got all the cases
we need for the cases the screws we need for mounting the motherboard in the case
and any drives and all that good stuff that we may require okay here on the
inside we've got a couple little raised spots for the power supply to Mountain
however looking at the overall design of the case I'd say I'd recommend mounting
your power supply with the fan up so that way you're going to make sure
you're getting enough air flow into your fan some cases do have um mesh here at
the bottom so that you can mount it fans side down but I don't think I'd do that
in this particular case we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 and 1/2 in Bays although I can
verify that if I actually check that yeah we've got six internal 3 and 1/2
three external 5 and 1/4 in bays and then we have one internal mounted 2.5 in
SSD mounting Bay so actually you can see that if I turn the case this way there
are our mounting points for installing an SSD in the 100 it looks like we've
also got two front 120 mm fan mounts so
the way those are going to be accessed is by pulling off the front
bezel if I can figure out how to do it then I will gladly demonstrate for you
guys okay one two three there we are
okay so we can pull off the front bezel and from there it shouldn't be too
challenging to figure out how to mount the fans although I can't quite figure
it out ah Clips look at that
okay I think okay give me a
moment yeah it's that simple you just take your fan you line it up in the
right spot and clip it in just like that so that's how you mount your fans and
then you can go ahead and install the front bezel back onto your case being
careful that the wires are running into their correct locations okay so that's
pretty much everything I wanted to show you guys here at the front of the
chassis so let's just see oh okay the way that hooks in is actually kind of
neat so you can swing it out so then you can make sure everything hooks in
correctly and then it Clips in on this side so I think that's pretty much
everything there is to say about it we've got a motherboard uh motherboard
tray cutout so you can install and uninstall a back plate requiring CPU
heat sinks without taking your motherboard in or out of the case so
that's a pretty nice conven venience Factor we've also got a little bit of
cable management going on on the back here so they've included a couple zip
ties as well as anchor points for a couple more although most of the thicker
cables like your 8 Pin and like your 24 pin may or may not be able to run up the
back of this motherboard tray kind of hard to say but I'm thinking I'm
thinking maybe not um you know what
though guys if anyone has a 100 please let me know if you were able to run your
24 pin and your 8 Pin C power connector behind the back of the motherboard so
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