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this is the antech 100 so it is

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self-described as gaming performance that won't break your bank the 100 a

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member of an's legendary line of gaming cases and I will agree with them about

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that the 100 series with standouts like the 900 the 300 have been a staple for

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gamers everywhere I remember going to fraa palooza uh gee I guess it was a

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couple years ago but I did a bit of a walk around uh through the entire

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uh whatever it was it was like a warehouse or an arena or something where

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they had all those people crammed into and uh I was I I couldn't help noticing

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as I was walking around that probably

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about 20 to 30% of the people there had

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either an antech 900 or a 300 and when you have that kind of dominance in terms

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of market share it's it's impressive regardless of what kind of product

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category you're talking about so let's see if the 100 live up to the tradition

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of those great cases now based on the

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naming scheme and knowing already that the 300 is a pretty value oriented

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gaming case and the 200 is even more so I would venture a guess that the 100 is

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all about value features versus uh

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luxury features but we're going to see

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exactly what this case is all about in just a moment here so here we go why

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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

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every gamer necessarily wants a window on their case so I'm just going to try

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and find somewhere to stand where I can uh easily point at things but not block

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all the light you know what I'm going to move to this side okay so the 100 we

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have on the outside full mesh in the

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front so this is just like we're used to seeing this is a bit of a tighter mesh

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versus what we've seen in the past on 100 series cases although it doesn't

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look to me as though it's going to restrict air flow in any meaningful way

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we've got an an nice uh silver and black antec logo down here at the bottom and

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it looks like you can actually move this around should you so desire because it's

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just on a 5 and 1/4 in uh cover all

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right we've got a pretty traditional looking 100 series look so this looks

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just like the 300 in terms of these Ridges at the front we've got our power

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switch no reset switch microphone headphones power as well as hard drive

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LEDs and we have Forefront USB 2.0 so we

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don't have any USB 3.0 on this case although that is to be expected for a

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value chassis uh go ahead and stay uh stay where you are I'll rotate the case

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so on the side we've got an optional 120 mm fan Mount and then on the top we've

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actually got a pre-populated 140 mm fan so that's going

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to provide a lot of ventilation for the CPU area and then if you do install a

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power hungry and heat generating GPU you can also install a fan back there here

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we've got another 120 mm fan in the back and then we also find a fairly standard

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layout in the rest of the back of the cas this is interesting look at this

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Okay so we've got our IO shield and then we got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight PCI slots so

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this may be one of the best value cases on the market that is capable of

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accommodating some of those extended motherboards that have more than seven

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PCI slots that's kind of neat don't forget too there is a use for this

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bottom piece PCI slot sometimes even if your motherboard does not have extra

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slots for example the Gigabyte x58

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extreme our ex58 extreme whatever it was

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had a PCI Express 16x slot at the very bottom so if you wanted to run three-way

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Crossfire or SLI you actually needed either an empty space or an extra PCI

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slot at the very bottom in order to install a dual slot graphics card in

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that bottom one so there you have it bottom mounted power supply okay so

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standard ATX only we don't have any support for n CPX standard and we're

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going to go ahead and take these side panels off so entech has included thumb screws which is fortunate because I left

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my screwdriver upstairs okay we're going to take off the side panel there's a

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little bit of flex in the side panel but you have to expect that on a on a more

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value oriented case one of the tricks that I've often used in the past

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um with thinner metal cases especially

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if you run into a situation where the side panel is vibrating or something

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like that like you install a fan here here and some of that vibration gets transferred to the side panel is you can

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actually put little bits of blue sticky tack on the inside of the panel where it

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contacts the case and that can eliminate any vibration so there's the other side

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panel go ahead take that off find somewhere to put it and here is the

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inside of the case so the first thing we find inside is a

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survey of all things so you should go to

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that URL should you so desire and then

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yeah okay we've got some Hardware so there's some soft silicon silicone uh

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hard drive mounting grommets as well as screws and then we've got all the cases

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we need for the cases the screws we need for mounting the motherboard in the case

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and any drives and all that good stuff that we may require okay here on the

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inside we've got a couple little raised spots for the power supply to Mountain

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however looking at the overall design of the case I'd say I'd recommend mounting

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your power supply with the fan up so that way you're going to make sure

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you're getting enough air flow into your fan some cases do have um mesh here at

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the bottom so that you can mount it fans side down but I don't think I'd do that

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in this particular case we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 and 1/2 in Bays although I can

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verify that if I actually check that yeah we've got six internal 3 and 1/2

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three external 5 and 1/4 in bays and then we have one internal mounted 2.5 in

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SSD mounting Bay so actually you can see that if I turn the case this way there

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are our mounting points for installing an SSD in the 100 it looks like we've

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also got two front 120 mm fan mounts so

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the way those are going to be accessed is by pulling off the front

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bezel if I can figure out how to do it then I will gladly demonstrate for you

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guys okay one two three there we are

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okay so we can pull off the front bezel and from there it shouldn't be too

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challenging to figure out how to mount the fans although I can't quite figure

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it out ah Clips look at that

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okay I think okay give me a

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moment yeah it's that simple you just take your fan you line it up in the

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right spot and clip it in just like that so that's how you mount your fans and

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then you can go ahead and install the front bezel back onto your case being

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careful that the wires are running into their correct locations okay so that's

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pretty much everything I wanted to show you guys here at the front of the

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chassis so let's just see oh okay the way that hooks in is actually kind of

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neat so you can swing it out so then you can make sure everything hooks in

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correctly and then it Clips in on this side so I think that's pretty much

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everything there is to say about it we've got a motherboard uh motherboard

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tray cutout so you can install and uninstall a back plate requiring CPU

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heat sinks without taking your motherboard in or out of the case so

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that's a pretty nice conven venience Factor we've also got a little bit of

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cable management going on on the back here so they've included a couple zip

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ties as well as anchor points for a couple more although most of the thicker

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cables like your 8 Pin and like your 24 pin may or may not be able to run up the

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back of this motherboard tray kind of hard to say but I'm thinking I'm

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thinking maybe not um you know what

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though guys if anyone has a 100 please let me know if you were able to run your

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24 pin and your 8 Pin C power connector behind the back of the motherboard so

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