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welcome to my unboxing of the 1100 from antech the advanced gaming Authority is

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what they have to say about this case and I'm kind of inclined to agree with

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them at this point based on what I've seen about the 1100 so far maximum

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expandability that is up to 330 mm long

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expansion cards and for whatever reason they don't mention it but they've also

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gotten nine expansion slots which is madness Okay maximum cooling so they're

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showing all the different places you can install cooling fans including two here

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two here two uh one big one here one here and one here okay we've got ease of

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use which shows you how you can route your cables they even show braiding the

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cables behind and that is because they have an inordinate amount of space

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behind the motherboard tray uh so you can actually close your panel even if

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you're running thick old cables like this PSU intake and front fan filters

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fan connector PCB which allows you to connect four three pin fans to a single

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Molex for improved Cable Management which is true 120 mil intake at the back

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120 mil thermal okay yep we've covered most of this oh look that two more 120

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Ms on the side this hard drive Mount I'm going to show you this is cool front

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panel USB 3 and three tooless 5 and a/4 in Drive Bays which I have seen in

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action already and they do actually work really well which is good I'm actually

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usually not a huge fan of tooless um

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unless it's like a tech station or something because

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I don't know something about just putting a screw in it makes it feel more

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secure and safe to me

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but I guess it doesn't really matter so

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let's go ahead and extract the

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1100 from its box which as always is

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very well packaged uh ante is pretty has been doing this a long

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time so they're using a good quality Clos cell foam with about one inch of

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padding on all sides which is pretty much a necessity if you want the case to

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um make it in one piece we've actually had sample cases arrive uh that were not

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packed with closed cell foam that looked like they had been shipped not from

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California but from the depths of Hell to reach us so yeah this

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one now that I've said all that is in

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Immaculate condition which is good okay okay uh let's start at the front so the

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1100 is actually very similar to the p280 in terms of the actual chassis

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design uh but there are some key differences so we've got our three 5 and

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1/4 in Bays our front headphones our front USB 2 our front USB 3 you can see

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this power and reset button uh placement

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has been reused from the p280 we've got tons of room for air intake so we've got

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the mesh here and then these are also completely open see how I can stick my

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finger through there so you're getting additional air flow through there as

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well as the mesh the front pops off like

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this there you go so you can see how open these are now check that out so

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it's completely unrestricted air flow and now you can mount fans here and here

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and check this out bumps here here here and here which allows you to install

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these two fans with only four screws

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which is easier and better for gamers because in my experience gamers are

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nothing if not lazy no offense to the gamers

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I'm sure you won't be offended though because I think you already knew that

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there we go all right so let's go ahead and let's go this side first so here we

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find our side panel window nice and big

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I'm just going to take these Plastics off as we go we've also got room for two

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rubber grommeted 120 mil fans once again

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you can mount them using only four screws four of these are are just blanks

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um that will hold the fan in place very very nice good thinking antech

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it's those little innovations that make Gamers lives slightly slightly easier

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that make them choose your product over someone else's so I'm going to take that

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side panel off and we're going to go around to the other side panel actually we're going to do the back panel first

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so here is a 120 mm cooling fan as well

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as the io ports we've also got nine

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expansion slots so yes up to XL ATX motherboards which is great if you want

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to run three-way or four-way SLI ATX power supply and check this so see this

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these cooling vents here that's for a good reason and I'm going to show you

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why because you can actually install actually you know this is probably

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easier to show from here so check this out you can install a 120 mm cooling fan

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that blows directly at the back of the motherboard and then exhausts out

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there now why would you want to do that

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why well I will give you the reason see check this out very cool actually give

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me a sec I'll go get my prop and then I'll be back all right here I have my

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prop now guys I've got an x79 board and I'm going to show you why you might care

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about having cooling on the back of the board check this out we have pwm

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components on the back of this board because with all these dim slots there's

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so little room on these x79 boards for them to put voltage regulation modules

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check this out MSI board same thing heat sink on the back of the board what's

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going to cool that heat sink in most cases nothing so having a little bit of

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extra cooling although I probably wouldn't use it as

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um an intake I would probably use it as an exhaust and just pull air from the

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outside here and push it out um could be useful okay so let's keep going on the

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inside of the case here accessories wise we've

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got some zip ties some screws uh

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toolless Drive rails which are really cool I'm going to show you these uh in a

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minute actually uh but but here here's something to note about them is see how

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they're bent that's on purpose so wait

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uh we have a locking fan filter so you pull that out you just push it like that

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now it's locked it won't come out and then you just push it down that's mostly

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for shipping you just want to keep it unlocked if uh if you're actually using

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the case right so you can pull that out clean it slide it back in uh it's more

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convenient than the ones that are from the back of the case especially that

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long one in the 800d that is kind of a pain to get out I know because I had to

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do it the other weekend all right in terms of Drive mounting 1 2 3 4 5 6 3

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and a half in drives here and check this out we've also got a toolless SSD Mount

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this is a pressure mount so you just slide the SSD in I'm just going to grab an SSD so you just slide the SSD in and

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it gets held there sorry guys here's my SSD here's that pressure mount so you

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just kind of pop it in there so you can see there's some

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friction you can put in a screw if you want right about there and then it will

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be completely secure very cool not as cool as the 3 and 1/2 in Drive Mount

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though which I am going to show you at some point ultra big CPU cutout and this

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is handy because the motherboard CPU

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spot socket positions keep changing so

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if you have a case where they haven't built in some extra you know kind of

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fudge factor for where it could be located then you might not end up being

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able to access the back of the motherboard at all in which case you can't change the cooler so antech

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thought of that they made the cutout as big as they possibly could and you can

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see even on a new generation x79 board we have no no difficulty with that

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there's that top 200 mil fan there's that um Molex to 4 3 pin fan connector

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adapter dude ad so that is allowing us to easily manage the cables of these

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fans right here and then we'll also actually I never showed you guys this on

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the back we can also adjust the LEDs for the top fan we can turn them off or on

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and then we can change fan speeds on the p280 but we can't do it on this one okay

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what else we got here ah yes cable management check this out guys look how

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thick that is at the back of the motherboard tray so you can put pretty

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much like I don't know whatever you want back there and you can still close the

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side panel because this is the border so you can put a 24 pin they show a braided

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a couple braided cables coming up to the graphics cards on the on the back of the

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box here are our cable management holes so you can see these are a nice uh loose

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kind of rubber so you can uh put cables

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through them pull them out and then it'll still be it'll still be blocked

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from View and last but not least oh yeah

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here eight pin full so you can run your eight pin connector up there to your the

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top of your motherboard and then you've got also other miscellaneous stuff so you can bring down your front panel

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connectors of which there are quite a few down this way down to the bottom of

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your motherboard and then ha yes this is

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probably one of the coolest things that I've seen in a while as far as hard

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drive mounting goes because let's face it how interesting can hard drive mounting possibly be so we're going to

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go ahead and how do this work ah yes

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good put this on here okay so you just put that on you put that on there so

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this isn't very cool yet right so you put this and you slide it into the case

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and you guys are thinking lonus we've seen this before and I'm thinking yes

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but not quite like this one okay now hard drives are worth a lot of money these days would I do this

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whoa right okay now watch this I am going to protect a little bit just in

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case Ah that's right once you put them on

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they cannot be removed except easily like

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this I know right so basically what antech has created by making this thing

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bent um is a way to secure the hard

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drive in a way that is very very secure from both sides you can see how much I'm

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pulling on it look I'm actually bending the plastic bending the plastic even

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more that's the trick so if you pull on it from the middle evenly the hard drive

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cannot come out but if you remove it specifically from one side first then it

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comes off easily so I thought that was neat um so thank you for checking out my

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