welcome to my unboxing of the 1100 from antech the advanced gaming Authority is
what they have to say about this case and I'm kind of inclined to agree with
them at this point based on what I've seen about the 1100 so far maximum
expandability that is up to 330 mm long
expansion cards and for whatever reason they don't mention it but they've also
gotten nine expansion slots which is madness Okay maximum cooling so they're
showing all the different places you can install cooling fans including two here
two here two uh one big one here one here and one here okay we've got ease of
use which shows you how you can route your cables they even show braiding the
cables behind and that is because they have an inordinate amount of space
behind the motherboard tray uh so you can actually close your panel even if
you're running thick old cables like this PSU intake and front fan filters
fan connector PCB which allows you to connect four three pin fans to a single
Molex for improved Cable Management which is true 120 mil intake at the back
120 mil thermal okay yep we've covered most of this oh look that two more 120
Ms on the side this hard drive Mount I'm going to show you this is cool front
panel USB 3 and three tooless 5 and a/4 in Drive Bays which I have seen in
action already and they do actually work really well which is good I'm actually
usually not a huge fan of tooless um
unless it's like a tech station or something because
I don't know something about just putting a screw in it makes it feel more
secure and safe to me
but I guess it doesn't really matter so
let's go ahead and extract the
1100 from its box which as always is
very well packaged uh ante is pretty has been doing this a long
time so they're using a good quality Clos cell foam with about one inch of
padding on all sides which is pretty much a necessity if you want the case to
um make it in one piece we've actually had sample cases arrive uh that were not
packed with closed cell foam that looked like they had been shipped not from
California but from the depths of Hell to reach us so yeah this
one now that I've said all that is in
Immaculate condition which is good okay okay uh let's start at the front so the
1100 is actually very similar to the p280 in terms of the actual chassis
design uh but there are some key differences so we've got our three 5 and
1/4 in Bays our front headphones our front USB 2 our front USB 3 you can see
this power and reset button uh placement
has been reused from the p280 we've got tons of room for air intake so we've got
the mesh here and then these are also completely open see how I can stick my
finger through there so you're getting additional air flow through there as
well as the mesh the front pops off like
this there you go so you can see how open these are now check that out so
it's completely unrestricted air flow and now you can mount fans here and here
and check this out bumps here here here and here which allows you to install
these two fans with only four screws
which is easier and better for gamers because in my experience gamers are
nothing if not lazy no offense to the gamers
I'm sure you won't be offended though because I think you already knew that
there we go all right so let's go ahead and let's go this side first so here we
find our side panel window nice and big
I'm just going to take these Plastics off as we go we've also got room for two
rubber grommeted 120 mil fans once again
you can mount them using only four screws four of these are are just blanks
um that will hold the fan in place very very nice good thinking antech
it's those little innovations that make Gamers lives slightly slightly easier
that make them choose your product over someone else's so I'm going to take that
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
so here is a 120 mm cooling fan as well
as the io ports we've also got nine
expansion slots so yes up to XL ATX motherboards which is great if you want
to run three-way or four-way SLI ATX power supply and check this so see this
these cooling vents here that's for a good reason and I'm going to show you
why because you can actually install actually you know this is probably
easier to show from here so check this out you can install a 120 mm cooling fan
that blows directly at the back of the motherboard and then exhausts out
there now why would you want to do that
why well I will give you the reason see check this out very cool actually give
me a sec I'll go get my prop and then I'll be back all right here I have my
prop now guys I've got an x79 board and I'm going to show you why you might care
about having cooling on the back of the board check this out we have pwm
components on the back of this board because with all these dim slots there's
so little room on these x79 boards for them to put voltage regulation modules
check this out MSI board same thing heat sink on the back of the board what's
going to cool that heat sink in most cases nothing so having a little bit of
extra cooling although I probably wouldn't use it as
um an intake I would probably use it as an exhaust and just pull air from the
outside here and push it out um could be useful okay so let's keep going on the
inside of the case here accessories wise we've
got some zip ties some screws uh
toolless Drive rails which are really cool I'm going to show you these uh in a
minute actually uh but but here here's something to note about them is see how
they're bent that's on purpose so wait
uh we have a locking fan filter so you pull that out you just push it like that
now it's locked it won't come out and then you just push it down that's mostly
for shipping you just want to keep it unlocked if uh if you're actually using
the case right so you can pull that out clean it slide it back in uh it's more
convenient than the ones that are from the back of the case especially that
long one in the 800d that is kind of a pain to get out I know because I had to
do it the other weekend all right in terms of Drive mounting 1 2 3 4 5 6 3
and a half in drives here and check this out we've also got a toolless SSD Mount
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
it gets held there sorry guys here's my SSD here's that pressure mount so you
just kind of pop it in there so you can see there's some
friction you can put in a screw if you want right about there and then it will
be completely secure very cool not as cool as the 3 and 1/2 in Drive Mount
though which I am going to show you at some point ultra big CPU cutout and this
is handy because the motherboard CPU
spot socket positions keep changing so
if you have a case where they haven't built in some extra you know kind of
fudge factor for where it could be located then you might not end up being
able to access the back of the motherboard at all in which case you can't change the cooler so antech
thought of that they made the cutout as big as they possibly could and you can
see even on a new generation x79 board we have no no difficulty with that
there's that top 200 mil fan there's that um Molex to 4 3 pin fan connector
adapter dude ad so that is allowing us to easily manage the cables of these
fans right here and then we'll also actually I never showed you guys this on
the back we can also adjust the LEDs for the top fan we can turn them off or on
and then we can change fan speeds on the p280 but we can't do it on this one okay
what else we got here ah yes cable management check this out guys look how
thick that is at the back of the motherboard tray so you can put pretty
much like I don't know whatever you want back there and you can still close the
side panel because this is the border so you can put a 24 pin they show a braided
a couple braided cables coming up to the graphics cards on the on the back of the
box here are our cable management holes so you can see these are a nice uh loose
kind of rubber so you can uh put cables
through them pull them out and then it'll still be it'll still be blocked
from View and last but not least oh yeah
here eight pin full so you can run your eight pin connector up there to your the
top of your motherboard and then you've got also other miscellaneous stuff so you can bring down your front panel
connectors of which there are quite a few down this way down to the bottom of
your motherboard and then ha yes this is
probably one of the coolest things that I've seen in a while as far as hard
drive mounting goes because let's face it how interesting can hard drive mounting possibly be so we're going to
go ahead and how do this work ah yes
good put this on here okay so you just put that on you put that on there so
this isn't very cool yet right so you put this and you slide it into the case
and you guys are thinking lonus we've seen this before and I'm thinking yes
but not quite like this one okay now hard drives are worth a lot of money these days would I do this
whoa right okay now watch this I am going to protect a little bit just in
case Ah that's right once you put them on
they cannot be removed except easily like
this I know right so basically what antech has created by making this thing
bent um is a way to secure the hard
drive in a way that is very very secure from both sides you can see how much I'm
pulling on it look I'm actually bending the plastic bending the plastic even
more that's the trick so if you pull on it from the middle evenly the hard drive
cannot come out but if you remove it specifically from one side first then it
comes off easily so I thought that was neat um so thank you for checking out my
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