welcome to my unboxing and first look at the antech
gx700 now you might have noticed that this box is an antech 900 box so we
actually got our sample scent before the gx700 had a proper retail box or
something like that so that's why we don't have a gx700 box but we have some
box to open so we're not going to worry too much about that you know being all
butt hurt about not having the right box and we do have the right case inside so
everything is is okay oh wait no okay I
see what they've done here they do have a box for the gx700 but it is actually
inside uh a 900 box or something and
we're just going to have to be creative about this and open it up
because there we go go away 900 box Hulk
rip with my thumb that hurts a lot
now ah ah there we
go it's sort of like a birthing
process one case born of another case
that is not actually related to it in any way which is like a Divine miracle
of okay you know what moving right along to the gx700 which we do have a box for and we
are going to start unboxing it we should just restart the video here because this
is ridiculous there we go so this is
aimed to be the every gamer case it has
the features that people want so it has things like top mounted radiator support
dual 120 there's a piece of foam that will apparently do something right there
okay uh hard foam on the outside this is a value oriented
case although when you do see the feature list I know that we saw this
case in the antech suite at CES and we all guessed higher numbers for the MSRP
than it actually is ouch this is a
reviewer's guide it's okay I've been briefed on this already
okay um so that's why you're going to see hard foam included it's not that
heavy so hopefully it's not going to cause any problems in shipping the one
place where I would kind of pause all right the one thing that would give me
pause it would be shipping a fully loaded gx700 in the stock box I don't
know how comfortable I'd be with that because um the additional weight of the
components inside does add additional
weight so let's start with the front panel front panel is pretty straightforward this you've got four 5
and a/4 inch Bays the way these clip in is actually kind of cool there you go
hold on you're going to notice something here whoa you hear that sound that's
because these front covers are are actually made of metal on this casee
it's been a long time since I've seen like a custom Uh custom metal front
panel on a okay I'm just going to give away the surprise on a
$69 case so very cool and there's some
functionality to the clips they actually clip this in place this piece is plastic
here this piece is plastic here so you're not going to have to worry about scratching the paint off of it cuz it's
colored plastic and then these parts are metal right here power button reset
switch hard drive and power LED these and then this is cool as well so there's
four thumb screws here this is a dog taggy style um chunk of metal as well
right here that just says gx700 and antec you can actually take it off if
you really wanted to there's uh it's just folded over the back so it's not
really uh it's not
really uh that difficult to remove and put something else on there and then
this piece right here is actually metal as well so this is just a cover for
hopefully I can yeah there we go this is just a cover for the there you go a
removable fan filter so you can pop that out clean
it pop it back in presumably because you
want your computer to be clean and then you can go ahead and thread these uh
thread these guys back in here I wish it was a little bit easier to get at but I
do like the aesthetic of the whole sort of you know thumb screws thing with the
rugged looking sort of case um front IO
this is where this is where the aesthetic sort of gets away from me a little bit cuz the front is very
obviously sort of a green and black theme whereas the top is mostly black
but then it's actually got green on the front IO so you can see two USB 3 2 USB
2 uh microphone headphone and this is
kind of cool actually this one I like here's the fan speed controller low
medium and high it has three switches for the integrated controller I just I
wish that this was green or something like that so that it looked more like
black with green accents right now it's just sort of black and then you've got a
little bit of green you could fix that up by putting like some spray painted
green fans under here or something like that then it would actually look pretty
cool so let's go ahead and have a look at the side which is black and the other
side which is also black you've got a 120 mm fan Mount here those fan mounts
in the top were 120/40 so you could do either a 120 or a 140 mil fan seven
expansion slots that's pretty standard bottom mounted power supply and then
you've got kind of a thing going on here forget how this works
I think you push it here and then it should there we go so that gives you
access to all the thumb screws back there so you just kind of oh hold on
switch to the wrong thing there we go are we good is that the right
thing ah ah what's going on there we go
okay good for some reason it's really really
dark we'll be back there we go we got
that fixed sorry about that guys it's a black case and it's a black table and
then there's a button right here that you press to get access to the thumb
screws so that you can toolless put in
PCI cards or whatever else you want also I made a mistake on the price point
before as was pointed out by both Diesel and Slick who told me that it's actually
59 so it's a $60 case and there's a 120
mil fan in the back so it's got three fans included which is already if you
you know buy fans they do cost money so
that's already something like a you know at least $20 value depending what kind
of fans you're buying so there you go side panel yeah it has some Flex to it
however it does have reinforcements here here and here in the typical sort of
antech fashion so you always know something built by antech is going to be
wellb built it's not just going to be sort of like a flimsy piece of metal
attached to another flimsy piece of metal interior wise we see the layout of
this case really start to shine here so
you've got the staple an Tech uh 3 and 1
half in Drive cages they're actually accessible from the other side panel on
this particular case I'm going to take off the thumb screws at the back here
and show you how they slide out from the other side here we go other side panel
is identical to the first one except that it's doesn't have the 120 mm fan
Mount here we go instructions pull them
out here so once you put a hard drive in the in these they will stiffen up
significantly and you can see it's got little uh little dots in here so those
will go into the hard drives they are completely toolless I kind of wish
they'd give you the option to screw them in um you can see there are no holes in
the side here you can also easily mount a 2 and 1/2 in drive on here uh by using
the holes that are in the bottom so you've got five hard drive sleds right
there and then uh since we're at the back anyway you can also see the
toolless mechanism for the 5 and a/4 inch Baye this is just operated by
twisting pulling off putting back on and then locking back into place again and
the 5 and a quar inch base do give you the option to screw in the drives a
large CPU cutout this is something that's become a bit of a standard
feature now as well as Cable Management Loops so you can see one two three Cable
Management Loops here on the back of the motherboard tray that allows you to keep
the cables flat which makes it easier to put the backside panel on I wouldn't
have minded seeing a little bit more room for cable management back here so I
think you're going to have trouble running a 24 pin um up the side here
however you can see they did leave space here where it goes in to run a 24 pin so
there's lots of room for an eight pin enough room for a 24 pin next to the
mother oh okay well that's what they intended okay never mind we don't need more space so 24 pin goes here and all
as well in my world from the front of
the case there's not a whole lot you can see that you couldn't see from the back to be perfectly honest there's your
power supply Mount so you do have a filtered there we go intake here at the
bottom show you guys that you can pull that out replace it no big deal you've
got four little dots that'll hold the power supply slightly off the bottom of
the case and then you've also got like I said before rear mounted power supply
this holds it in Cable Management goes here and then up the sides here so
you're able to bring them out for the optical Bays for graphics cards and then
here for the 24 pin for the CPU I did
say before that there was room for 120 mm uh dual 120 mm liquid cooler in the
top so you would be able to do that uh there's 140 mil fans there now but the
mounting holes are included for 120 and then you do have enough space you can
see the top of the motherboard will be about here so there's exactly enough
space for a rad there and then if you wanted you could also add another 120 mm
fan here and it looks like there would be enough space that you wouldn't have
any interference there which is actually quite cool so thank you for checking out
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videos and slick and Diesel also corrected me on another thing that I was
wrong about so the fan speed controller here is actually uh off low and high not
low medium and high so yeah sorry my bad