welcome to my unboxing of the antech one
now this is yeah I know you were expecting me to say 100 after that or
something right no no no this is just the antech 25 no no no not the antech 25
that's how many years ante has been
uh well around no the one is the model
number not the 25 no 100 the one so what
is the one all about the one is all about an up-to-date feature set good
ventilation sturdy construction we hope
we're about to find out that for sure although if it's antech that's pretty
much my expectation um even on their value cases they really don't make
anything flimsy I mean look at this they're still using double walled cardboard even for a value Orient case
now they have opted for a hard foam
versus um versus a soft foam which is
not my preferred way of doing things but given this is a more value case I think
we can forgive them for it because nobody should be loading up you know 60
lbs worth of computer hardware in a case like this this is more for you need a
basic system you want it to be ATX compatible so not not matx but you want
something fairly small with good ventilation Etc Etc so here is the an
actually that's not bad it looks kind of
like the um it looks kind of like a more upto-date
300 um actually we've got a 300 over there that's serving us quite well as
our Tech tips video editing machine so I
I do personally believe in the in fact that is the 300 that was part of the NC
Tech tips episode on thermal management where we took a crappy case and we uh s
we swapped it out for the 300 in order to demonstrate how much cooler your PC
can run if you have a case that is designed for optimal Cooling and there
it is all right so let's start with the externals we've got thumb
screws securing the side panels we have as I mentioned before ample ventilation
so here in the front we have a spot for our 120 mm cooling fan we also have
three 5 and 1/4 in base your antech logo your just nice Sleek lines USB 3 bam on
a value case like this that is a great thing to see reset switch power switch
headphones and microphone ports okay we've got a 120 mm cooling
fan included in the top as well as a
spot for what appears to be A40 mm fan on the side give me a sec
that might be 120 sorry guys it was just the styling of the honeycomb mesh that
confused me a little bit that is for a 120 mm fan so almost all of the fans in
this case are 12 you can see it uses uh
this sort of punched out style of design it still looks fairly Sleek you can see
from the front it's very Arrow Dynamic but from the back it's more wide and the
reason for that is it gives you space for this fan here without interfering
with your graphics card and gives you space for taller CPU coolers so there's
a very practical reason why they've done that all right oh yeah sorry I never
finished on the back so on the back we find an included IO Shield I haven't
seen one of those in a while very
nice and I see it's not any more up to date than they used to be there's your
spot for your parallel port which is evidently labeled Venus for some reason
sure whatever man okay and then we've got a 120 or 92 or 80 mil fan in the
back water cooling grommets which you're not very likely to use because you're
probably going to get one of those integrated liquid cooling things like
the 620 or the 920 then you've got seven PCI slots a bottom mounted power supply
very nice to see anch is still not neglecting awesome features like bottom
mounted power supplies even on a value case and we move to the inside so here
is the one spot in the case where you can put a 140 mm fan as a bottom intake
using the feed on the bottom you can see it's lifted up a fair amount off the off
the floor or table wherever you put it there's also a fan filter that is
removable here for your power supply intake fan so you can have air coming in
here cooling your power supply and going directly out and air also coming in here
to cool your graphics card or whatever ever else happens to be in this General
vicinity this is an invaluable include
you know I've always liked the word invaluable well hated it really because
the word invaluable implies that it has no value but you say invaluable to mean
very valuable so what's the dealo okay
so here is your USB 3 to usb2 adapter so
if you are putting together a value system that does not have a usb3 header
for those front usb3 you can just hook them up as USB 2 with the included
adapter thank you antech that is a very
fantastic inclusion also got a piece of paper thank you for that as well and
then we have a large CPU cutout so
that's so you can install pretty much any cooler you want without actually
removing the motherboard from the case there's your 120 mil fan plugs in with a
three pin header look at all these black cables anex is getting stylish look at
that also black cables for that guy so the only cooling that is included with
the cases the top and the back but you can still install as I mentioned before
here here and on the side panel in order
to get additional cooling now uh how does this work
fascinating you know what I'll be back in a moment now as a test of how easy
their toolless Drive configuration is to set up there's the back panel by the way
also got that bulge thing going on for
additional room for cable management in this case just going to lay that down as
a test of how easy their tooless configuration is I am going to figure it
out on camera the only thing I was doing off camera there was fetching myself
some drives to install so here we go
okay hey look at that they're including drive rails with like a $60 case that's
fantastic all right now we're going to put these here
presumably okay and then we're going to put these
here presumably
bam let's do one more just to show how quickly we can do it now that we are
seasoned veterans at installing this particular toolless drive system and
whoops bam love it so from the front
looks like this got like you know some cool honeycom ventilation looking thing
going on from the back you can see it's riveted in okay should be quite strong
that's been a problem with some cheaper cases in shipping with hard drives this
one you shouldn't have that issue although I'd feel a little bit better if
you could screw them in but I guess they're not really going anywhere once you have a side panel closed on this
side this is interesting so this is like a big like rubber thing going on so I
guess that oh fascinating so they've put this in in order to keep the motherboard
tray cuz you see they cut out so much of it for that enlarged CPU Cooler they
wanted to reinforce it in some way so once you put a motherboard on here it's
not going this way but in order to keep it from flexing they've got this RI
riging it up I know rigid isn't a word but making it more rigid uh during
shipping or whatever else oh that's cool all we've got lots of cable
management tie down places here you can run your eight pin up here you run your
24 pin through the nice big one here that can also go to your Optical drives
which are tooless more cable management Hooks and you can accept up to 1 2 3 4 5
3 and 1/2 in drives and there's an SSD mounting spot down here at the bottom so
you just screw those up from the bottom there and install your SSD I think that
pretty much oh no they included uh internal connectors sorry guys that was
close and
Voom wait this parrot wouldn't Voom if you put 4 million volts through it uh HD
audio USB 3 which as you may recall can
be converted power LED hard drive LED power switch and reset switch there are
all your included cables you should probably route them
through here and then take them to
wherever they need to go which is probably
here coil those up nice and tight get them all running through the cable
management Loops at the back and it should look little something like that
but better so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ante 1 don't forget to
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computer videos sorry guys I realized I never showed you how to install the 120
mil fan in the front so it comes with included screws see those two longer
ones so there's two bumps two screws bam
120 mm fan goes there and that's what it looks like from the inside it's easy to
get off you just try not to drop the
case while
you do that and then if you want to take it off you just pull on it like that no
problem