welcome to my unboxing of the antec p280
and you might be wondering why I had such a big smile on my face to start
this video and the answer is quite simple because I believe the p280 is a
true return to form for antec this is
one of the most Innovative
and here we go just opening up these seals this is one one of the most
Innovative case designs that I have seen in a very long time and it is a true
update to the original p180 we've seen
incremental updates like the p82 and the p183 but we haven't seen anything that I
would consider a reimagining up until now so let's go
ahead and take this bad boy out and you
know what I'm going to do I'm going to take the box here and I'm just going to put it here and we're going to have a
look at some of the features before we get started so one is you can install up
to 13-in graphics cards I'm going to get some more light for you here so you can
actually read this quiet Computing so it uses a dual layer design with steel and
polycarbonate side panels ease of use and we'll talk a lot about that but it
includes grommet line Cable Management holes and tons of space for managing
cables tooless 5 and 1/4 in Bays quiet 3
and 1/2 in Bay and these are these are cool okay uh two front panel USB 3 ports
an advanced cooling system including three fans and four additional fan
mounts so yes you can have quiet and you can have cooling triple layer aluminum
plastic and foam front bezel with double hinged door opens up to 270° finally PSU
intake and front air filters which are very easy to take out and clean compared
to designs that I've seen from antec and their competition in the past so let's
go ahead and take off this foam ANC
always packs their cases very well in closed cell foam which is much less
susceptible to damage during Transit and much more durable much more reusable
than other stiffer less durable kinds of
foam go ahead and take this plastic off
very excited to see this case because it arrived in the mail a little while ago
and I haven't actually had a chance to check it out yet even though I've seen
pictures and I've seen specs and I've seen where'd it go a reviewer's guide I
haven't actually seen the case in person yet so let's get some lighting on that
front panel while we oops sorry
reveal the finish on there so this is
about what I'd expect from antech in terms of the overall quality of
materials I mean the p180 had a beautiful uh metal finished front door
and the p280 continues in that proud tradition we've got two USB 3 ports and
two USB 2 ports with the front panel we've got our microphone Jack as well as
headphone jack and let's go ahead and open open this thing up so here we see
the foam sound dampening material we also see the 3 5 and 1/4 in Bay and you
guys are going to love this the gamers are going to love this because what kind of gamer is not lazy and doesn't like or
and likes to work hard to take out the filters hold on okay so this is step one
to take off the filter that was it step one take off the
filter now you can access the uh 120 mm
cooling fan slots that are in the front you can also see your 3 and 1/2 in Bays
which are double purpose because you can mount 2 and 1/2 in drives in them there
you go that's the whole thing nice honeycomb Grill design to protect it
give it some rigidity but that is how easy it is to take out and clean your
fan filter simply astounding in terms of
airf flow antec has not forgotten in spite of the fact that this is a silent
silent concept case they've not forgotten airf flow so look at these
huge gaps between the side of the door and the closing point which are going to
give those front fans the air flow that they need in order to not suffocate and
actually here speaking of the door swinging open there here I want to show
you guys the 270° hinge so you just snap that out put
that over there a lot of people complain about front case uh doors personally I
like them um what I really don't like to see is the power and the reset switch
hidden behind the front door because as much as I don't need to see my uh 5 and
a qu inch Baye I very rarely use my optical drive and I don't need to see my
fan filter I do need to turn my case on and off so antec has repositioned the
power and reset switches for this case to the top in a very convenient
userfriendly location compared to what we've seen from their competition as
well as from antec in the past we've got two 120 mm cooling fans up here which
are spaced correctly for a dual radiator for those of you who are interested in
running one of those very very cool good
foresight and then take off the side panel where we see the polycarbonate
layer as well as the metal layer on the
side panel that gives it some stiffness it also gives us some weight this is not
a light case so you know don't imagine you're going to be easily hauling it
around to land parties unless you're like you know huge like me right yeah
that's right okay so moving on uh where
should we start on the inside you know what let's start with the fan filter since we've talked a little bit about
that already on the outside this fan filter oh it doesn't come out it doesn't
come out oh that because it comes locked from the factory
see now I can easily remove it that's the filter for your power supply intake
and then when you put it back in you don't have to lock it you can make it
easy but if you're going to ship your case or something like that you just
push on it and now it's locked the reason antech designed it this way is
just because during shipping they don't want these fan filters coming out and
getting damaged in the box so there you go personally I would always keep that
unlock so I can easily clean it and there you go all right what else we got
in here a little bit of accessories there's a little piece of paper here's
some cable ties which will help you manage your cables here's some hardware
and screws hard drive screws all that good stuff so silent concept case does
that mean we can't put an extreme gaming machine in here I would postulate no it
does not mean that because check this out antech has included in the p280 nine
expansion slots so yes that means you can install crazy Enthusiast
motherboards with up to nine expansion slots this is an XL ATX case so you can
put pretty much anything in it because it supports long motherboards slightly
wider than normal motherboards but not full eatx server board so stuff like the
Rampage series from ASUS which tends to be a little bit wider that'll be no
problem and it also supports long graphics cards up to 13 in which is
longer than anything else on the market now we've got rubber grommets here for
cable management and they've also sensibly positioned the rubber grommets
a lot of the time you see one down here and then you see one up here and kind of
one up here but obviously you can't pull out twice as many cables as you put in
in the first place so an's giving you room to put them in here and here pull
them out here here here here and here we've also got aha our 3 and 1/2 in or 2
and 1/2 in drive adapter so here's the caddies there's your 2 and 1/2 in holes
there's your 3 and 1/2 in holes with rubber silicone silicone
mounts very solid compared to competing
Solutions these have a lot of uh durability to them and they're not
flimsy at all so there's six of those uh
what else we got here oh let's go ahead and undo
this front panel
connectors I like that these are black for the most part wouldn't have minded
seeing all black but I guess it's not the end of the world because you can
hide them very easily down the rubber grommets in there so I wouldn't worry
too much about it there's your front panel connector so that's your hard drive LED your power led oh no hard
drive LED oh yeah there's the hard drive LED and then we've also got uh what else
here USB 2 front audio and USB 3 with um
uh with a header so rather than with using the cheesy you know go around the
back and plug into the io Shield we have a nice molded plastic header piece there
so what else do we have oh yeah tool is
5 and a quar these are actually oh these are smart so what
happens is when you slide in your drive it's going to push out this and then
it's going to drive that pin right into the side of your drive no big deal and
then you've also got two holes left over here as well as here if you want to
secure it with screws like say for example for shipping so that's awesome
all right what else we got 120 mm
cooling fan is over here we've got those
120 mm cooling fans that are in the top up here we've also got uh cooling fan
controls over here so that's on a little PCB there going to want to power that up
and then you can use the switches at the back of the case which I have haven't shown you yet to control the speeds of
your fans you got your water cooling grommets these are pretty standard these
days and oh check this out that is a huge CPU Cooler Mount or CPU Cooler
cutout so that's going to allow you pretty much no matter where your CPU
socket is located to easily you replace
a back plate and uh not have to take the
motherboard out of the case in order to do it so I'm just taking off a couple of
thumb screws here and the camera's apparently fall following me so I'm
going to have to turn it around and show you guys all right thumb screws
off case opened so same thing we got the
polycarbonate on the side panel there just going to go ahead and put that
aside for now now check this out tons of
cable management room look how much space there is I'm going to like jam my
hand in there for emphasis lots of room to manage cables by the motherboard tray
ante has also included little Clips so you can EAS manage your cables where
exactly they're going you use zip ties you can secure the cables down nice and
flat so that you don't interfere with trying to close a side panel it's become
with a lot of cases they're like yes we have cable management holes but then
when you actually go to close a side panel it's like sitting on a suitcase so
uh very very challenging in that regard on the back here we've also got a large
hole for putting up to two EPS 8 Pin connectors through here and then we've
also got a hole up here so this is the one I mentioned before where you can run
your your front panel connectors and whatnot through here without interfering
with any of your 5 and 1/4 in Bay and without having to look at any of these
cables in order to run them down to the bottom of your
motherboard I think that pretty much covers it but give me a moment here
guys so two more things guys one is the actual dimensions back here is 3 cm so
even fat 24 pin cables will fit and the other thing is here are the controls for
the two cool fans that are included two cool for school that is uh so you can go
ahead and turn those to low or high in order to get either low cooling and low
noise or high Cooling and higher noise
so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview and first look at
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos one feature that I actually
missed on this case and it's been so long since I realized I missed it that
I've actually already installed a system in it cuz I went to mount the SSD and I
went oh yeah it's got that handy SSD Mount that's just a pressure mount so
you go ahead and you slide your SSD in here and it's secure enough see you can
okay here you can see I can pull in it a little bit doesn't go anywhere if I pull
in it a lot then it comes so that is how you mount an SSD in the p280 in addition
to being able to mount an SSD on any one of the drive sleds anytime you want so
sorry about that and now I'm