Antec 100 One Hundred Gaming Computer Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this is the antech 100 so it is
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self-described as gaming performance that won't break your bank the 100 a
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member of an's legendary line of gaming cases and I will agree with them about
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that the 100 series with standouts like the 900 the 300 have been a staple for
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gamers everywhere I remember going to fraa palooza uh gee I guess it was a
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couple years ago but I did a bit of a walk around uh through the entire
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uh whatever it was it was like a warehouse or an arena or something where
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they had all those people crammed into and uh I was I I couldn't help noticing
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as I was walking around that probably
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about 20 to 30% of the people there had
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either an antech 900 or a 300 and when you have that kind of dominance in terms
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of market share it's it's impressive regardless of what kind of product
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category you're talking about so let's see if the 100 live up to the tradition
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of those great cases now based on the
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naming scheme and knowing already that the 300 is a pretty value oriented
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gaming case and the 200 is even more so I would venture a guess that the 100 is
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all about value features versus uh
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luxury features but we're going to see
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exactly what this case is all about in just a moment here so here we go why
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don't we turn it this way first the first thing I noticed about it is it doesn't have a window which is fine not
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every gamer necessarily wants a window on their case so I'm just going to try
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and find somewhere to stand where I can uh easily point at things but not block
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all the light you know what I'm going to move to this side okay so the 100 we
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have on the outside full mesh in the
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front so this is just like we're used to seeing this is a bit of a tighter mesh
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versus what we've seen in the past on 100 series cases although it doesn't
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look to me as though it's going to restrict air flow in any meaningful way
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we've got an an nice uh silver and black antec logo down here at the bottom and
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it looks like you can actually move this around should you so desire because it's
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just on a 5 and 1/4 in uh cover all
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right we've got a pretty traditional looking 100 series look so this looks
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just like the 300 in terms of these Ridges at the front we've got our power
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switch no reset switch microphone headphones power as well as hard drive
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LEDs and we have Forefront USB 2.0 so we
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don't have any USB 3.0 on this case although that is to be expected for a
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value chassis uh go ahead and stay uh stay where you are I'll rotate the case
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so on the side we've got an optional 120 mm fan Mount and then on the top we've
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actually got a pre-populated 140 mm fan so that's going
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to provide a lot of ventilation for the CPU area and then if you do install a
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power hungry and heat generating GPU you can also install a fan back there here
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we've got another 120 mm fan in the back and then we also find a fairly standard
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layout in the rest of the back of the cas this is interesting look at this
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Okay so we've got our IO shield and then we got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight PCI slots so
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this may be one of the best value cases on the market that is capable of
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accommodating some of those extended motherboards that have more than seven
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PCI slots that's kind of neat don't forget too there is a use for this
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bottom piece PCI slot sometimes even if your motherboard does not have extra
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slots for example the Gigabyte x58
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extreme our ex58 extreme whatever it was
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had a PCI Express 16x slot at the very bottom so if you wanted to run three-way
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Crossfire or SLI you actually needed either an empty space or an extra PCI
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slot at the very bottom in order to install a dual slot graphics card in
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that bottom one so there you have it bottom mounted power supply okay so
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standard ATX only we don't have any support for n CPX standard and we're
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going to go ahead and take these side panels off so entech has included thumb screws which is fortunate because I left
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my screwdriver upstairs okay we're going to take off the side panel there's a
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little bit of flex in the side panel but you have to expect that on a on a more
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value oriented case one of the tricks that I've often used in the past
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um with thinner metal cases especially
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if you run into a situation where the side panel is vibrating or something
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like that like you install a fan here here and some of that vibration gets transferred to the side panel is you can
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actually put little bits of blue sticky tack on the inside of the panel where it
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contacts the case and that can eliminate any vibration so there's the other side
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panel go ahead take that off find somewhere to put it and here is the
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inside of the case so the first thing we find inside is a
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survey of all things so you should go to
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that URL should you so desire and then
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yeah okay we've got some Hardware so there's some soft silicon silicone uh
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hard drive mounting grommets as well as screws and then we've got all the cases
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we need for the cases the screws we need for mounting the motherboard in the case
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and any drives and all that good stuff that we may require okay here on the
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inside we've got a couple little raised spots for the power supply to Mountain
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however looking at the overall design of the case I'd say I'd recommend mounting
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your power supply with the fan up so that way you're going to make sure
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you're getting enough air flow into your fan some cases do have um mesh here at
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the bottom so that you can mount it fans side down but I don't think I'd do that
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in this particular case we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 and 1/2 in Bays although I can
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verify that if I actually check that yeah we've got six internal 3 and 1/2
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three external 5 and 1/4 in bays and then we have one internal mounted 2.5 in
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SSD mounting Bay so actually you can see that if I turn the case this way there
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are our mounting points for installing an SSD in the 100 it looks like we've
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also got two front 120 mm fan mounts so
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the way those are going to be accessed is by pulling off the front
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bezel if I can figure out how to do it then I will gladly demonstrate for you
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guys okay one two three there we are
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okay so we can pull off the front bezel and from there it shouldn't be too
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challenging to figure out how to mount the fans although I can't quite figure
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it out ah Clips look at that
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okay I think okay give me a
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moment yeah it's that simple you just take your fan you line it up in the
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right spot and clip it in just like that so that's how you mount your fans and
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then you can go ahead and install the front bezel back onto your case being
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careful that the wires are running into their correct locations okay so that's
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pretty much everything I wanted to show you guys here at the front of the
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chassis so let's just see oh okay the way that hooks in is actually kind of
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neat so you can swing it out so then you can make sure everything hooks in
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correctly and then it Clips in on this side so I think that's pretty much
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everything there is to say about it we've got a motherboard uh motherboard
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tray cutout so you can install and uninstall a back plate requiring CPU
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heat sinks without taking your motherboard in or out of the case so
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that's a pretty nice conven venience Factor we've also got a little bit of
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cable management going on on the back here so they've included a couple zip
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ties as well as anchor points for a couple more although most of the thicker
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cables like your 8 Pin and like your 24 pin may or may not be able to run up the
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back of this motherboard tray kind of hard to say but I'm thinking I'm
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thinking maybe not um you know what
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though guys if anyone has a 100 please let me know if you were able to run your
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24 pin and your 8 Pin C power connector behind the back of the motherboard so
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