Antec GX700 Value Gaming Computer Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the antech
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gx700 now you might have noticed that this box is an antech 900 box so we
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actually got our sample scent before the gx700 had a proper retail box or
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something like that so that's why we don't have a gx700 box but we have some
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box to open so we're not going to worry too much about that you know being all
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butt hurt about not having the right box and we do have the right case inside so
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everything is is okay oh wait no okay I
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see what they've done here they do have a box for the gx700 but it is actually
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inside uh a 900 box or something and
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we're just going to have to be creative about this and open it up
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because there we go go away 900 box Hulk
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rip with my thumb that hurts a lot
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now ah ah there we
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go it's sort of like a birthing
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process one case born of another case
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that is not actually related to it in any way which is like a Divine miracle
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of okay you know what moving right along to the gx700 which we do have a box for and we
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are going to start unboxing it we should just restart the video here because this
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is ridiculous there we go so this is
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aimed to be the every gamer case it has
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the features that people want so it has things like top mounted radiator support
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dual 120 there's a piece of foam that will apparently do something right there
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okay uh hard foam on the outside this is a value oriented
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case although when you do see the feature list I know that we saw this
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case in the antech suite at CES and we all guessed higher numbers for the MSRP
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than it actually is ouch this is a
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reviewer's guide it's okay I've been briefed on this already
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okay um so that's why you're going to see hard foam included it's not that
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heavy so hopefully it's not going to cause any problems in shipping the one
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place where I would kind of pause all right the one thing that would give me
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pause it would be shipping a fully loaded gx700 in the stock box I don't
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know how comfortable I'd be with that because um the additional weight of the
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components inside does add additional
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weight so let's start with the front panel front panel is pretty straightforward this you've got four 5
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and a/4 inch Bays the way these clip in is actually kind of cool there you go
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hold on you're going to notice something here whoa you hear that sound that's
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because these front covers are are actually made of metal on this casee
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it's been a long time since I've seen like a custom Uh custom metal front
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panel on a okay I'm just going to give away the surprise on a
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$69 case so very cool and there's some
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functionality to the clips they actually clip this in place this piece is plastic
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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
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colored plastic and then these parts are metal right here power button reset
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switch hard drive and power LED these and then this is cool as well so there's
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four thumb screws here this is a dog taggy style um chunk of metal as well
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right here that just says gx700 and antec you can actually take it off if
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you really wanted to there's uh it's just folded over the back so it's not
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really uh it's not
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really uh that difficult to remove and put something else on there and then
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this piece right here is actually metal as well so this is just a cover for
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hopefully I can yeah there we go this is just a cover for the there you go a
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removable fan filter so you can pop that out clean
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it pop it back in presumably because you
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want your computer to be clean and then you can go ahead and thread these uh
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thread these guys back in here I wish it was a little bit easier to get at but I
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do like the aesthetic of the whole sort of you know thumb screws thing with the
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rugged looking sort of case um front IO
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this is where this is where the aesthetic sort of gets away from me a little bit cuz the front is very
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obviously sort of a green and black theme whereas the top is mostly black
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but then it's actually got green on the front IO so you can see two USB 3 2 USB
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2 uh microphone headphone and this is
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kind of cool actually this one I like here's the fan speed controller low
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medium and high it has three switches for the integrated controller I just I
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wish that this was green or something like that so that it looked more like
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black with green accents right now it's just sort of black and then you've got a
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little bit of green you could fix that up by putting like some spray painted
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green fans under here or something like that then it would actually look pretty
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cool so let's go ahead and have a look at the side which is black and the other
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side which is also black you've got a 120 mm fan Mount here those fan mounts
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in the top were 120/40 so you could do either a 120 or a 140 mil fan seven
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expansion slots that's pretty standard bottom mounted power supply and then
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you've got kind of a thing going on here forget how this works
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I think you push it here and then it should there we go so that gives you
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access to all the thumb screws back there so you just kind of oh hold on
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switch to the wrong thing there we go are we good is that the right
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thing ah ah what's going on there we go
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okay good for some reason it's really really
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dark we'll be back there we go we got
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that fixed sorry about that guys it's a black case and it's a black table and
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then there's a button right here that you press to get access to the thumb
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screws so that you can toolless put in
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PCI cards or whatever else you want also I made a mistake on the price point
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before as was pointed out by both Diesel and Slick who told me that it's actually
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59 so it's a $60 case and there's a 120
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mil fan in the back so it's got three fans included which is already if you
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you know buy fans they do cost money so
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that's already something like a you know at least $20 value depending what kind
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of fans you're buying so there you go side panel yeah it has some Flex to it
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however it does have reinforcements here here and here in the typical sort of
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antech fashion so you always know something built by antech is going to be
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wellb built it's not just going to be sort of like a flimsy piece of metal
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attached to another flimsy piece of metal interior wise we see the layout of
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this case really start to shine here so
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you've got the staple an Tech uh 3 and 1
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half in Drive cages they're actually accessible from the other side panel on
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this particular case I'm going to take off the thumb screws at the back here
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and show you how they slide out from the other side here we go other side panel
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is identical to the first one except that it's doesn't have the 120 mm fan
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Mount here we go instructions pull them
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out here so once you put a hard drive in the in these they will stiffen up
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significantly and you can see it's got little uh little dots in here so those
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will go into the hard drives they are completely toolless I kind of wish
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they'd give you the option to screw them in um you can see there are no holes in
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the side here you can also easily mount a 2 and 1/2 in drive on here uh by using
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the holes that are in the bottom so you've got five hard drive sleds right
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there and then uh since we're at the back anyway you can also see the
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toolless mechanism for the 5 and a/4 inch Baye this is just operated by
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twisting pulling off putting back on and then locking back into place again and
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the 5 and a quar inch base do give you the option to screw in the drives a
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large CPU cutout this is something that's become a bit of a standard
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feature now as well as Cable Management Loops so you can see one two three Cable
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Management Loops here on the back of the motherboard tray that allows you to keep
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the cables flat which makes it easier to put the backside panel on I wouldn't
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have minded seeing a little bit more room for cable management back here so I
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think you're going to have trouble running a 24 pin um up the side here
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however you can see they did leave space here where it goes in to run a 24 pin so
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there's lots of room for an eight pin enough room for a 24 pin next to the
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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
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as well in my world from the front of
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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
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power supply Mount so you do have a filtered there we go intake here at the
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bottom show you guys that you can pull that out replace it no big deal you've
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got four little dots that'll hold the power supply slightly off the bottom of
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the case and then you've also got like I said before rear mounted power supply
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this holds it in Cable Management goes here and then up the sides here so
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you're able to bring them out for the optical Bays for graphics cards and then
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here for the 24 pin for the CPU I did
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say before that there was room for 120 mm uh dual 120 mm liquid cooler in the
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top so you would be able to do that uh there's 140 mil fans there now but the
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mounting holes are included for 120 and then you do have enough space you can
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see the top of the motherboard will be about here so there's exactly enough
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space for a rad there and then if you wanted you could also add another 120 mm
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fan here and it looks like there would be enough space that you wouldn't have
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any interference there which is actually quite cool so thank you for checking out
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tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer
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videos and slick and Diesel also corrected me on another thing that I was
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wrong about so the fan speed controller here is actually uh off low and high not
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low medium and high so yeah sorry my bad