Antec One Value Gaming Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,742 words · ~8 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the antech one
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now this is yeah I know you were expecting me to say 100 after that or
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something right no no no this is just the antech 25 no no no not the antech 25
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that's how many years ante has been
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uh well around no the one is the model
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number not the 25 no 100 the one so what
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is the one all about the one is all about an up-to-date feature set good
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ventilation sturdy construction we hope
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we're about to find out that for sure although if it's antech that's pretty
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much my expectation um even on their value cases they really don't make
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anything flimsy I mean look at this they're still using double walled cardboard even for a value Orient case
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now they have opted for a hard foam
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versus um versus a soft foam which is
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not my preferred way of doing things but given this is a more value case I think
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we can forgive them for it because nobody should be loading up you know 60
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lbs worth of computer hardware in a case like this this is more for you need a
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basic system you want it to be ATX compatible so not not matx but you want
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something fairly small with good ventilation Etc Etc so here is the an
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actually that's not bad it looks kind of
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like the um it looks kind of like a more upto-date
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300 um actually we've got a 300 over there that's serving us quite well as
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our Tech tips video editing machine so I
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I do personally believe in the in fact that is the 300 that was part of the NC
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Tech tips episode on thermal management where we took a crappy case and we uh s
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we swapped it out for the 300 in order to demonstrate how much cooler your PC
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can run if you have a case that is designed for optimal Cooling and there
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it is all right so let's start with the externals we've got thumb
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screws securing the side panels we have as I mentioned before ample ventilation
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so here in the front we have a spot for our 120 mm cooling fan we also have
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three 5 and 1/4 in base your antech logo your just nice Sleek lines USB 3 bam on
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a value case like this that is a great thing to see reset switch power switch
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headphones and microphone ports okay we've got a 120 mm cooling
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fan included in the top as well as a
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spot for what appears to be A40 mm fan on the side give me a sec
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that might be 120 sorry guys it was just the styling of the honeycomb mesh that
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confused me a little bit that is for a 120 mm fan so almost all of the fans in
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this case are 12 you can see it uses uh
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this sort of punched out style of design it still looks fairly Sleek you can see
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from the front it's very Arrow Dynamic but from the back it's more wide and the
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reason for that is it gives you space for this fan here without interfering
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with your graphics card and gives you space for taller CPU coolers so there's
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a very practical reason why they've done that all right oh yeah sorry I never
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finished on the back so on the back we find an included IO Shield I haven't
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seen one of those in a while very
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nice and I see it's not any more up to date than they used to be there's your
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spot for your parallel port which is evidently labeled Venus for some reason
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sure whatever man okay and then we've got a 120 or 92 or 80 mil fan in the
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back water cooling grommets which you're not very likely to use because you're
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probably going to get one of those integrated liquid cooling things like
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the 620 or the 920 then you've got seven PCI slots a bottom mounted power supply
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very nice to see anch is still not neglecting awesome features like bottom
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mounted power supplies even on a value case and we move to the inside so here
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is the one spot in the case where you can put a 140 mm fan as a bottom intake
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using the feed on the bottom you can see it's lifted up a fair amount off the off
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the floor or table wherever you put it there's also a fan filter that is
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removable here for your power supply intake fan so you can have air coming in
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here cooling your power supply and going directly out and air also coming in here
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to cool your graphics card or whatever ever else happens to be in this General
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vicinity this is an invaluable include
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you know I've always liked the word invaluable well hated it really because
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the word invaluable implies that it has no value but you say invaluable to mean
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very valuable so what's the dealo okay
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so here is your USB 3 to usb2 adapter so
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if you are putting together a value system that does not have a usb3 header
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for those front usb3 you can just hook them up as USB 2 with the included
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adapter thank you antech that is a very
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fantastic inclusion also got a piece of paper thank you for that as well and
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then we have a large CPU cutout so
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that's so you can install pretty much any cooler you want without actually
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removing the motherboard from the case there's your 120 mil fan plugs in with a
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three pin header look at all these black cables anex is getting stylish look at
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that also black cables for that guy so the only cooling that is included with
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the cases the top and the back but you can still install as I mentioned before
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here here and on the side panel in order
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to get additional cooling now uh how does this work
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fascinating you know what I'll be back in a moment now as a test of how easy
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their toolless Drive configuration is to set up there's the back panel by the way
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also got that bulge thing going on for
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additional room for cable management in this case just going to lay that down as
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a test of how easy their tooless configuration is I am going to figure it
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out on camera the only thing I was doing off camera there was fetching myself
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some drives to install so here we go
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okay hey look at that they're including drive rails with like a $60 case that's
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fantastic all right now we're going to put these here
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presumably okay and then we're going to put these
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here presumably
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bam let's do one more just to show how quickly we can do it now that we are
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seasoned veterans at installing this particular toolless drive system and
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whoops bam love it so from the front
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looks like this got like you know some cool honeycom ventilation looking thing
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going on from the back you can see it's riveted in okay should be quite strong
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that's been a problem with some cheaper cases in shipping with hard drives this
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one you shouldn't have that issue although I'd feel a little bit better if
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you could screw them in but I guess they're not really going anywhere once you have a side panel closed on this
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side this is interesting so this is like a big like rubber thing going on so I
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guess that oh fascinating so they've put this in in order to keep the motherboard
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tray cuz you see they cut out so much of it for that enlarged CPU Cooler they
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wanted to reinforce it in some way so once you put a motherboard on here it's
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not going this way but in order to keep it from flexing they've got this RI
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riging it up I know rigid isn't a word but making it more rigid uh during
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shipping or whatever else oh that's cool all we've got lots of cable
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management tie down places here you can run your eight pin up here you run your
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24 pin through the nice big one here that can also go to your Optical drives
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which are tooless more cable management Hooks and you can accept up to 1 2 3 4 5
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3 and 1/2 in drives and there's an SSD mounting spot down here at the bottom so
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you just screw those up from the bottom there and install your SSD I think that
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pretty much oh no they included uh internal connectors sorry guys that was
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close and
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Voom wait this parrot wouldn't Voom if you put 4 million volts through it uh HD
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audio USB 3 which as you may recall can
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be converted power LED hard drive LED power switch and reset switch there are
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all your included cables you should probably route them
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through here and then take them to
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wherever they need to go which is probably
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here coil those up nice and tight get them all running through the cable
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management Loops at the back and it should look little something like that
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but better so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ante 1 don't forget to
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list 5 and a/ qu in mechanism and other
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computer videos sorry guys I realized I never showed you how to install the 120
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mil fan in the front so it comes with included screws see those two longer
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ones so there's two bumps two screws bam
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120 mm fan goes there and that's what it looks like from the inside it's easy to
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get off you just try not to drop the
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case while
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you do that and then if you want to take it off you just pull on it like that no
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problem