Antec 900 Review
The Antec 900 is a truly massive case.... hight wise, but length wise, its not a great deal bigger than your average PC chassis, and that's is its main flaw, instead of paying £80 odd to buy a big case, you've got a slightly taller, modified standard chassis that doesn't offer you much space in terms of neat, tidy upgrades.
For instance, I've installed my Radeon HD 5850 into it, and as a result of its relatively short length, I had to move one of the hard drives, down a notch on the cages, not a big thing, but it was hassle that anyone could do without, especially when all you'd want to do, when you've bought kit like that is just to play games and not faff around with case management. And it could of easily been a bigger issue if say all your HDD cages are full.
However, the 900's saving feature is its incredible airflow. Its 3 120mm fan and its 200mm top fan are able to shift over 160 CFM (cubic foot per minute), which if your bothered, about cool components, is fantastic, the only way to get a PC cooler than it, would be to water cool it. Saying that though, 40 degrees C under full load for a stock CPU cooler isn't anything to look down at.
Sadly though, even though this case is very well built, and it has brilliant airflow. The cable management is far from brilliant, there aren't enough holes, in the right places or any space behind the motherboard to build a tidy PC, which when one side panel is mostly window, you'll want to have it as tidy as possible.
However it does have some other nice features such as a front esata port and a sort of charging bay on top. Pluss the fans have blue LEDs in them, if you like that sort of thing.
However my final say would be that at £80 there are other cases that would be far better to buy, such as the HAF 922, which is much longer and superior cable management.
I'd recommend this case if you like the blue lights, its brilliant cooling, and its looks and don't intend on putting in a long graphics card. But if you don't mind the looks of the HAF, as there both priced in the same price range, then the HAF seems like a better case to buy.
-Sam Cooper
-GingerFox
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Availability 60 days for the wifi only version, 90 days for the 3G version.
