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It comes as no surprise that there is very limited room inside the case. The side panel can be easily removed, requiring us first to remove two screws before popping it off.
There is a long and narrow power supply circuit board along one side of the case, with a single plastic connector.
The supplied power supply cables can be plugged into this, breaking out into a 24-pin ATX power connector, a 4-pin CPU coonector and twin SATA connectors.
Underneath the motherboard, there is a metal bracket which has mounting points for two 2.5″ hard drives or solid state drives. We would recommend installing these before the motherboard, as it saves removing the bracket from the other side.
Installing the motherboard is slightly more difficult that you might think. The tiny dimensions of the chassis can make it difficult to manoeuvre it into place.
As we mentioned previously, there is very limited headroom over the motherboard, only leaving room for the shallowest of CPU coolers. The Intel reference cooler just fits so we would recommend sticking with this as it is fairly quiet too. Connecting all the cables up is fairly simple, but we found that the SATA power cables were a little short for comfort. It isn't too difficult to route the cables out of the way as there are only a few of them. We doubt they will restrict airflow.
Very cool, nice design. havent heard much from Antec lately.
Excellent, I like this a lot. I use a boxee box with my tv however and it works quite well for media stuff. bit slow though
what would be the most powerful system you could build in this? Core i7 3770k?
build quality is always high from Antec, but I wish they would bring out a £300 case like the old days, when they targeted the ultra high end audience. been very quiet lately