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| Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer Case |
| Page 2 - Drive Bays |
| Page 3 - On Top |
| Page 4 - Back and Sides |
| Page 5 - Conclusion |
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The Antec Nine Hundred Gaming case, a good looking midi tower case with lots of drive bays and lots
of cooling fans. We take a more in-depth look at this ‘Ultimate’ gamers case.
Retailing at around AU$195 without a power supply, the Nine Hundred is in the middle pricing bracket for gaming cases. The price is kept (reasonably) low due to the Nine Hundred using a steel construction instead of the more expensive (and substantially lighter) aluminium construction quite often used in higher –end gaming cases these days. The use of steel has made the Nine Hundred a couple of Kg heavier than a lot of its competitors, which will be annoying if you are frequently moving your PC around, such as taking it to LAN events, but it’s only a couple of kilos, you can probably use the exercise anyway :)
The front of the Nine Hundred is top to bottom perforated metal, allowing for maximum air flow into the system and particularly over the drives, there is however no filters for the incoming air, so I hope you don’t have a dusty room, because all the dust will soon be inside your case.
Drive cooling is well taken care of with two Antec Tri-Cool 12cm fans mounted directly in front of the hard drive bays, with another mount for an optional 12cm fan at the rear of the top hard drive bay, so your drives should stay icy cool. These fans are accompanied by blue LEDs when the power is on, because if a case doesn’t have blue LEDs it’s just not cool is it? All the fans included in this case are Antec Tri-Cool fans, which come with 3 different speed settings controlled by a switch, so noisy or quiet is up to you.
