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Both of the heavy side panels are secured by two sets of painted thumbscrews which can be removed easily by hand. When I say ‘heavy' by the way, I mean do mean heavy. One of these side panels is as heavy as a Lian Li Aluminum chassis.
The insides of both doors are lined with an extra layer of plastic which is bolted onto the steel panel. The door with the 200mm ‘Big Boy' fan weighs almost 3.5 kg !
The inside of the case is not painted black, like many cases we review today and while I would generally class this as a negative, without a windowed side panel you won't be looking at it anyway. There is a section cut for motherboard mounting and back plate replacement – at the top we can see the two 140mm fans and the 120mm rear fan.
Man, no offense to antec, but both this and the DF 85 are quite ugly looking cases.
ITs not a bad looking chassis, but that side fan system which sticks out is a mess. they should have made it wider and moved that internally.
3.3 kg for the side door? christ, thats madness. It looks ok, but I agree the DF 85 seems the better case, if they had finished the front of it !
This looks much nicer than the DF 85 which is the ugly duckling of the antec range.
However, if you can get past the looks, the DF 85 is probably right up there with the Raven 02 for cooling performance.
I want to see lian li reviews here. that case is quite nice, but im a sucker for aluminum, who isnt?
It does look like metal, shame its plastic at the front and that side door would take some getting used to. fair review.
I quite like it. shame they didnt paint it black inside, I forgot how ugly raw material is.
Its quite attractive, the filtered 200mm fan is a stroke of genius ! i love the idea of a 200mm fan which moves massive air, but not having to deal with massive levels of dust later.
Its quite attractive. DF85 I didnt like, but its a shame about the fan that sticks out at the side, it ruins the whole look of it.
Antec make all their cases with heavy metals and not aluminum, thats a shame. Steel is good, but its just so damn heavy. I like the semi portability of aluminum when I move to my friends for some gaming.
It is a lot of case for the money, they dropped the price a lot from the p190 which i have.
I like these cases a lot, the insides are very spacious indeed.
That is very well designed, all the filtering makes live so much easier and I apperciate a company doing all this. I just dont know about the looks.
THe biggest competition it has is from the 900 and 1200.
Very nice looking case. not sure about the side panel either, its a bit messy looking I think.
I really think this is a lovely looking case, im tempted to pick one up.
Nice price drop, but sadly the looks have also dropped 🙁