Antec's New Products

by Christoph Katzer on 1/9/2008 2:34 PM EST
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  • autumnale - Monday, February 18, 2008 - link

    Did y'all bother to ask the most important questions by any chance? When is the twelve hundred coming out and how much will it cost? I understand there are two versions. Water-cooled and air-cooled. I'm particularly interested in the price for the air-cooled version and the release date.

    And these things don't come with power supplies right? I hate how they jack up the price by adding a power supply. I mean if I buy the case without the power supply and then the same power supply they'd put in there, I'll bet it'd be cheaper. Hopefully, it won't have a power supply just like the nine hundred.
  • Synthetic47 - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - link

    I believe price will be around $150. There will be no included PSU and I'm pretty sure the water cooled version was dumped. ETA on this case is still very much unknown.
  • Zoomer - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - link

    I recently ran into an issue where the number of SATA power connectors weren't sufficient. I had 3 hard drives and an optical drive, all begging for the miserly 2 ports. I had to get quite a number of molex converters.

    Hopefully, newer power supplies will have more of these.
  • Christoph Katzer - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - link

    A PSU with less than 3 SATA connectors? Have a look at the PSUs we tested so far. Even smaller and cheaper models have more. Most higher-end PSUs today feature at least 4 SATA connectors.
  • C'DaleRider - Thursday, January 10, 2008 - link

    Antec looks like it borrowed heavily from some CoolerMaster cases, like the Stacker....just left out some of the nicer features from it, like the CM toolless design.
  • n7 - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - link

    wow the 1200 might just be the first semi-decent good sized Antec case in years.

    Apparently they finally realized they were losing all the many HDD users like me...
  • jonp - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - link

    The Three Hundred shows some improvements:
    PS on the bottom; back exhaust fan close to the top.
    Two large (120mm?) front fans
    USB, audio, switches on the TOP of the chassis.
    Top vent/fan(?)
    A full seven adapter card slots.
    Three 5.25" bays.

    However:
    NO external 3.5" bays?
    Hard drives mount front-to-back rather than side-to-side.
    Case is so open, it's bound to be noisy.

    Not much reason here to trade or use for a new build given others that are available.
  • v81 - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - link

    Is it just me or does it look like the Mini P180 only has 3.5" ext drive bays?
    Where would the optical drive go?
  • apriest - Thursday, January 10, 2008 - link

    Looks like 1x 5.25" at the top and 2x 5.25" at the bottom. A 3.5" would need an adapter.
  • insaneivan - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - link

    Why does the p180 mini have a top fan still? Because its "cool" or something? Everyone pretty much agrees that the top fan is not only pointless, or at worst harmful to cooling, but it makes the case much much louder. Everyone removes the fan and covers it, or at least should.

    I hope they made the front fan grilles less restrictive. They are ridiculous on the normal sized p180.
  • wirelessfender - Friday, January 11, 2008 - link

    You clearly have no clue how airflow works. To say that an exhaust fan does harm to cooling is a pretty ignorant statement. Also, as to fan noise a 200mm fan is almost completely silent. Again, you have no Idea what you are talking about.

    I own an Antec 900 so I would know. The top fan is completely silent and when stress testing with prime 95 I noticed a 1c increase in temps when turning it off. Yes, a small difference, but decrease in temperature is far from harmful...
  • krwilsonn - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - link

    I think what the OP was getting at is that the top fan is outside of the ATX spec in terms of airflow pattern. I can't quickly find a link to back this up, but if memory serves me correctly the spec calls for cool air drawn in to the front and out of the back of the case near the cpu fan. Having a fan on the top would be drawing the cool air away from the CPU area before it gets a chance to cool the CPU and other hot components near it. I'm sure that this is debatable but what is certain is that a top fan was not included in the original spec.

    Also being rude in stating your opinions is not particularly helpful to anyone.
  • Iketh - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - link

    my cpu cooler (ocz vendetta) blows toward the top of the case, so it makes more sense for those situations... u can also set both exhaust at lowest fan speeds and still get decent ventilation with no noise
  • chizow - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - link

    Looks like they addressed a lot of people's comments about the 900 with the 1200. Much roomier, lots more expansion, fan filters, black painted inside, more expansion bays.

    I would've like to have seen a 2nd 120mm fan on the windowed side panel instead of an extra one on the back. The side panel isn't pictured but the blog said only 1x120mm there same as the 900. Also, some conduits or tubing would've been nice to hide all those ugly fan wires. I didn't see any mention of built-in wire routing behind the motherboard tray, maybe Kristoph can comment if he saw what was behind the other side panel? Front panel still looks to be a bit lacking as well.

    Not enough improvement for my needs to move up from my 900 and frankly I think the 900 looks much nicer. The larger honey-comb grates and dark grey don't look nearly as good as the black of the 900. The 1200 also loses the sharp, edgy lines on the top and face compared to the 900.

    Also got a kick out of the 300....I'm sure lots of people will buy it just for the name so they can scream "This is Sparta!" while gaming. :)
  • strikeback03 - Friday, January 11, 2008 - link

    I'm amazed they didn't have a custom "300" painted 300 case there. Obvious missed marketing opportunity.

    Maybe it's just the photos, but the plastic of the 1200 looks cheap, like something decorating a generic Dell case or something.
  • Christoph Katzer - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - link

    Yeah behind the minboard tray you have quite some nice space for cables. They didn't do anything worse, only better...

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