A Positive Look at the Antec Nine Hundred (900) Case

[Mr. K6]

And close up to my 9500AM2 fan, dinged up! I was trying to disconnect a cable, and it slipped straight into it. Not so purty and purfect anymore.

You could try to bend it back, heatsink fins bend easily. Use some small needle nose pliers around cloth (to protect the HS finish).

I like seeing what all you guys did with your cases, they look great. I need to do something with mine, at least some decent cable management

[Brian MP5T]

thanks guys...

would be interesting.. Pobably my loudest fan at the moment...

going to try the incense stick/mosquito coil to test the air flow to! amd see if moving the 2 fan cases up or down make any real impact?


V D R

Get this... It makes No Noise..

SONIC TOWER

[Moe_Szyslak]

What are your temps?

[VooDooRoo]

Brian MP5T looks like a beast! lol

Got my "Scythe Mine Rev.B Heatsink" and happy with noise and heat levels..

Have left the 100 mm fan in and temps are nice for me...

Celsius talking... Hovering around the 33c. mark with just surfing and other light stuff happening...

might diconnect the fan tommorrow and see what noise and heat is like with no fan


V D R

[kflorence]

is there a replacement utility i can use instead of easytune 5? i HATE that utility, it's so ugly and slow :\

EDIT:
by the way, my temps are 28C for CPU idle, 33-35C under load, HDD's at 30C under normal usage, system at 40C.

[InfiniteDreamer]

Hi all

I've regged on here basically because of this thread!!!! LOL

doing a new build and on doing search on the case found this thread and forum
and it has inspired me to have a good go at cable management this time


have done lots of measuring prep work and marking cutouts etc


Hopefully i'll add some pics when i finish

Steve

FYI heres my
specs to be

Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming case
3x 120mm Black Alum Mesh Intake Fan Filters (2 Front 1 Side)
2x Hiper 120mm Chrome Case Fans (Drive Cage Back & Side Panel)
Corsair Hx620 Modular Psu
Asus P5K3 Deluxe Wifi Intel P35 Mobo
Intel E6850 3Ghz Core 2 Duo
Zalmann 9700 LED Aero Flower Copper cpu cooler
Ocz Platinum PC3-14400 1800mhz DDR3 Memory (2x1GB)
OCZ XTC Memory Cooler
EVGA 8800GTX KO ACS3 768mb
2x Western Digital Raptor 10k 150gb Sata HD in Raid 0
1x Western Digital Caviar RE2 500Gb Sata HD
Scythe 3.5 Card Reader & Floppy Drive
Nec 7170S Sata DVD Writer Black
Liteon DH20A1S Sata DVD Writer Black

Asus Mw221u 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
Western Digital MyBook Premium Es 500gb eSATA/USB2 External HD
Microsoft Natural ERgonomic 4000 Keybd
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit Edition

[Brian MP5T]

What are your temps?

22 Off Load

Never over 34 Under Benchmark Loads

[Moe_Szyslak]

22 Off Load

Never over 34 Under Benchmark Loads

Do you underclock it or something? That's very low, especially for a passive cooler.

[mike8913]

22 degrees c is 71.6 F....it's impossible for your CPU to be running at exactly ambient, so either the room your rig is in is at 65 or lower or you are full of beans.

[Brian MP5T]

22 degrees c is 71.6 F....it's impossible for your CPU to be running at exactly ambient, so either the room your rig is in is at 65 or lower or you are full of beans.

I have the house at 21 Deg C. The Vent is directly below my computer desk..

It's very possible. It's called "Wind Chill" man...


Air passing over a 0.6 Kg Heat sink is gonna have that effect.

Even if you don't believe it, you should still get one. It's awesome..

[mike8913]

I'm still having a hard time believing it. Your CPU and heat sink would have to be dissipating all the heat it generated almost instantaneously. It's called "Physics" man.

[Vapor]

Yeah, it's impossible to have a CPU below ambient without some sort of phase change (this includes evaporative setups).

Temp sensors lying as usual

[apexracing]

I suddenly smell cow poo.. Seems to be coming from the direction of Brian MP5T's backside.

[Moe_Szyslak]

[Brian MP5T]

Poo Or Not... Updated the BIOS and the temp is reading higher but no load is still 25 Deg C.

Spent the day adjusting the computer for a new CPU and a much longer GPU.. 8800GTX OC2

Each Front Fan is Variable.

All HDD are reversed.

Southbrige Cooler Clocked to make room..

I love how clean it is and the third fan makes the front look..

[mike8913]

disc drive?

[Brian MP5T]

disc drive?

Help me out here... I'm not a Clairvoyant.

[CyberDruid]

I have been admiring your rig (from your sig shot) for a while-- had no idea it was in an A900.

I'm a sucker for indirect lighting effects...that heatsink looks tremendous when lit...and the three fans up front...well that's just plain purdy.

Nice and sanitary inside too.

[Brian MP5T]

I have been admiring your rig (from your sig shot) for a while-- had no idea it was in an A900.

I'm a sucker for indirect lighting effects...that heatsink looks tremendous when lit...and the three fans up front...well that's just plain purdy.

Nice and sanitary inside too.

Thanks, Basically this thread caused me to drill and grind my case today..


I am getting an E6750 1333 2.66 Intel Core2 and a BFG 8800 GTX OC2 on Monday.

I knew it would not fit in the space with the fan holder in the middle.

I think that Hard disks look awesome when they are 180, but what a pain in the ass. Totally worth the effort, I built the SATA wires and "Manipulated" Most of the back panel to fit everything.

I think overkill is the way everything should be. I plan to see what sort of numbers I can post on 3dMark shortly with some OC.

The fans in the front were replaced with the Thermaltake Smart Fans..

If you have never seen them in action, OMFG. Take any fan that you have ever seen and double it's speed. They are stupidly loud wide open, but the controllers bring them right down to a whisper. Basically, I'm trying to show that with a bit of thought you can get a lower, sustained stable temperature without water...

There are over 37 LED lights in this case.. not counting the ones in the fans..

[CyberDruid]

That's a lot of LEDs.

Well if you are into grinding and cutting I would recommend you make holes in the mobo tray to route your cabling and make it pretty much disappear.

RE temps...I am sure there are many aircooling solutions that rival LCing...at stock speeds...

[Moe_Szyslak]

Poo Or Not... Updated the BIOS and the temp is reading higher but no load is still 25 Deg C.

Right now I get a CPU temp of 13 but that's complete BS. You have to look at the Core temps. And right now those are about 28 idle. And thats WITH active cooling. A TT Big Typ 120 VX @ 1600RPM.

Try looking for the Core temps

[Brian MP5T]

That's a lot of LEDs.

Well if you are into grinding and cutting I would recommend you make holes in the mobo tray to route your cabling and make it pretty much disappear.

RE temps...I am sure there are many aircooling solutions that rival LCing...at stock speeds...

The SATA cables go behind the wall.

The HDD cables also.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SUPER...QQcmdZViewItem

This is the guy with the LED lights..

Thanks for your input. I don't really see this case as a passive only case, It has fans. I think it will do just fine with the E6750.

[pranko1]

Nice and clean case Brian MP5T

[Technoholic]

The harddrives that are reversed, how do you avoid the wires being hit on by the fan? You managed to make it avoid it?

[Edit] Oh yeah, how long is the SATA cables too? I have 6 inches, and 8 inches I got from FrozenCPU. But how long is your cables, Brian?

[Brian MP5T]

The harddrives that are reversed, how do you avoid the wires being hit on by the fan? You managed to make it avoid it?

[Edit] Oh yeah, how long is the SATA cables too? I have 6 inches, and 8 inches I got from FrozenCPU. But how long is your cables, Brian?

I'm running Six 24" SATA cables.. The 90 Deg bend helps a lot.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Clear-24-SATA-II...QQcmdZViewItem

Also, when you reverse the drive, it only fits into 2 holes, not 4, the drive sticks out a bit more which makes more room for the HDD wires.

I just drilled a new hole for the two (Each) that had no hole.