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

[MetalRush]

Oh WiLL, I have another item you can proudly steal
Clicky here
You see the LED-bars beside the monitor... I fitted them at the back of my monitor, so you don't see a thing (except the light )

[=>WiLL<=]

I dread tearin' my box apart. 20 minutes to remove everything... F'in 3 HOURS to put it all back in. Having an absolute clean case means a ton of fun with the tie-straps.

Some mods I plan on doing (they seem to grow and never end ):

- Tuniq Tower support
- Enzotech MOS-C1 heatsinks on the mosfets around my CPU
- Mount my eSATA bracket behind PSU (left side looking from the back)
- 40mm fan directly behind my CPU (on the blank panel)

[=>WiLL<=]

Oh WiLL, I have another item you can proudly steal
Clicky here
You see the LED-bars beside the monitor... I fitted them at the back of my monitor, so you don't see a thing (except the light )

"The URL contained a malformed video ID."

Try it one more time boss.

[Hor$eman]

"The URL contained a malformed video ID."

Try it one more time boss.

The video worked for me. What I want to know is a URL to buy these... very cool. Do they have a sensor you mount at the front of the monitor?

Edit: Found it: http://www.arfx.nl/index.php?main_page=index

Man they should hold a gun on you when you hand over the cash, at those prices....

[MetalRush]

You found the jackpot, Hor$eman (the link also works for me, WiLL. Perhaps you clicked it while I was still editing :?)
That is the website I bought the parts.
Thing is that they also sell LED bars (I bought the 12V flexible ones) but I replaced those with the IKEA Dioder set (link)
These are 4 bars of RGB leds (they also have white led bars, but we want color ofcourse :P) and can be coupled. So I used 2 bars for left channel and 2 bars for right.
Only thing I had to do is to find out which connector was R, G and B and redirect them to the right powercable.
So you could do the same and buy a ARFX startmodule and an IKEA Dioder set (is also cheaper than the flexi-led strips they sell @ ARFX) and off you go
Just hauler if you want to have more explenation or help

And something completly off-topic:
Is it me, or is it no longer possible to reply to a PM ?
I thought it was possible before... but now I cannot reply to a PM (and have to send a new message instead... not handy since the counterpart might wonder what you are replying to...)

[ashzerodg]

I dread tearin' my box apart. 20 minutes to remove everything... F'in 3 HOURS to put it all back in. Having an absolute clean case means a ton of fun with the tie-straps.

Some mods I plan on doing (they seem to grow and never end ):

- Tuniq Tower support
- Enzotech MOS-C1 heatsinks on the mosfets around my CPU
- Mount my eSATA bracket behind PSU (left side looking from the back)
- 40mm fan directly behind my CPU (on the blank panel)

Yeah I have all day Saturday (wife will be gone ) to focus on getting things to a point that I can leave them alone for awhile (at least a few days). When I first started the build I thought I would go slow and get everything done right...but I started slacking off on the PSU cable at the end and just wanted to get it up and going...now I need to really clean it up some, cause I am not happy with the results Now that I know I can get it to run, I feel better about messing with things...I have to say after not building for awhile and having trouble with the mobo bios I was a bit scared I had wasted a lot of money.

[dafeeessh]

here is mine specs are in sig and the hard drive is in the 5.25 bay.
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[MetalRush]

Wow, that's rather crowded... you should do something with hose-management (try to get it behind the backplate... now THAT would be a nifty mod )

I had a LianLi with watercooling, but since I was traveling to a LAN-party every now and then, I decided to go back to air-cooling. A lot noisier, but also lighter
Nice thing about watercooling is that you can overclock (heavy). You should be able to 'up' your CPU even more, since my 'old' E6600 was running on 3.5 Ghz on air... you should be able to do 4 Ghz at least

And only 1 vid-card on water ?

[dafeeessh]

And only 1 vid-card on water ?

i just bought that one and it has some pretty heavy electrical noise so i do not know if i want to void the warrenty to bad.

the wires are a mess but i do not fell like taking it apart just so it looks better.

Nice thing about watercooling is that you can overclock (heavy). You should be able to 'up' your CPU even more, since my 'old' E6600 was running on 3.5 Ghz on air... you should be able to do 4 Ghz at least

thats about how far i can go temps load are a little below 60C and voltage for 3.6 stable was about 1.55 my q6600 is awful

[GripS]

I think it looks pretty good. The case doesn't really give you a whole lot of room to work with.

[dafeeessh]

I think it looks pretty good. The case doesn't really give you a whole lot of room to work with.

thanks, that case is hard to water cool i was surprised how much i got in there.

[Got_Vtec?]

i agree it does look crowded but hey it looks nice.....get some fan filters bro looks like u build up alot of dust......mine did to but now i clean it once a week i still haven't ordered my fan filters yet

[dafeeessh]

i agree it does look crowded but hey it looks nice.....get some fan filters bro looks like u build up alot of dust......mine did to but now i clean it once a week i still haven't ordered my fan filters yet

ya i think its were i live its dust central over here i try to clean it every week but i am a bit to lazy.

[DaIceMan]

Where'd all the 900 fans go?

[Janno]

Where'd all the 900 fans go?

i sold mine, so i'm an ex

[Bubbaxm2]

Where'd all the 900 fans go?

Still have mine but it is going to become a backup soon. I am now done with the the water cooling setup on my Thermaltake Armor.

[Hughyhunter]

Where'd all the 900 fans go?

Antec needs another case! This case is too heavy and too loud! I do love the airflow though. Next rig will definitely be something lighter and hopefully with some decent airflow like the 900.

[ashzerodg]

OK here are pics of my build, not as clean as I want it to be but I ran out of time this weekend and I need a few longer cables to get everything behind the case.

Starting point




Holes drilled




Grommets in




Parts are here




First run


















A little more cable clean up and the heatsink mounts














You can see in the first few pics how the Tuniq Tower is kind of slanted. Then you can see my temporary supports and its much more even. I was gonna do the metal support all the way to the case, but I just couldn't bring myself to take everything out so I could drill, so I just came up with that. Actually works really well cause I was able to adjust the zip ties to make it perfectly straight. I know its working cause according to the biostar temp reading I was sitting at 28c while at 2.5ghz and no load on the cpu and the heat sink at and angle, then when I put the mounts on and evened things out I am now at 21c while at 2.7 ghz and no load on the cpu.

The airflow is great it but it is a bit loader than i was hoping for, but it got much better with the SMART fan stuff turned on. I love it, fast as hell compared to my 1.6ghz celeron laptop i was using before.

[=>WiLL<=]

@ashzerodg

Nice build. I am always a fan of the "goodies" shot -- the one with all of the unpacked parts bunched together. I am right there with ya on the lean with the Tuniq. Next time I tear my box apart, I will have all of the things I need done to it -- with hopes that I will not have to tear it apart again, only for hardware upgrades.

[DaIceMan]

I don't really notice too much sag with my Tuniq. The cores on my E6600 stay pretty even, so I think I got it nailed just right. Hopefully *fingers crossed*, I will actually have time this Saturday to get my 900 torn down, the 300 built and start on a couple of the mods on the 900. Have a client at 10am and another at Noon, but hopefully the rest of the day will allow time to get my projects moving again.

[=>WiLL<=]

I don't really notice too much sag with my Tuniq.

I did not have any sag when I installed my Tuniq -- 9 months ago. With time, it's weight will work with gravity and cause it to start sagging. Thus, the custom bracket idea.

[DaIceMan]

My rig, in it's current config, is 16 months old. Perhaps I found the one thing that Asus did right with this motherboard.

[kingvan]

hey,
can someone show me step by step on how i can open the top part of the antec 900 case.

[Hughyhunter]

Kingvan. Rather than repeat ourselves Read through the thread. It's been discussed in "ultra" depth!

[kingvan]

thanks alot found it