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

[hiroman_77]

Yes, I'm a newbie, but I've been a lurker for over 6 months now, and this is my first modded case. Thought I'd post in appreciation for all the help this thread has given me.

Case: Antec 900
Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 750w With Modular Cables
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz
Heat Sink: Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Thermal Compound: Artic Silver Ceramique Thermal Compound
Memory: 4 X 1GB Patriot Extreme Performance DDR2 800
Memory Cooler: OCZ OCZTXTCC Memory Cooler
Video Card: BFG Tech GeForce 7950GT 256MB
VGA Cooler: Zalman VF900 (non-LED)
NIC Card(s): Intel PCI-E Gigabit Desktop Adapter, Intel PCI-E Gigabit Server Adapter
Tuner Card: Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1600 PCI
Hard Drive(s): 2 x Western Digital 1TB GP WDEACS, 2 X Seagate 250GB 7200.10 ST3250410AS
Drive Bay Converter: 2 X Silverstone Aluminum 5.25" to 3.5" bay converter
DVD-RW: Samsung IDE 18X DVD Burner with LightScribe
Card Reader/Floppy Disk: Scythe Black Floppy Drive/USB 2.0 Card Reader
Controller Panel: Silverstone USB/Firewire/Audio Black Panel
Case Fan(s): 6 x Yate Loon Blue LED D12SL-12 (From coolerguys.com), 1 x Antec Big Boy 200
Fan Controller: SilenX IXA-FCEX External 4 Channel Fan Controller

Modded DVD cover plate using left over drive bay cover. Covered original port and switch area with foam, and moved ports and switches to one of the drive bays. Cut out holes for HD & Power LEDs and power switch. Moved because the machine is sitting on a 4 ft high file cabinet.


Covered most of the visible parts of the case with sound deadening material. More for looks than performance. No experience painting yet and I'm still afraid.


Better shot of motherboard area. All possible cables were routed to the back of the case, even ones covered by the hard drive cages.


Cut out the back fan grill and replaced with black wire grill, replaced stock pci slot cover plates with Silverstone vented plates.


All the wires hidden behind the rear of the motherboard tray. The panel barely slides on because of some of the thick cables.


Cut PSU hole and mounted 140 mm fan grill. Feet made out of rubber feet found at a local hardware store and home depot. 4 pads stacked together with the bottom one a rounded hard rubber pad. Needed the height for the PSU fan.


All blue leds from the 6 Yate Loon Fans, Memory Cooler, Fan Controller, and Power & HDD LEDs


Another night shot the with windowed panel installed.



This is my home "server" computer that will eventually hold a total 8 hard drives by adding 4 more 1 TB WD GP drives when space is needed. Most of the ideas for this machine came from the bright and creative individuals on this thread. Thanks to all of you for the great work and informative posts.

I don't like the color of some of the LEDs on the yate loon fans (some lightish blue, some close to green). I would like to replace them with the darker blue 5 mm leds. Anyone had any experience buying them off of ebay? Any specific manufacturer you've had luck with?

Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions for improvements.

BTW I actually know the guy who designed the outside of this case for Antec as well as all the recent Antec cases. I told him/showed him this thread and he was really impressed. He's a really nice guy.