Antec shatters cooling conventions again with Nine Hundred. Coupled with fantastic looks and the 200mm Big Boy fan, prepare for some real shock and awe.
Category: Case
Manufacturer: Antec
Product: Nine Hundred
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Price: $110.00
Antec has been incredibly successful in designing enclosures that have captured different segments of the market. Just by looking at their wide variety of unique computer cases over the years, it is astonishing to see that Antec has manged to maintain a good reputation of excellence and quality. The Antec Nine Hundred being reviewed here today is aimed directly at the "enthusiast LAN party gaming crowd", with great air cooling in mind. Don't expect this case to be quiet, but do expect awesome performance, as you'll read later on, from the monstrous 200mm fan within the Antec Nine Hundred.
Hardware Configuration
- Case: Antec Nine Hundred
- Power Supply: Antec TruePower Trio 650
- Motherboard: DFI Lanparty 939 nForce4 Ultra
- Processor: AMD Opteron 146 2.0GHz (Overclocked 2800 MHz)
- Hard Drive: Western Digital 100GB IDE HDD
- Hard Drive: Seagate 300GB SATA HDD
- Hard Drive: Maxtor 250GB SATA HDD
- Video: PNY GeForce 7900GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express Pictured
- Video: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express Tested
- Memory: OCZ Dual-Channel PC4000 Gold Edition VX 1024MB
- Optical: Lite-ON 8x DVD+/-RW
- Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
- Cooling: Zalman CNPS9500 CPU Cooler
- Cooling: ThermalRight HR-05 Chipset Heatsink
- Media: Mitsumi 7-in-1 Media Drive
- Display: Samsung Syncmaster 710N 17" LCD
Software Configuration
- Motherboard BIOS: NF4LD406 BIOS Update Revision A (2006/04/06)
- Chipset: nForce4 Series AMD Windows Vista 32-Bit v15.00 WHQL Certified
- Operating System: Windows Vista Business Edition
- Video Driver: NVIDIA ForceWare Release 100 v100.65 32-bit WHQL Certified
- Audio Driver: Creative SB Audigy 2 Series Vista Beta Driver 2.12.0001
- Test Software: Folding@Home Console Client v5.04
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