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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the antic GX 700 now you might have noticed that this box is an antique 900 box so we actually got our sample sent before the GX 700 had a proper retail box or something like that so that's why we don't have a GX 700 box but we have some box to open so we're not gonna worry too much about that you know being all butthurt about not having the right box and we do have the right case inside so everything is is okay oh wait no okay I see what they've done here they do have a box for the GX 700 but it is actually inside a 900 box or something and we're just gonna have to be creative about this and open it up because there we go go away 900 blocks Hulk rip my thumb that hurts a lot now there we go it's sort of like a birthing process one case born of another case that is not actually related to it in any way which is like a divine miracle of so okay you know what moving right along to the GX 700 which we do have a box for and we are going to start unboxing we should just restart the video here because this is ridiculous there we go so this is aimed to be the every gamer case it has the features that people want so it has things like top mounted radiator support dual 120 there's a piece of foam that will apparently do something right there okay hard foam on the outside this is a value oriented case although when you do see the feature list I know that we saw this case in the antec suite at CES and we all guessed higher numbers for the MSRP than it actually is ouch this is a reviewers guide so Cadman briefed on this already okay so that's why you're gonna see hard phone included it's not that heavy so hopefully it's not going to cause any problems in shipping but one place where I would kind of pause oh the one thing that would give me pause it would be shipping a fully loaded GX 700 in the stock box I don't know how comfortable I'd be with that because the additional weight of the components inside does add additional weight so let's start with the front panel front panel is pretty straightforward this you've got four or five and a quarter inch bays the way these clip in is actually kind of cool there you go hold on you're gonna notice something here that's because these front covers are actually made of metal on this case it's been a long time since I've seen like a custom custom metal front panel on a okay I'm just going to give away the surprise on a $69 case so very cool and there's some functionality to the clips they actually clip this in place this piece is plastic here this piece is plastic here so you're not gonna have to worry about scratching the paint off of it because it's colored plastic and then these parts are metal right here power button reset switch hard drive and power LEDs and then this is cool as well so there's four thumb screws here this is a dog tag e style chunk of metal as well right here that just says GX 700 and Antec you can actually take it off if you really wanted to there's it's just folded over the back so it's not really uh it's not really that difficult to remove and put something else on there and then this piece right here is actually metal as well so this is just a cover for hopefully I can yeah there we go this is just a cover for there you go a removable fan filter so you can pop that out clean it pop it back in presumably because you want your computer to be clean and then you can go ahead and thread these thread these guys back in here I wish it was a little bit easier to get up but I do like the aesthetic of the whole sort of you know thumbscrews thing with the rugged looking sort of case front i/o this is where this is where the aesthetic sort of gets away from me a little bit because the front is very obviously sort of a green and black theme whereas the top is mostly black but then it's actually got green on the front i/o so you can see 2 USB 3 2 USB 2 microphone headphone and this is kind of cool actually this one I like here's the fan speed controller low medium and high it has 3 switches for the integrated controller I just I wish that this was green or something like that so that it looked more like black with green accents right now it's just sort of black and then you've got a little bit of green you could fix that up by putting like some spray painted green fans under here or something like that then it would actually look pretty too so let's go ahead and have a look at the side which is black and the other side which is also black you've got a 120 millimeter fan mount here those fan mounts on the top we're 120 / 140 so you could do either 120 or 140 mm fan 7 expansion slots that's pretty standard bottom mounted power supply and then you've got kind of a thing going on here forget how this works you do gugu thank you push it here and then it should yeah there we go so that gives you access to all the thumb screws back there so you just kind of Oh hold on switch to the wrong thing there we go are we good is that the right thing ah ah what's going on there we go okay good some reason it's really really dark well back there we go we got that pic sorry about that guys it's a black case and it's a black table and then there's a button right here that you press to get access to the thumbscrews so that you can to lessly put in PCI cards or whatever else you want also I made a mistake on the price point before as was pointed out by both diesel and slick who told me that it's actually 59 so it's a $60 case and there's a 120mm fan in the back so it's got three fans included which is already if you you know by fans they do cost money so that's already something like a you know at least $20 value depending what kind of fans you're buying so there you go side panel yeah it has some flex to it however it does have reinforcements here here and here in the typical sort of an tech fashion so you always know something built by an tech is going to be well built it's not just going to be sort of like flimsy piece of metal attached to another flimsy piece of metal interior-wise we see the layout of this case really start to shine here so you've got the staple Antec three and a half inch drive cages they're actually accessible from the other side panel on this particular case so I'm going to take off the thumb screws at the back here and show you how they slide out from the other side there we go other side panel is identical to the first one except that it doesn't have the 120 millimeter fan mount here we go instructions pull them out here so once you put a hard drive in lay in these they will stiffen up significantly and you can see it's got little little dots in here so those will go into the hard drives they are completely toolless I kind of wish they'd give you the option to screw them in you can see there are no holes in the side here you can also easily mount a two and a half inch drive on here by using the holes that are in the bottom so you've got five hard drive sleds right there and then since we're at the back anyway you can also see the tool-less mechanism for the five and a quarter inch base this is just operated by twisting pulling off putting back on and then locking back into place again and the five and a quarter inch bays do give you the option to screw in the drives a large cpu cut out this is something that's become a bit of a standard feature now as well as cable management loops so you can see one two three cable management loops here on the back of the motherboard tray that allows you to keep the cables flat which makes it easier to put the back side panel on I wouldn't have minded seeing a little bit more room for cable management back here so I think you're gonna have trouble running a 24 pin up the side here however you can see they did leave space here where it goes in to run a 24 pin so there's lots of room for an 8 pin enough room for a 24 pin next to the mother okay well that's what they intended okay nevermind we don't need more space so 24 pin goes here and all is well in my world from the front of the case there's not a whole lot you can see that you couldn't see from the back to be perfectly honest there's your power supply mount so you do have a filtered there we go intake here at the bottom show you guys that you can pull that out replace it no big deal you've got four little dots that will hold the power supply slightly off the bottom of the case and then you've also got like I said before rear-mounted power supply this holds it in cable management goes here and then up the sides here so you're able to bring them out for the optical days for graphics cards and then here for the 24 pin for the CPU I did say before that there was room for 120 millimeter dual 120 millimeter liquid cooler in the top so you would be able to do that there's 140 ml fans there now but the mounting holes are included for 120 and then you do have enough space you can see the top of the motherboard will be about here so there's exactly enough space for a rad there and then if you wanted you could also add another 120 millimeter fan here and it looks like there would be enough space that you wouldn't have any interference there which is actually quite cool so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the GX 700 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos and slickin diesel also corrected me on another thing that I was wrong about so the fan speed controller here is actually off low and high not low medium and high so yeah sorry my dad