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welcome to my unboxing of the antique one now this is yeah I know you were expecting me to say hundred after that or something right no no no this is just the antique 25 no no no not the NSX plenty fine that's how many years an tak has been uh well around no the one is the model number not the 25 no hundred and the one so what is the one all about the one is all about an up-to-date feature set good ventilation sturdy construction we hope we're going to find out that for sure although if it's an tech that's pretty much my expectation even on their value cases they really don't make anything flimsy I mean look at this they're still using double walled cardboard even for a value oriented case now they have often for a hard foam versus versus a soft foam not my preferred way of doing things but given this is a more value case I think we can forgive them for it because nobody should be loading up you know 60 pounds worth of computer hardware in a case like this this is work for you need a basic system you want it to be ATX compatible so not not em ATX but you want something fairly small with good ventilation etc etc so here is the antec actually that's not bad it looks kind of like the it looks kind of like a more up-to-date 300 actually we've got a 300 over there that's serving us quite well as our tech tips video editing machines so I do personally believe in the fit in fact that is the 300 that was part of the NCIX tech tips episode on thermal management where we took a crappy case and we substitute we swapped it out for the 300 in order to demonstrate how much cooler your she can run if you have a case that is designed for optimal cooling and there it is all right so let's start with the externals we've got thumb screws securing the side panels we have as I mentioned before ample ventilation so here in the front we have a spot for our 120 millimeter cooling fan we also have three five and a quarter inch base your ntek logo you're just nice sleek lines usb3 BAM on a value case like this that is a great thing to see reset switch power switch headphones and microphone ports okay we've got a 120 millimeter cooling fan included in the top as well as a spot for what appears to be a 140 millimeter fan on the side give me a second that might be 120 sorry guys it was just the styling of the honeycomb mesh that confused me a little bit that is for a 120 millimeter fans almost all of the fans in this case are 120 millimeter you can see it uses this sort of punched out style of design it still looks fairly sleek you can see from the front it's very aerodynamic but from the back it's more wide and the reason for that is it gives you space for this fan here without interfering with your graphics card and gives you space for a taller CPU coolers so there's a very practical reason why they've done that all right oh yeah sorry I never finished on the back so on the back we find an included i/o shield I haven't seen one of those in a while very nice and I see it's not any more up to date than they used to be there's your spot for your parallel port which is evidently labeled Venus for some reason sure whatever man okay and then we've got a 120 or 92 or 80 ml fan in the back water cooling grommets which you're not very likely to use because you're probably going to get one of those integrated liquid cooling things like the 620 or the 920 then you've got 7 PCI slots a bottom mounted power supply very nice to see antic is still not neglecting awesome features like bottom mounted power supplies even on a value case and we move to the inside so here is the one spot in the case where you can put a 140 millimeter fan as a bottom intake using the feet on the bottom you can see it's lifted up a fair amount off off the floor or table wherever you put it there's also a fan filter that is removable here for your power supply intake fan so you can have air coming in here cooling your power supply and going directly out and air also coming in here to cool your graphics card or whatever else happens to be in this general vicinity this is an invaluable include you know I've always liked the word in value well hated it really because the word invaluable implies that it has no value but you say invaluable to mean very valuable so what's the dealio ok so here is your USB 3 2 USB 2 adapter so if you are putting together a value system that does not have a USB 3 header for those front USB 3 you can just hook them up as USB 2 with the included adapter Thank You ante that is a very fantastic conclusion both we've got a piece of paper thank you for that as well and then we have a large CPU cut out so that's so you can install pretty much any cooler you want without actually removing the motherboard from the case there's your 120mm fan plugs in with a three pin header look at all these black cables and texts getting stylish look at that also black cables for that guy so the only cooling that is included with the case is the top and the back but you can still install as I mentioned before here here and on the side panel in order to get additional cooling now uh how does this work fascinating you know what I'll be back in a moment now as a test of how easy they are to list drive configuration is to set up there's the back panel by the way also got that bulge thing going on for additional room for cable management in this case as a test of how easy their tool is configuration is I am going to figure it out on camera the only thing I was doing off-camera there was fetching myself some drives to install so here we go okay Hey look at that there including Drive rails look like a $60 case that's fantastic alright now we're gonna put these here presumably okay and then we're gonna put these here presumably damn let's do one more just to show how quickly we can do it now that we are seasoned veterans at installing this particular tool list drive and system and bam love it so from the front looks like this got like you know some cool honeycomb II ventilation a looking thing going on from the back you can see it's riveted in okay should be quite strong that's been a problem with some cheaper cases in shipping with hard drives this one you shouldn't have that issue although and better if you could screw them in but I guess they're not really going anywhere once you have a side panel closed on this side this is interesting so this is like a big like rubber thing going on so I guess that Oh fascinating so they've put this in in order to keep the motherboard tray because you see they cut out so much of it for that in large CPU cooler they wanted to reinforce it in some way so once you put a motherboard on here it's not going this way but in order to keep it from flexing they've got this Ridge Ridge ax ting it up I know bridge eating isn't a word but making it more rigid during shipping or whatever else wow that's cool oh we've got lots of cable management tie down places here you can run your 8 pin up here you run your 24 pin through the nice big one here that can also go to your optical drives which are to lists more cable management hooks and you can accept up to one two three four five three and a half inch drives and there's an SSD mounting spot down here at the bottom so you just screw those up from the bottom there and install your SSD I think that pretty much code know the included internal connectors sorry guys that was close vote right this parrot wouldn't vote if you put four million votes through it HD audio USB 3 which as you may recall can be converted power led hard drive LED power switch and reset switch there are all your included cables you should probably route them through here and then take them to wherever they need to go which is probably here check oil those up nice and tight get them all running through the cable management loops at the back and it should look a little something like that good better so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the enttec 1 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and there's the to list five and a quarter inch mechanism and other computer videos sorry guys I realized I never showed you how to install the 120mm fan in the front so it comes with included screws see those two longer ones so there's two bumps two screws BAM 120 millimeter fan goes there and that's what it looks like from the inside it's easy to get off you just try not to drop the case well yeah do that and then if you want to take it off you just pull on it like that no problem