Tuesday, June 4th 2013
Antec Nineteen Hundred Stands Tall...Really Tall
At Antec's Computex booth, one exhibit literally stuck its head out, the new Nineteen Hundred super-tower chassis. This two foot-long ATX full-tower features nine expansion slot bays, and supports HPTX, EATX, and conventional ATX motherboard form-factors. It features well-partitioned motherboard, drive, power, and peripheral areas, and is made of 0.8 mm-thick steel. The case offers a total of 17 drive bays, including three 5.25-inch, fourteen 2.5-inch or 12 3.5-inch (configurable). It features two PSU bays, letting you add redundant or supplementary PSUs. Its cooling system includes three 120 mm front intakes, two 120 mm top exhaust that can be used to latch a 240 x 120 radiator, two 120 mm fans that circulate the air within the case, and a rear 120 mm exhaust. The case below is pictured with lime green highlights, we suspect more highlight color options could be in the works.
46 Comments on Antec Nineteen Hundred Stands Tall...Really Tall
All it is a P280/1100 on a stand.
also 1500w PSU preform worse than 2 PSU together. you could put 2 AX860i PSUs to get almost perfect regulation and a mawimum power pull of 1720 which a 3970x @ 5Ghz combined with 4 OCed HD 7970s will easily pull. OCed 7970 = 280w and a 3970x @ 5Ghz = 400w that gives you a 1520w maximum pull without counting drives fans and WC pumps
Heck, I like big cases, I would get something like that for myself if I had the money to spare. I wouldn't have gotten the 1200 if I didn't like big chassis. :p
I'm just not sure if I like the green or not though.
Paint it something other than green and maybe I'm game.
In my case my bench rig still needs two full size modern PSU's to run all of its fans/components. Take my 16 fans @52w and you have 832w in pure fans, add in the dual pumps and you are looking at sitting comfortably in 1200w land. That is just water cooling I haven't added my TEC's yet (block is a work in progress). Add in the normal system load for something like that (850-1200w) and you need two powersupplies.
Just because you don't need it doesn't mean others don't. Some people also like large cases. Are they the 1%? sure who cares, if you have the money may as well go big.