Thursday, September 18th 2008
Antec Teases Enthusiast Community with Skeleton Chassis
Antec is planning to take enthusiast PC chassis to the next level with the Skeleton Chassis. It breaks the mould with a design case-modders and overclockers would build themselves. It is an open-ended design suited for flat-bed setups ideal for benchmark enthusiasts and reviewers. The design is basically two stages stacked. The top stage holds the motherboard and the lower stage holds hard drives, PSU and related peripherals and wiring. The stages slide out, in case the user decides to use extreme cooling such as LN2 pots, etc. Otherwise, the arches above the top stage hold a powerful 250 mm fan to keep the entire stage cool.Specifications:
Source:
Atomic PC
- 4 Drive Bays (External: 2 x 5.25in) (Internal: 2 x 3.5in)
- Optional: 4 x 3.5in; side panel mounted drive trays
- Layered tray design for greater system integration flexibility
- Seven Expansion Slots including room for 11in video cards
- cooling System: one top 250mm TriCool 3-speed multi color customisable LED Fan; one front 92mm HD cooling fan
- Motherboard: Standard ATX
- 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x FireWire (IEEE1394), 1 x eSATA, Audio (AC97' and HDA compatible) In and Out
- 0.8mm cold rolled steel
42 Comments on Antec Teases Enthusiast Community with Skeleton Chassis
I wonder how much it is going to cost.
pretty and cool yes, but functional?
nice idea just the same.......
www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-106-AN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=160&name=Antec%20Skeleton%20Performance%20Chassis
this is a real testbench! www.nokytech.net/banchetto_101_de_microcool_la_-7212-a.html
My first though was...dust much?
That thing would be so easy to clean
Why not pour that glass of coke over your cpu right now ?
Skeleton Chassis's are the oldest concept of cases. We evolved. I dont see the point in going backwards, esp if it looks like a skeleton.
And im sure everyone loves to spray their rigs with an air compressor, but thats because they didnt actually bother building the rig themselves, otherwise respect for the components would be an issue and they wouldnt run the risk of damaging their 6 weeks of cpu lapping effort for something so silly.
Testing purposes only ? Ye ok . . . But which technician would sit there and strap all that hardware to a case to check if a component works. There are much more productive and efficient means which ive always opted for.
Someone posted the Banchetto 101 - This is a more professionally designed unit that takes testers into consideration. I believe it also has the appealing looks over the Antec.