The drive cages are a right pain to work in, and they interfere with the installation of longer cards. They also make a good cabling job much more difficult. The space above and behind the motherboard tray also contributes to plenty of difficulties to work in. The lack of a bottom-mounted PSU vent means that your PSU will either be sucking dust from a cramped area on the bottom of your case or have to flip it over so it sucks hot air from inside your case. The case itself feels cheap. Not like $40 budget case cheap, but I've worked in MUCH better feeling $100 cases. The panels had too much flex to them and the power buttons feel like they'd give out if you're one of those people that turns off their machine relatively often. The finish on the metal also felt rather uneven and rough. It might have just been the one my friend got, but when the machine heated up the acrylic side window would also pop, likely due to the change in density because of the heat. It never cracked, but it was a rather irritating sound that I at first mistook for an electrical short which did nothing good for my blood pressure.What don't you like about the 900? You've said plenty of times that you don't like it, but you haven't given a single specific reason. EWhy don't you like working in it? I find it easy and there's plenty of room.
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Then of course there are the more modern problems. No USB 3.0, no CPU backplate cutout, no native 2.5" drive support, bland interior color, and cases of the same price that have surpassed the Nine Hundred in cooling ability all separate it from the more modern market. If it were half the price it is now I wouldn't really have anything against the Nine Hundred, but for $100 you can get a vastly superior case with more modern features and better cooling. You can even get similar styling if that's what drew you to the case in the first place.
Shyould I start quoting other review sites? "A decent chassis, with above-average performance, and an attractive price to boot. Recommended." HeXus review. 5/5 average from ebuyer with 142 customer reviews.You can go right ahead, I just find it amusing that the website you listed as your first choice for hardware reviews (since it seems you're based in the UK given your use of Hexus and Bit-Tech as well as eBuyer) didn't care for the case you said had done great in that department. We can play review tag all day, but the bottom line is this: If you gave ANY tech review site out there the Antec 900 for review today, it would get pretty bad scores given its price and feature list.V4LENT1NE
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