Antec 1900 Gaming Case Review

[tinytomlogan]

Well it was last time I checked. I bought an antec psu from there 2 years ago.

Lol even Pc World don't stock antec stuff anymore. Its all corsair parts now.

Bold move - normally they sell the uber cheap stuff

 

[barnsley]

Bold move - normally they sell the uber cheap stuff

Basically they wanted to start competing against system builders/vendors like scan for a while. In order to be taken seriously they got rid of all non major brand parts. also, the EU are making non 80+ psus illegal now from what I've heard.

 

[Damien c]

When I first saw this case I said it seemed, like Antec were trying to build a 900D competitor but failed, and after watching the review last night I have to say I am glad I never contemplated buying it.

Must not be easy tearing a product apart with very valid points when you rely on reviewing products to make a living, but I suppose someone has to be honest in reviews.

The build quality and options in this case just looks ridiculously poor.

Thank's for another great video and love the "Grumpy Cat" award.

 

[garih]

Bold move - normally they sell the uber cheap stuff

last time i was in pcworld i noticed they had a reasonable range of mech keyboards, decent range of headsets. and even products like the h60..

 

[ShaunB-91]

last time i was in pcworld i noticed they had a reasonable range of mech keyboards, decent range of headsets. and even products like the h60..

I was in there a few weeks ago and nearly picked up the Corsair m65 mouse, I think it was £55. But I thought no just wait.

 

[mihapiha]

TTL you improved my day so much with the bottom side panel button.

"Awesome build-quality" indeed :lol:

 

[Mysterae]

The Antec 1900 A.D. design more like.

It's as if they designed it purposely not to be able to fit their competitors products in it. Perhaps that was the designers remit. Although it has the potential to be modded to hell and back, I think you'd get bored very quickly with it.

I do hope Antec take the messages from Tom in the spirit and purpose as they're intended. We need more nice cases!

 

[dalewakelin]

Its a nice case on the outside but on the inside it is very shaky

 

[CrazyTeeka]

Someone could always mod this case to fix the flaws?

 

[Remmy]

Someone could always mod this case to fix the flaws?

Yeah true, but for the price these things should come as standard to be honest. It's not good if you have to mod a case just for functions which you should expect anyway :/

 

[Wraith]

Yeah true, but for the price these things should come as standard to be honest. It's not good if you have to mod a case just for functions which you should expect anyway :/

Couldn't agree more! At £235 I expect it to at least have some of the competitions features and to be honest the build quality is a touch slap dash.

 

[alpenwasser]

Wow, what an utter waste of potential. It really does look like it's from the year
2000 or so (minus the painted interior maybe).

Leaving the horrendous build quality aside (a disqualifier by itself for a Caselabs
fetishist like me), how a case with this feature set (if one can call it that) can be
brought to market in 2014 really is a proper mind-boggler.

 

[ShaunB-91]

"And it came from the year 2000...fuck all has changed but its black inter-ior"

Say that in your head in the busted tune way.

 

[CrazyTeeka]

My biggest dislike would be the side panels that you have to slam shut.

I wonder if Antec actually thought "Lets make a cheap case in a modern look, and make it over £200, no one will notice, will they?".

Or their R&D team is seriously out of touch with what makes a good case.

Or they just don't care and just want your money. ^_^

 

[Morgenmuffel]

This one is Interresting for tryal and Error Modding...but really?? 200 bugs for that 900D liked-crap? Size does matter for me but THIS is not worth the Words "Case"...is a thing that is big but thats all.

Thumbs for the Grumpy Cat Award...liked

 

[BigDaddyKong]

I think this vid may have set the record for the amount of F bombs has dropped in a review lol.

The construction looked terrible. How Antec has fallen. I agree that is could make a nice basic server build, but not for the price. I think this is going to get sales from uneducated people that has seen the Corsair 900D but run across this in a store.

I do like the outside shape of the case, and the red ring around the front. After that, glad I just picked up the Corsair case cheapish.

 

[nick9999]

I also like the front, but as enough people have already mentioned the build quality and the options are not that great.

I definatelly agree that it is too expensive for what it offers and I hope that Antec will improve.

I myself have an Antec One for my second PC and find it OK for a budget build, althought it is also very restrictive in the options it gives you, but to be fair there are also a couple of things which are really neat

By the way the grumpy cat award is simply awesome :notworthy:
But hopefully it wont need to be given out too often.

 

[Chadwokie]

watching this review...... made me soooooooo angry (my 1st case was a antec 900 and i loved it!)....... that being said that was like 5 years ago and this case doesnt look like its made any advances in design. I mean even the antec 900 had modular hdd bays!.........GRRRRRRRRRR and wtf at the use of space at the top and bottom of the case really makes me so frustrated with antec

 

[Vicey]

My first ever case for my own personal build was an Antec. That was like over a decade ago and it doesn't look like they've improved their build quality since then haha

 

[Bartacus]

My favorite part was when Tom was looking at the underside of the case, detailing the cheap feet, and I noticed the "QA PASS" sticker. I think Antec's QA department consists of 3 people: Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Helen Keller.