Antec Twelve Hundred for $140 @ Newegg

**WileECyte** · 10-20-08, 03:35 PM

*BUMP*

Last day for this deal. I just ordered mine.

**WileECyte** · 10-24-08, 08:26 AM

Man, I love this case. I went from an Antec SOHO (which is a pretty big case in itself) to the Twelve Hundred. Now I have a TON of room in the case and airflow couldn't be better. This is mostly in part to the fact that you are able to run the cables behind the motherboard tray. My CPU is idling now almost 8 degrees cooler and under load it's a good 15 degrees cooler. Absolutely love the hard drive chassis. Makes installing drives a snap. I'll snap some pictures tonight.

**Veovis** · 10-24-08, 09:19 AM

Yeh I went from an Antec Sonata II (smaller case) with only two fans, and surprisingly my temps didn't change that much, with the fans on low at least. But I still love the case. Some people in the reviews were complaining that you had to take the whole HDD cases out to remove the filters for cleaning, which almost deterred me from buying it, but that turned out to not even be true. You DO have to remove all 8 screws on each tray but then you can just slide it forward an inch so you can slide the filter out the front. I'm pretty happy with the case too, can see myself using it for at least 5 years hopefully, maybe more.

EDIT: I also wish the case had a firewire connection on the front. Oh well, guess this is a gamer case and most gamers don't need that. Well, nobody will in a while anyway, but for now I still use it on my HDV camera. Will eventually move to a SSD video camera. Just will have to connect to back panel for now.