Unboxing and Review: Budget PC Cases from Antech and Cooler Master

When it comes to building a computer, one of the most important decisions you'll make is choosing a case that fits your budget and meets all your needs. In this article, we'll be reviewing some budget-friendly options from Antech and Cooler Master, including the Antech 900D, Antech 1900, Antech GX900, Antech P100, Cooler Master Silencio 452, and other affordable cases that are perfect for system builders.

The Antech 900D is one of the most popular budget cases on the market, with a price point of around $200. It features a unique design with a rear panel that opens separately from the glass panel that covers the motherboard and core components. The case also includes three 200 mm fans installed stock with removable dust filters. One of the standout features of this case is its modular cage system, which allows for easy cable management.

The Antech 1900 is another budget-friendly option from Antech, priced at around $205. It's a large case that can fit almost every radiator on the market, including 420 mm units. The case also features a unique design with a side panel that opens with a key, and it includes nine expansion slots for adding more components.

The Antech GX900 is similar to the GX700 in terms of its target market and features, but it has a slightly different body and chassis. It's priced at around $7, and it ships with support for 170 mm CPU coolers in height, which covers most mid-to-high-end CPUs on the market.

The Antech P100 is another budget-friendly option from Antech, with a price point of around $100. While it has some drawbacks, such as a flimsy front panel, it's still a great value for system builders who want to build a powerful PC without breaking the bank.

Finally, we have the Cooler Master Silencio 452, which is priced at around $95. This case is designed with silent operation in mind, using 800 RPM fans that are much quieter than traditional fans. The case also features a unique design with slits in the side of the case, which directs noise away from the user and toward the back or side of the case.

Comparison and Conclusion

All of these cases offer great value for system builders who want to build a powerful PC on a budget. While they may not have all the bells and whistles of more expensive cases, they still provide plenty of features and options for customization.

In terms of size, the Antech 1900 is one of the largest cases on this list, with support for up to 17 total drives. The Antech 900D is also a large case, but it's slightly smaller than the 1900. The Antech GX900 is similar in size to the 900D, while the Antech P100 is smaller and more compact.

The Cooler Master Silencio 452 is one of the quieter cases on this list, thanks to its 800 RPM fans. However, it's also slightly smaller than some of the other cases, with support for up to 158 mm CPU coolers.

Ultimately, the best case for you will depend on your specific needs and budget. If you want a large case with plenty of expansion slots, the Antech 1900 may be the way to go. If you're looking for a quiet case with silent fans, the Cooler Master Silencio 452 is worth considering. And if you're on a tight budget, the Antech P100 or GX900 may be the best option.

Conclusion

Building a computer can be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to break the bank. With these budget-friendly cases from Antech and Cooler Master, system builders can build a powerful PC that meets all their needs without sacrificing performance for price. Whether you're looking for a large case with plenty of expansion slots or a quiet case with silent fans, there's something on this list for everyone.

If you don't like these budget options, check out the Rosewell Stealth, which is reviewed in a separate video on our YouTube channel. It's a great alternative to these cases and offers many of the same features at a lower price point.

As always, thanks for watching and we'll see you all next time.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone this is Steve from Gamers nexus.net and today we're doing a case Roundup for 2014 this includes all of the cases for the most part that I saw at CES 2014 so we're highlighting some of the best of the best here I did see about 30 cases and this one we're going to start with the mid-range gaming enclosures so uh this will be cases in the 100 to$ 160 $170 range stuff that we technically 150 plus you're entering Enthusiast but we're going to call it mid-range so first of all we're starting off with the NZXT h440 case this is the one I'm not afraid to call an innovator in some ways I mean they they remov the optical drive Bas so sure other cases have certainly done that uh but in this market it's generally not seen too much for gaming enclosures so NZXT has removed the optical drive Bays they've also added a power supply shroud covering the power supply and all the cabling which is awesome that's something that's generally modded in by case modders they added in stock so that's pretty cool it's it's uh not something you have to pay extra for or anything it's just included this is a $120 case it ships with three 120 mm front fans and can support obviously a 360 mm uh Radiator in the front if you remove those fans and additionally the top will support a 360 mm radiator if for some reason you wanted to or if you just wanted at the top and uh and then the rear supports a standard 140 mm fan and that's about it there are no bottom fans because the PSU shroud covers everything and there are no Drive scaffolding mounted fans so that is the h440 it's very cool looking uh it's it ships in black red and white black so basically on this case you're seeing right now replace all the white with black and all the black with red and that's the other option and here's a photo of it so that's the h440 let's move on to the next uh the next mid-range case here this is a $160 case is $40 more than the h440 and it's the thermal take core v71 so the core V7 I thought was pretty neat when I saw it in their suite at CES 2014 it weighs in slightly above the h440 in terms of size and price uh that said it it does have a bit more cooling support if you want a 420 mm radiator for whatever reason if you're building something insane go for it this is the case supports 420 mm radiators in the top and the front and supports just about every other radiator size in the bottom the back you name it in terms of cool features you can actually mount a hard drive vertically on the rear side of the case the right side so if you want to mount something vertically and get easier access for cabling you can do that and finally it does come with a pretty large side panel window this is different from the t81 which we'll get to in a second the the side panel on the v71 is just a standard side panel it's one window one panel no no uh quote unquote suicide doors that you'll see on the t81 it is mesh across the whole case so the front and the top that's all mesh and then the sides are standard steel and now we're moving into the enthusiast Market this is for cases that are in the 180 plus sort of spectrum and we're starting with corsair's graphite 760t it is a full tower case I was in love with this case when I saw it at CES just because of the massive side window it's it's pretty neat it's uh it actually hinges outward so the side window gives you good visibility inside of course this one they had on display actually has the fourth video card is bent so don't do that at home it will be very bad for your motherboard but that was a display system so I imagine it was a shipping issue the 760t in terms of fans ships stock with three 140 mm fans those are the af140 L's it also has an included fan controller that can switch between high and low that's 12 volts and 7 volts so you can run the fans at about half speed maybe 60% speed aftermarket air cooling uh you can include three 140 mm fans in the top two 140s in the front and one 140 for rear exhaust and then finally a 120 mm bottom mounted fan if you want that for your video card cooling so the biggest thing here is just really it's just the window the window is the coolest thing overall pretty easy to Cable manage from what we've seen and very goodlooking with the side panel so moving on cooler Master's half XC doesn't yet have a price and it's actually in flux this case might not make it to Market in its current form so do let Cooler Master know if you'd like to see it this one is special because it's kind of like corsair's carbide air 540 that's the the double wide case as I call it it is like a double wide trailer in both the air 540 and the half X XC that we're talking about now you install the power supply and the drives and some of the other non-essential we'll call them board components in the right half of the case they're completely obscured to the user and then you install the board and everything else as standard in the left half of the case and on the half XC the left half has a full side panel window so just like the the case I just spoke about it covers the entire side panel so you can see everything in there and it actually bends around angles around the corners which is pretty neat so uh that that can give you some pretty awesome options for lighting and Cascade lighting effects if you do any modding moving on to the thermal take t81 this is our next enthusias class case this one is priced at $180 is thermal take sort of described it as a 900d that fits under your desk so instead of being your desk it fits under your desk which is probably a good thing because the 900d is pretty freaking big so we saw that last year the t81 is part of thermal Tes Urban Family of cases and it's similar to the v71 except it has a hinging quote unquote suicide door left panel you can actually use a key to open the side panel and then there's a black steel body that covers the drive scaffolding that opens separately from the glass panel that covers the motherboard and the rest of the core components other than that it does shi with the same full radiator support it fits about every radiator you can possibly think of and just like the v71 it's the 420 mm you know 360 whatever everything so same specs just a little different side panel and a little bit more expensive and it includes three 200 mm fans installed stock with removable dust filters and that's pretty much it for this one it does again have modular cages moving on to the antech 1900 this is our final in the Enthusiast lineup it is a $25 case technically I think MSRP is like 270 but it's everywhere for 205 so that's what it is as far as I'm concerned I've actually I saw it for 170 which was an insane deal on NewEgg definitely keep an eye out for that in the future again the 900d had a huge Target on its back this year antech and Cooler Master were both gunning for it so it was thermal take and even Corsair is kind of competing with themselves in a way but no one quite touches it in terms of size the 1900 is a little bit skinnier than the 900d it's a little bit shorter but it offers almost the the same internal specs so it fits I think 17 total drives that's including the 5.25 drives so it will fit 12 3.5s and two 2.5S natively and then three five and a quarter drives it has nine expansion slots so it's a pretty damn big case and uh stock it ships with all fluid Dynamic bearing fans these are real FDB fans not the fake ones that we've seen with other cases and they are in order 310 mm front fdbs two 120 mm top and one 120 mm rear pre-installed fan so that's everything for the 1900 definitely worth looking into I was pretty excited about the price for the amount of features we get moving on finally to the last two budget cases so these are the ultra budget cases for system Builders the gx900 is the first one I don't have a price on this yet I have a very good indication that it is going to be a sub7 price point but we will see it's similar to the gx700 that I reviewed recently the the body the chassis are a little bit different but in terms of target market it is very similar to the gx700 uh it ships with support for 170 mm CPU coolers in height so that's pretty good that covers just about everything including the Argon ar01 and a 310 mm video card so again just about every video card on the market except for maybe some really crazy ones Cable Management wasn't a huge feature with this case as with all the other ones we've discussed but it does have enough room you can fit pretty much a whole hand back there so as far as we're concerned you'll be able to manage it easily enough and uh it might take some more fighting than the other cases but definitely a possibility to manage all your cables so nothing too special here I want to give a quick shout to the p100 because it's also a very good case the front panel is a little too flimsy for my taste hopefully they'll fix that but it is a $100 case if you want something slightly more expensive also from antech and finally Cooler Master silencio 452 is a $95 case it is a silent themed case so it uses 800 RPM fans which are they're a little bit slower but much quieter I think they advertise 15 DBA I'm not sure how they test that but that's what they advertise it doesn't use mesh paneling for the fans instead it uses slits in the side of the case similar to the h630 by NZXT and what that means is the noise is directed away from the user toward the back or the side of the case so the user isn't hearing as much of the fan noise the the case itself has a more discreet look it's all pretty flat matte colored and uh and not too gamer themed quote unquote this case does support slightly smaller CPU coolers so keep that in mind you're going to eliminate a few since it's only 158 mm in height hit the link in the description below for the full article coverage and quick shout out if you don't like these budget options check out the Rosewell stealth that's in a a video it should be on the sidebar my Rosewell CES coverage that's a bit cheaper and uh yeah as always thanks for watching we will see you all next time time peacehey everyone this is Steve from Gamers nexus.net and today we're doing a case Roundup for 2014 this includes all of the cases for the most part that I saw at CES 2014 so we're highlighting some of the best of the best here I did see about 30 cases and this one we're going to start with the mid-range gaming enclosures so uh this will be cases in the 100 to$ 160 $170 range stuff that we technically 150 plus you're entering Enthusiast but we're going to call it mid-range so first of all we're starting off with the NZXT h440 case this is the one I'm not afraid to call an innovator in some ways I mean they they remov the optical drive Bas so sure other cases have certainly done that uh but in this market it's generally not seen too much for gaming enclosures so NZXT has removed the optical drive Bays they've also added a power supply shroud covering the power supply and all the cabling which is awesome that's something that's generally modded in by case modders they added in stock so that's pretty cool it's it's uh not something you have to pay extra for or anything it's just included this is a $120 case it ships with three 120 mm front fans and can support obviously a 360 mm uh Radiator in the front if you remove those fans and additionally the top will support a 360 mm radiator if for some reason you wanted to or if you just wanted at the top and uh and then the rear supports a standard 140 mm fan and that's about it there are no bottom fans because the PSU shroud covers everything and there are no Drive scaffolding mounted fans so that is the h440 it's very cool looking uh it's it ships in black red and white black so basically on this case you're seeing right now replace all the white with black and all the black with red and that's the other option and here's a photo of it so that's the h440 let's move on to the next uh the next mid-range case here this is a $160 case is $40 more than the h440 and it's the thermal take core v71 so the core V7 I thought was pretty neat when I saw it in their suite at CES 2014 it weighs in slightly above the h440 in terms of size and price uh that said it it does have a bit more cooling support if you want a 420 mm radiator for whatever reason if you're building something insane go for it this is the case supports 420 mm radiators in the top and the front and supports just about every other radiator size in the bottom the back you name it in terms of cool features you can actually mount a hard drive vertically on the rear side of the case the right side so if you want to mount something vertically and get easier access for cabling you can do that and finally it does come with a pretty large side panel window this is different from the t81 which we'll get to in a second the the side panel on the v71 is just a standard side panel it's one window one panel no no uh quote unquote suicide doors that you'll see on the t81 it is mesh across the whole case so the front and the top that's all mesh and then the sides are standard steel and now we're moving into the enthusiast Market this is for cases that are in the 180 plus sort of spectrum and we're starting with corsair's graphite 760t it is a full tower case I was in love with this case when I saw it at CES just because of the massive side window it's it's pretty neat it's uh it actually hinges outward so the side window gives you good visibility inside of course this one they had on display actually has the fourth video card is bent so don't do that at home it will be very bad for your motherboard but that was a display system so I imagine it was a shipping issue the 760t in terms of fans ships stock with three 140 mm fans those are the af140 L's it also has an included fan controller that can switch between high and low that's 12 volts and 7 volts so you can run the fans at about half speed maybe 60% speed aftermarket air cooling uh you can include three 140 mm fans in the top two 140s in the front and one 140 for rear exhaust and then finally a 120 mm bottom mounted fan if you want that for your video card cooling so the biggest thing here is just really it's just the window the window is the coolest thing overall pretty easy to Cable manage from what we've seen and very goodlooking with the side panel so moving on cooler Master's half XC doesn't yet have a price and it's actually in flux this case might not make it to Market in its current form so do let Cooler Master know if you'd like to see it this one is special because it's kind of like corsair's carbide air 540 that's the the double wide case as I call it it is like a double wide trailer in both the air 540 and the half X XC that we're talking about now you install the power supply and the drives and some of the other non-essential we'll call them board components in the right half of the case they're completely obscured to the user and then you install the board and everything else as standard in the left half of the case and on the half XC the left half has a full side panel window so just like the the case I just spoke about it covers the entire side panel so you can see everything in there and it actually bends around angles around the corners which is pretty neat so uh that that can give you some pretty awesome options for lighting and Cascade lighting effects if you do any modding moving on to the thermal take t81 this is our next enthusias class case this one is priced at $180 is thermal take sort of described it as a 900d that fits under your desk so instead of being your desk it fits under your desk which is probably a good thing because the 900d is pretty freaking big so we saw that last year the t81 is part of thermal Tes Urban Family of cases and it's similar to the v71 except it has a hinging quote unquote suicide door left panel you can actually use a key to open the side panel and then there's a black steel body that covers the drive scaffolding that opens separately from the glass panel that covers the motherboard and the rest of the core components other than that it does shi with the same full radiator support it fits about every radiator you can possibly think of and just like the v71 it's the 420 mm you know 360 whatever everything so same specs just a little different side panel and a little bit more expensive and it includes three 200 mm fans installed stock with removable dust filters and that's pretty much it for this one it does again have modular cages moving on to the antech 1900 this is our final in the Enthusiast lineup it is a $25 case technically I think MSRP is like 270 but it's everywhere for 205 so that's what it is as far as I'm concerned I've actually I saw it for 170 which was an insane deal on NewEgg definitely keep an eye out for that in the future again the 900d had a huge Target on its back this year antech and Cooler Master were both gunning for it so it was thermal take and even Corsair is kind of competing with themselves in a way but no one quite touches it in terms of size the 1900 is a little bit skinnier than the 900d it's a little bit shorter but it offers almost the the same internal specs so it fits I think 17 total drives that's including the 5.25 drives so it will fit 12 3.5s and two 2.5S natively and then three five and a quarter drives it has nine expansion slots so it's a pretty damn big case and uh stock it ships with all fluid Dynamic bearing fans these are real FDB fans not the fake ones that we've seen with other cases and they are in order 310 mm front fdbs two 120 mm top and one 120 mm rear pre-installed fan so that's everything for the 1900 definitely worth looking into I was pretty excited about the price for the amount of features we get moving on finally to the last two budget cases so these are the ultra budget cases for system Builders the gx900 is the first one I don't have a price on this yet I have a very good indication that it is going to be a sub7 price point but we will see it's similar to the gx700 that I reviewed recently the the body the chassis are a little bit different but in terms of target market it is very similar to the gx700 uh it ships with support for 170 mm CPU coolers in height so that's pretty good that covers just about everything including the Argon ar01 and a 310 mm video card so again just about every video card on the market except for maybe some really crazy ones Cable Management wasn't a huge feature with this case as with all the other ones we've discussed but it does have enough room you can fit pretty much a whole hand back there so as far as we're concerned you'll be able to manage it easily enough and uh it might take some more fighting than the other cases but definitely a possibility to manage all your cables so nothing too special here I want to give a quick shout to the p100 because it's also a very good case the front panel is a little too flimsy for my taste hopefully they'll fix that but it is a $100 case if you want something slightly more expensive also from antech and finally Cooler Master silencio 452 is a $95 case it is a silent themed case so it uses 800 RPM fans which are they're a little bit slower but much quieter I think they advertise 15 DBA I'm not sure how they test that but that's what they advertise it doesn't use mesh paneling for the fans instead it uses slits in the side of the case similar to the h630 by NZXT and what that means is the noise is directed away from the user toward the back or the side of the case so the user isn't hearing as much of the fan noise the the case itself has a more discreet look it's all pretty flat matte colored and uh and not too gamer themed quote unquote this case does support slightly smaller CPU coolers so keep that in mind you're going to eliminate a few since it's only 158 mm in height hit the link in the description below for the full article coverage and quick shout out if you don't like these budget options check out the Rosewell stealth that's in a a video it should be on the sidebar my Rosewell CES coverage that's a bit cheaper and uh yeah as always thanks for watching we will see you all next time time peace\n"