**The Antec Performance Case: A Review**

I recently had the opportunity to build a PC using the Antec Performance case, and I must say that it was one of the most enjoyable builds I've done in a long time. From start to finish, this case exceeded my expectations in every way. The design is sleek and minimalistic, with a focus on ease of use and aesthetics.

One of the standout features of the Antec Performance case is its airflow system. The four included fans provide excellent cooling performance, even when the CPU temperatures are high. I tested the case by running a stress test that pushed the CPU core temperature up to 69 degrees, and then the memory junction went up one degree as well, resulting in a hot spot temperature increase of two degrees from 98 to 100 degrees. However, with the fans installed, the CPU temperatures only rose by one degree, even when the glass was on. This is a testament to the case's ability to maintain airflow and cooling performance even in challenging conditions.

The CPU temperatures with the glass on versus off also showed a slight increase of one degree during this test, but again, this is a minor quibble compared to the overall performance of the case. When it was just the CPU by itself, it performed really well, scoring a one-degree advantage with the glass on. This demonstrates that the Antec Performance case has been optimized for airflow and cooling performance, even when other components are not present.

Now that we've covered the performance aspects of the case, let's take a look at its design and features. The case is available in various configurations, including full-size ATX, which makes it an excellent choice for enthusiasts who want to build high-performance PCs without sacrificing too much space. The case itself is not huge, but it provides ample room for components such as the motherboard, power supply, and storage drives.

In terms of cable management, the Antec Performance case has made things very easy. There are numerous zip ties, velcro straps, and screws included, which can be used to manage cables in a neat and tidy manner. This makes it an excellent choice for those who value good aesthetics in their builds. The case also features a rear glass panel, which provides an excellent opportunity to showcase cable management.

One of the unique features of the Antec Performance case is its ability to accommodate 420mm radiators at the front of the case. This provides excellent cooling performance for liquid cooling systems, and it's a great option for enthusiasts who want to build high-performance PCs with advanced cooling systems. The case also features two 3.5-inch hard drive cages at the rear, which can be removed or left in place as desired.

In addition to its many features, the Antec Performance case has received some excellent feedback from users and reviewers alike. Many have praised the case's design, airflow system, and cable management capabilities. Some have noted that the case is a bit pricey at $150, but overall, it seems like a fair price for a high-quality case with so many features.

Finally, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the minor drawbacks to the Antec Performance case. As with any case, there are a few things that could be improved upon. However, in my opinion, these issues are minor and do not detract from the overall excellence of the case. Overall, I would highly recommend the Antec Performance case to anyone looking for an excellent case for their next build.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Antec Performance case is a true winner. From its sleek design to its excellent airflow system and cable management capabilities, this case has it all. The fact that it's available in various configurations, including full-size ATX, makes it an excellent choice for enthusiasts who want to build high-performance PCs without sacrificing too much space.

If you're looking for a new case for your next build, I would highly recommend the Antec Performance case. Its combination of design, airflow system, and cable management capabilities make it an excellent choice for anyone looking to build a high-performance PC. With its many features and excellent performance, this case is sure to exceed your expectations.

**Additional Features**

Some additional features worth mentioning include the inclusion of more zip ties, velcro straps, and screws than you'll need for most builds. This makes it easy to manage cables in a neat and tidy manner. The Antec Performance case also features RGB lighting from Team Force, which is fully compatible with Azeroth boards' bios. This means that you can easily customize your lighting scheme without having to install any software.

Overall, the Antec Performance case is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a high-quality case with many features and excellent performance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso look at that just pop it off and then you can clean out your front dust filter in two seconds this here my friends is antex performance one full sized ATX tower case which I haven't built in a full tower case in a long time so I'm really excited about this case in particular because it comes in with the size overall on the outside feeling more like a mid tower case yet inside here we've got support for eatx we've got the support for those extra long and fat and thick juicy graphics cards as well as being able to mount those vertically with a lot of room of clearance at the front so it's not going to hit the tempered glass but before we even start building in this case one thing that sets it apart from any other case that I've built in so far is just the modularity of the panels we dig off one screw at the back and the glass panels are then able to be taken off both at the front and rear as well as the top as well as the cable covers which will then require an additional three screws to remove also today's video is sponsored by antec however if you're watching this that means the product's really good because I don't take sponsorships for products that suck well actually in this case you'd kind of want the case to suck air though this time around antec have also listened to feedback and included not just three pwm 140 mil fans at the front they've also finally included that rear fan so you don't have to go out and spend any additional money on fans and they're also 30 mil thick pwm they'll be putting these four fans through a torture test later with temperatures to see if this case really is the performance one and we're going to be doing this today with a build here involving the Radeon 7900 XTX and the z790 Tai Chi Carrara with a 3900k so this is pretty much going to be some of the max heat that we can put through a case but also on top of that I really want to try out an AMD GPU in my main PC just to see if it's going to be especially better than my RTX 3090 because one thing with the 4080 and 4090 I just feel like those cards were just really just too big in general as opposed to a 7 100 XTX can fit in even a lot of mini ITX cases especially the smaller versions that are hitting the market foreign also we're just about to screw in the motherboard and this is just a really nice touch is they've segmented all the screws to how you would need them as well as giving you extra little slots here for say longer radiator screws and things like that that you may need in your build so the more we build in this case the more I like this thing all right so we're just about to install the power supply and this is the signature edition 1000 watt Platinum also from antec and I've been using their power suppliers on my test benches for all the benchmarking here at Tech yes City and they don't miss a beat they're also extremely quiet this is also on the 850 watt gold Raider that we used in the past this one's even more beefier and it's got a thousand Watts on the 12 volt Rail and also comes with a 10-year warranty and since this is going to be predominantly a video editing PC we're actually going to install two one terabyte ssds in raid zero however I would have liked these two have been mlc drives I think that would have given them a serious Advantage but one thing about these drives is that they are RGB and since this has a clear glass rear panel we'll be able to see the RGB on the rear of the build which should look pretty cool so you may have noticed up until this point in time we have been doing things in an unorthodox Manner and that we put the power supply in first without connecting the modular cables which you should probably connect the cables first in a lot of cases because there's not enough room but in the performance one here we've got the room even with a 160 mil long power supply to just connect all those cables easily after we've inserted the power supply but I also wanted to test out if we did the whole build first installing the water cooler last are we going to come in any problems so we're going to do that right now but this is the vortex 360 from antec this is their latest water cooler argb on the head argb on the fans then I'm after that we're going to connect all the fans up as well see if we come into any difficulties hahaha so finishing up this build I am just blown away from start to finish we came into zero hiccups this is easily so far I gotta still test the temperatures which we're installing Windows now and we're going to do very soon but so far this build is a 10 out of 10 this case it's absolutely phenomenal what antec have done where it's almost like they've just thought about everything from start to finish and made it so that any inconveniences even for someone building their first PC are just not going to be there so this thing is just so straightforward so user friendly and the end look is also going to be extremely professional both on the front and the rear though let's get on to seeing if this case sucks in a good way so we're going to test out the temperatures now with this 7900 XTX as well as the 13900k which we've actually gone into the BIOS disabled the e-cores because I'm having latency issues when I've got equals on when it comes to editing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro so if you're having a sort of some stuttering and problems in Windows manage to disable your e-cores too but we're going to be dumping hopefully over 500 watts into this case and testing it with the side panels on versus off just as a baseline test to see if the case is airflow is good and if it's the final component to basically say if this case is 10 out of 10 not just in the actual ease of building but the performance too now a really cool feature on the performance one is this right here it's a digital readout of your CPU temperatures but also if you press the button on the right hand side here you can change that to your GPU temperatures and in order to get this to work all you have to do is download the iunity software from antec's website it's a really lightweight package won't take up any system resources will very minimal and it'll also give you a very clean look on things that matter for your gaming PC or your video editing PC for instance the core utilization on CPU and GPU as well as the clock speeds the ddr4 memory speeds and how much you have and also most importantly the temperatures on both now besides this temperature button is a USB type-c two USB threes and a 4-pole mic in speaker out and then besides that your reset button and then your power button which is bigger than your reset button so after a couple of hours of testing this case out we are now on the final test here and that is the I9 3900k with the 7900 XTX dumping nearly 670 watts into this case and we're checking out the temperatures with the glass on versus the glass off and this is actually giving some really good results so far we've got another two minutes to run on this Benchmark but one really sad thing I had to do which is no fault of the case or the cooler I'm actually going to make a separate video on this because it's actually really sad is the I9 3900k when I disabled the e-cors it goes to 5.5 gigahertz all cores and the CPU is running up to 103 degrees now we tune that down 500 megahertz to 5 gigahertz all cores and so it's now 140 something Watts down from 250 Watts so basically from the wall we're saving 110 watts of power dumpage and our CPUs running over 25 degrees cooler now just for 10 performance and the sad thing is too it's not even a true 10 performance because the CPU is getting so hot internally that it's going down to 5.4 gigahertz so yeah anyway I wanted to test out this CPU consistently hence why I did this and our CPU temperatures are already looking really good in this case with the gloss on it actually scored a one degree Victory but let's now move over to the final result so we've now got the final results in for the antec performance one with the included default fans just plugged into the ASRock z790 motherboard and what we had here was one degree higher with the glass on on the GPU when both the CPU and GPU are going at Max load and this is a 400 watt dumpage straight into the case it's not a blower style cooler either just dumps all that heat just straight in there and it says to the case just deal with it and in this case all pun intended it did deal with it with the temperatures going up one degree on the GPU core from 68 to 69 degrees and then the memory Junction went up one degree as well and then the hot spot temperature went up two degrees from 98 to 100 degrees the CPU temperatures with the glass on versus off went up one degree during this test as well but like we said before when it was just the CPU by itself it did perform really well scoring actually a one degree Advantage with the glass on meaning that antec have done a great job in optimizing airflow on this design of the performance ones though with those numbers out of the way it's time to give this thing a conclusion and honestly guys this is the best case I have built in to date from start to finish such an easy case to get such an Immaculate Schmick looking build both front and rear without any effort there's also no sharp edges everything is just minimalistic yet so simple and it looks so good and then on top of all that we've got the airflow with the four included fans being top-notch as well so this thing is pretty much as close to a 10 out of 10 that you are going to get with a case and then to top all that off it's 150 bucks and it's full-size ATX but it's kind of not full size ATX in that the whole case itself isn't so large so this thing is just a win it's in another League of its own not just for those previous and Tech cases that I've looked at but versus any other case that I've taken a look at it's like these guys at antec basically said how can we make this thing as easy as possible but not exclude any of the things that enthusiasts are going to love in a build so in my opinion they've just absolutely nailed it with this case and looking at the rear of this build I'm thinking wow that looks clean and if you guys follow a lot of my builds my cable management isn't my strongest point but the fact that this thing can just do it so easily and get such a good result with that rear glass also looking just as good as the front of this PC where usually if I'm looking for a case I usually make sure that the rear is no glass at all because I don't want people seeing my cable management but this time around it is completely different I want people to see the rear of this build because it just looks so good and for 150 dollars I can easily understand now why antac wanted me to delay doing this video because they told me Brian there's no point in you releasing this video because the case is just sold out but now it's coming back into stock and it's just an absolute winner of a case antec keep doing this and please do it on Mini ITX and other form factors as well because yeah complete home run here mind blown but with this case I went out of my way to also try and find some negative points uh building in an unorthodox Manner and just nothing I couldn't get there in the end the people at antec thought of everything from start to finish and I'd love to see that good job and Tech and if you guys get this case you are absolutely going to love it also some things I forgot to mention you can fit a 420 mil rad at the front of the case and at the rear you've got the option for two 3.5 inch hard drives with that cage which you can remove if you want to or you can have four ssds and one 3.5 inch or two 3.5 inches and three ssds at the rear in terms of included zip ties velcro tires as well as screws they've included more than you'll need for this build so they've done a really good job there the cooler and the RGB which is from Team Force for the ssds they all have argb controllers which we've all hooked up and Daisy chained off One controller and then plug that off the motherboard and that all works from asrock's bios so I can just have any RGB I want just by setting it in the Bios it all matches every component and I don't have to install any software in Windows which is one of the things I love about Azeroth boards the Seuss so do let us know in the comments section below what you guys think of this build are you digging it would there be some things you would change personally love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I will put some links in the description below if you want to check out some of the components we used here today especially the antac performance one and with that aside I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon if you stay this far and you're enjoying that Tech yes content be sure to hit that like button ring that Bell and I'll catch you on another tech video very soon peace out for now byeso look at that just pop it off and then you can clean out your front dust filter in two seconds this here my friends is antex performance one full sized ATX tower case which I haven't built in a full tower case in a long time so I'm really excited about this case in particular because it comes in with the size overall on the outside feeling more like a mid tower case yet inside here we've got support for eatx we've got the support for those extra long and fat and thick juicy graphics cards as well as being able to mount those vertically with a lot of room of clearance at the front so it's not going to hit the tempered glass but before we even start building in this case one thing that sets it apart from any other case that I've built in so far is just the modularity of the panels we dig off one screw at the back and the glass panels are then able to be taken off both at the front and rear as well as the top as well as the cable covers which will then require an additional three screws to remove also today's video is sponsored by antec however if you're watching this that means the product's really good because I don't take sponsorships for products that suck well actually in this case you'd kind of want the case to suck air though this time around antec have also listened to feedback and included not just three pwm 140 mil fans at the front they've also finally included that rear fan so you don't have to go out and spend any additional money on fans and they're also 30 mil thick pwm they'll be putting these four fans through a torture test later with temperatures to see if this case really is the performance one and we're going to be doing this today with a build here involving the Radeon 7900 XTX and the z790 Tai Chi Carrara with a 3900k so this is pretty much going to be some of the max heat that we can put through a case but also on top of that I really want to try out an AMD GPU in my main PC just to see if it's going to be especially better than my RTX 3090 because one thing with the 4080 and 4090 I just feel like those cards were just really just too big in general as opposed to a 7 100 XTX can fit in even a lot of mini ITX cases especially the smaller versions that are hitting the market foreign also we're just about to screw in the motherboard and this is just a really nice touch is they've segmented all the screws to how you would need them as well as giving you extra little slots here for say longer radiator screws and things like that that you may need in your build so the more we build in this case the more I like this thing all right so we're just about to install the power supply and this is the signature edition 1000 watt Platinum also from antec and I've been using their power suppliers on my test benches for all the benchmarking here at Tech yes City and they don't miss a beat they're also extremely quiet this is also on the 850 watt gold Raider that we used in the past this one's even more beefier and it's got a thousand Watts on the 12 volt Rail and also comes with a 10-year warranty and since this is going to be predominantly a video editing PC we're actually going to install two one terabyte ssds in raid zero however I would have liked these two have been mlc drives I think that would have given them a serious Advantage but one thing about these drives is that they are RGB and since this has a clear glass rear panel we'll be able to see the RGB on the rear of the build which should look pretty cool so you may have noticed up until this point in time we have been doing things in an unorthodox Manner and that we put the power supply in first without connecting the modular cables which you should probably connect the cables first in a lot of cases because there's not enough room but in the performance one here we've got the room even with a 160 mil long power supply to just connect all those cables easily after we've inserted the power supply but I also wanted to test out if we did the whole build first installing the water cooler last are we going to come in any problems so we're going to do that right now but this is the vortex 360 from antec this is their latest water cooler argb on the head argb on the fans then I'm after that we're going to connect all the fans up as well see if we come into any difficulties hahaha so finishing up this build I am just blown away from start to finish we came into zero hiccups this is easily so far I gotta still test the temperatures which we're installing Windows now and we're going to do very soon but so far this build is a 10 out of 10 this case it's absolutely phenomenal what antec have done where it's almost like they've just thought about everything from start to finish and made it so that any inconveniences even for someone building their first PC are just not going to be there so this thing is just so straightforward so user friendly and the end look is also going to be extremely professional both on the front and the rear though let's get on to seeing if this case sucks in a good way so we're going to test out the temperatures now with this 7900 XTX as well as the 13900k which we've actually gone into the BIOS disabled the e-cores because I'm having latency issues when I've got equals on when it comes to editing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro so if you're having a sort of some stuttering and problems in Windows manage to disable your e-cores too but we're going to be dumping hopefully over 500 watts into this case and testing it with the side panels on versus off just as a baseline test to see if the case is airflow is good and if it's the final component to basically say if this case is 10 out of 10 not just in the actual ease of building but the performance too now a really cool feature on the performance one is this right here it's a digital readout of your CPU temperatures but also if you press the button on the right hand side here you can change that to your GPU temperatures and in order to get this to work all you have to do is download the iunity software from antec's website it's a really lightweight package won't take up any system resources will very minimal and it'll also give you a very clean look on things that matter for your gaming PC or your video editing PC for instance the core utilization on CPU and GPU as well as the clock speeds the ddr4 memory speeds and how much you have and also most importantly the temperatures on both now besides this temperature button is a USB type-c two USB threes and a 4-pole mic in speaker out and then besides that your reset button and then your power button which is bigger than your reset button so after a couple of hours of testing this case out we are now on the final test here and that is the I9 3900k with the 7900 XTX dumping nearly 670 watts into this case and we're checking out the temperatures with the glass on versus the glass off and this is actually giving some really good results so far we've got another two minutes to run on this Benchmark but one really sad thing I had to do which is no fault of the case or the cooler I'm actually going to make a separate video on this because it's actually really sad is the I9 3900k when I disabled the e-cors it goes to 5.5 gigahertz all cores and the CPU is running up to 103 degrees now we tune that down 500 megahertz to 5 gigahertz all cores and so it's now 140 something Watts down from 250 Watts so basically from the wall we're saving 110 watts of power dumpage and our CPUs running over 25 degrees cooler now just for 10 performance and the sad thing is too it's not even a true 10 performance because the CPU is getting so hot internally that it's going down to 5.4 gigahertz so yeah anyway I wanted to test out this CPU consistently hence why I did this and our CPU temperatures are already looking really good in this case with the gloss on it actually scored a one degree Victory but let's now move over to the final result so we've now got the final results in for the antec performance one with the included default fans just plugged into the ASRock z790 motherboard and what we had here was one degree higher with the glass on on the GPU when both the CPU and GPU are going at Max load and this is a 400 watt dumpage straight into the case it's not a blower style cooler either just dumps all that heat just straight in there and it says to the case just deal with it and in this case all pun intended it did deal with it with the temperatures going up one degree on the GPU core from 68 to 69 degrees and then the memory Junction went up one degree as well and then the hot spot temperature went up two degrees from 98 to 100 degrees the CPU temperatures with the glass on versus off went up one degree during this test as well but like we said before when it was just the CPU by itself it did perform really well scoring actually a one degree Advantage with the glass on meaning that antec have done a great job in optimizing airflow on this design of the performance ones though with those numbers out of the way it's time to give this thing a conclusion and honestly guys this is the best case I have built in to date from start to finish such an easy case to get such an Immaculate Schmick looking build both front and rear without any effort there's also no sharp edges everything is just minimalistic yet so simple and it looks so good and then on top of all that we've got the airflow with the four included fans being top-notch as well so this thing is pretty much as close to a 10 out of 10 that you are going to get with a case and then to top all that off it's 150 bucks and it's full-size ATX but it's kind of not full size ATX in that the whole case itself isn't so large so this thing is just a win it's in another League of its own not just for those previous and Tech cases that I've looked at but versus any other case that I've taken a look at it's like these guys at antec basically said how can we make this thing as easy as possible but not exclude any of the things that enthusiasts are going to love in a build so in my opinion they've just absolutely nailed it with this case and looking at the rear of this build I'm thinking wow that looks clean and if you guys follow a lot of my builds my cable management isn't my strongest point but the fact that this thing can just do it so easily and get such a good result with that rear glass also looking just as good as the front of this PC where usually if I'm looking for a case I usually make sure that the rear is no glass at all because I don't want people seeing my cable management but this time around it is completely different I want people to see the rear of this build because it just looks so good and for 150 dollars I can easily understand now why antac wanted me to delay doing this video because they told me Brian there's no point in you releasing this video because the case is just sold out but now it's coming back into stock and it's just an absolute winner of a case antec keep doing this and please do it on Mini ITX and other form factors as well because yeah complete home run here mind blown but with this case I went out of my way to also try and find some negative points uh building in an unorthodox Manner and just nothing I couldn't get there in the end the people at antec thought of everything from start to finish and I'd love to see that good job and Tech and if you guys get this case you are absolutely going to love it also some things I forgot to mention you can fit a 420 mil rad at the front of the case and at the rear you've got the option for two 3.5 inch hard drives with that cage which you can remove if you want to or you can have four ssds and one 3.5 inch or two 3.5 inches and three ssds at the rear in terms of included zip ties velcro tires as well as screws they've included more than you'll need for this build so they've done a really good job there the cooler and the RGB which is from Team Force for the ssds they all have argb controllers which we've all hooked up and Daisy chained off One controller and then plug that off the motherboard and that all works from asrock's bios so I can just have any RGB I want just by setting it in the Bios it all matches every component and I don't have to install any software in Windows which is one of the things I love about Azeroth boards the Seuss so do let us know in the comments section below what you guys think of this build are you digging it would there be some things you would change personally love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I will put some links in the description below if you want to check out some of the components we used here today especially the antac performance one and with that aside I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon if you stay this far and you're enjoying that Tech yes content be sure to hit that like button ring that Bell and I'll catch you on another tech video very soon peace out for now bye\n"