 This is the Antec 100 so it is self described as gaming performance that won't break your bank the 100 a member of Antec's Legendary line of gaming cases and I will agree with them about that the 100 series with standouts like the 900 the 300 Have been a staple for gamers everywhere. I remember going to fraga Palooza Gee, I guess it was a couple of years ago, but I did a bit of a walk around through the entire Whatever it was it was like a warehouse or an arena or something where they had all those people crammed into and I was I couldn't help noticing as I was walking around that probably about 20 to 30 percent of the people there had either an Antec 900 or a 300 and when you have that kind of dominance in terms of market share It's it's impressive regardless of what kind of product category you're talking about so let's see if the 100 can live up to the tradition of those great cases now based on the naming scheme and knowing already that the 300 is a pretty value Oriented gaming case and the 200 is even more so I would venture a guess that the 100 is all about value features versus luxury features, but we're going to see Exactly what this case is all about in just a moment here, so Here we go. Why don't we turn it this way first the first thing I noticed about it Is it doesn't have a window which is fine not every gamer necessarily wants a window on their case So I'm just going to try and find somewhere to stand where I can Easily point at things but not block all the light you know what I'm going to move to this side Okay, so the 100 we have on the outside Full mesh in the front so this is just like we're used to seeing this is a bit of a tighter mesh Versus what we've seen in the past on 100 series cases although It doesn't look to me as though it's going to restrict airflow in any meaningful way. We've got a nice Silver and black Antec logo down here at the bottom And it looks like you can actually move this around should you so desire because it's just on a five and a quarter inch Cover all right. We've got a pretty traditional looking 100 series look So this looks just like the 300 in terms of these ridges at the front We've got our power switch no reset switch Microphone headphones power as well as hard drive LEDs, and we have four front USB 2.0 So we don't have any USB 3.0 on this case although that is to be expected for a value chassis I'll go ahead and stay stay where you are. I'll rotate the case so on the side We've got an optional 120 millimeter fan mount and then on the top. We've actually got a pre-populated 140 millimeter fan so that's going to provide a lot of ventilation for the CPU area and then if you do install a power hungry and heat Generating GPU you can also install a fan back there here We've got another 120 millimeter fan in the back And then we also find a fairly standard layout in the rest of the back of the case although this is interesting look at this Okay, so we've got our IO shield and then we got one two three four five six seven eight PCI slots so this may be one of the best value cases on the market that is capable of accommodating Some of those extended motherboards that have more than seven PCI slots. That's kind of neat Don't forget to there is a use for this bottom PCI slot sometimes even if your motherboard Does not have extra slots for example the gigabyte x58 extreme Our ex 58 extreme whatever it was had a PCI express 16x slot at the very bottom So if you wanted to run three-way crossfire or SLI you actually needed either an empty space or an extra PCI slot at The very bottom in order to install a dual slot graphics card in that bottom one so there you have it bottom mounted power supply Okay, so standard ATX only we don't have any support for N techs CPX standard And we're going to go ahead and take these side panels off so N tech has included thumb screws Which is fortunate because I left my screwdriver upstairs Okay, we're going to take off the side panel There's a little bit of flex on the side panel But you have to expect that on a on a more value oriented case one of the tricks that I've often used in the past With thinner metal cases especially if you run into a Situation where the side panel is vibrating or something like that like you install a fan here and some of that vibration gets transferred To the side panel is you can actually put little bits of blue sticky tack on the inside Of the panel where it contacts the case and that can't eliminate any vibration So there's the other side panel go ahead and take that off Find somewhere to put it and here is the inside of the case so the first thing we find inside is a survey of All things so you should go to that url should you so desire and then Yeah, okay, we've got some hardware, so there's some soft silicon silicone Hard drive mounting grommets as well as screws And then we've got all the cases we need for Are the cases the screws we need for mounting the motherboard in the case and any drives and all that good stuff that we may require Okay here on the inside. We've got a couple little raised spots for the power supply to mountain however looking at the overall design of the case I'd say I'd recommend mounting your power supply with the fan up So that way you're going to make sure you're getting enough air flow into your fans some cases do have Mesh here at the bottom so that you can mount it fan side down But I don't think I'd do that in this particular case We've got one two three four five six three and a half inch bays although I can verify that if I actually check that yet We've got six internal three and a half three external five and a quarter inch bays And then we have one internal mounted two point five inch SSD mounting bay so actually you can see that if I turn the case this way there are our mounting points for installing An SSD in the 100 it looks like we've also got two front 120 millimeter fan mounts so the way those are going to be accessed is by pulling off the front bezel If I can figure out how to do it, and then I will gladly demonstrate for you guys Okay, one two three there. We are okay, so we can pull off the front bezel and from there It shouldn't be too challenging to figure out how to mount the Fans although I can't quite figure it out ah clips look at that Okay, I Think okay. Give me a moment Yeah, it's that simple you just take your fan you line it up in the right spot And clip it in just like that so that's how you mount your fans And then you can go ahead and install the front bezel back onto your case being careful that the wires are running into their Correct locations okay, so that's pretty much everything. I wanted to show you guys here at the front of the chassis So let's just see oh the way that hooks in is actually kind of neat so you can swing it out So then you can make sure everything hooks in correctly, and then it clips in on this side So I think that's pretty much everything there is to say about it. We've got a motherboard Motherboard tray cutout so you can install and uninstall Backplate requiring CPU heat sinks without taking your motherboard in or out of the case So that's a pretty nice convenience factor We've also got a little bit of cable management going on on the back here So they've included a couple zip ties as well as anchor points for a couple more Although most of the thicker cables like your 8 pin and like your 24 pin may or may not be able to run up the back of this motherboard tray Kind of hard to say, but I'm thinking I'm thinking maybe not You know what though guys if anyone has a 100 Please let me know if you were able to run your 24 pin and your 8 pin CPU power connector behind the back of the motherboard So thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at the Antec 100 Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos