 Today we'll be doing an unboxing and overview of the Antec Dark Fleet DF85. This is a full tower chassis and why don't we do a quick overview of the features that it includes. First of all you have a 2.5 inch SSD slot right in the top of the drive. This runs at your full SATA speed whatever you hook up to it. So that's a pretty neat feature if you want to plug an SSD into the front of your case. And then we've also got four external 3.5 inch fleet swap SATA drive bays. So these are hot swap SATA bays that you can actually move around within the case. Much like the Antec 1200 you can actually take the whole module and move it somewhere else if you want. These accept 3.5 inch drives. And then we have fleet release drive bay access doors. Fleet release basically is a name for their door that includes a fan, a fan control knob, a stepless fan control knob. So you can have the fan run at any speed you want as well as a fan filter. This gives you access to the hard drive bays as well as the fleet swap bays. Next we have USB 3.0 on the front, a single port. And it is SSD hard drive compatible. It is designed by Antec in California. And what else do we have on the outside of the box that I can tell you about. There's a picture of the case. I don't think that's all that relevant. Then we've got a big long list of specs. Cameraman if you want to just have a look at the spec list they can always pause it and have a look if they feel like it. We have three front USB 2.0 ports. That's probably relevant. As well as the one USB 3.0 port, color coded blue. CPU cut out for easy CPU installation. And oh it accepts CPX power supplies. That's pretty relevant too. Because Antec CP850 and CP1000 are both really good units at a really good price. So let's get this thing opened up. This is my cheat sheet today by the way because there's a lot of stuff to remember about this case. And from time to time I do actually try to learn about the product before I unbox it. Rather than just trying to learn on camera. Look at this. I prepared everything today. I've got a knife. I've got my screwdriver. And I even have an SSD drive to put into the little SSD slot. That is preparation. So first thing we find inside the box is a piece of paper. Are you even able to hear me? You can hear me? Okay. So we find a piece of paper that tells us this is a product overview. And we've also got some screws. Okay why don't we just open this up and see what's inside. Okay product overview will only provide general information. Shows you where all the fans are and stuff. Oh hey hey hey this is cool. So there's an SSD mount. I'll show you that once we get inside the case. And then next we have some hard drive grommets. We've got some thumb screws, motherboard screws, drive screws. As well as a couple reusable cable ties. Thank you Antec. Cable ties are always a plus on a new case. And I can't get this out so I'm going to use the old trick. Put it upside down. And there we go. Roll and hold. Wow it comes in really good foam. I'll give it that much. This is a high quality closed cell foam. You can be assured that your Antec DF85 will not be damaged in transit. You've got a good inch plus of packing material on all sides. And you can see that it arrived in very good condition when it was shipped to NCIX. Alright let's get the plastic off here. And the first thing you'll notice is that it's pretty similar in structure to the Antec 1200. So it's been upgraded in a lot of ways. But the general shape is quite... reminds me quite a bit of the Antec 1200. Including the side window here. So it does have a side window. Which has an optional 120mm fan mount for a graphics card fan. Then we have some thumb screws on the back. So I'm just going to get this opened up so we can have a good look at it. Why don't we do the rest of the outside first. Here I'll take that off. And we'll take off the inside one in a little bit here. But let's have a look at the fleet release as well as fleet swap base. So first of all these are the fleet release... Oh man I can't even remember which is fleet release and which is fleet swap. Help me. Okay these are the fleet release base. So these open up somehow. Okay let's see if we can figure out how to do it. That would be the key. Is to figure out how to open them. There has to be a way. And it can't be all that complicated because you can't call something like fleet. Like fast. Like swift. Okay well that was easy. Does this just come out like that? No? Well these are easy. So these are just covers for your 5.25 inch base. Okay so there we go. We've got that much figured out. And then we have... Okay why don't I try opening up the side panel first. And see if I can figure out how to get these open. So the side panel has a nice clear window on it. One of the things that they have updated since the 1200 is this is no longer mesh. This is now plexi so you can actually see through the entire window. We've got anti-vibration mounts here for the side VGA fan. So that's pretty good. Let's go ahead and put that in there. There we go and let's see if we can figure out how to open up these bays here. So first let's take this and do that. Oh. I wonder what this does. Does that unlock them? Not yet. Oh it does! It unlocks them. Oh there we go. Okay so all of the fleet release bays are locked by default. And then you just open them up just like that. I'm guessing they become a little bit easier to open as time goes on. But yeah. Fair. That's not that complicated. So now we have access to all of the fans. These are washable fan filters in here. 120mm fans. You can see these are Antec 3-speed fans. They are LED fans. So those are red LEDs on red fans with a black frame. So they look pretty cool when they're lit up. I'll make a point of actually lighting up this case at some point in the future so I can show it to you guys. The other thing that Antec is really touting as a cool feature on this case is the stepless fan control right here which is built in to all of the front fans. And here is the other really really cool one and this is fleet swap. So right back here you have to look inside the case. You can see that there are two. Only two? I thought there were more. Well there are two front SATA hot swaps that you can actually move to any two SATA ports that you want in the front. And there are actually four I lied. So you can move these around however you want. Actually cameraman if you want to come have a look at them from the inside. You can see that the screws right here can allow you to just remove these. They're made of plastic but fairly durable. And then you can just put them wherever you want. So you can configure it so that the hot swap bays are wherever you need them to be. They all use separate power and data cables so there's no port multiplier involved. There's no power routing from sort of one plug to multiple ports or anything like that. But it does give you a very flexible very modular interface for your drives. Very cool. Let's have a look at what we've got for front panel connectors here. Okay. Oh it's tied with two zip ties for extra added safety and security. Okay so for our front panel connectors we have a USB 3.0 which is intended to go around to the back of your motherboard. So that will give you front USB 3.0. Because the pin out is not yet decided for the USB 3.0 standard. So if you want a front USB 3.0 that's all you can really do is run it around to the back of the case. So then the next thing we've got is our front USB 2.0 reset switch. Another front USB 2.0. Then we have the front SATA which I will show you in a little bit more detail in a moment. We have power for the front. We have front HD audio. We have front AC97 audio should we so desire. We have a hard drive LED. And I'm going to go ahead and assume there's a power switch in there somewhere but I can't find it for the life of me. Power LED. Come on. Power switch. Okay we got this one, this one, this one. And power switch. Got it. So at the back there are two more 120mm fans. These match the color scheme of the 120mm in the front. So all in all, actually that's one of the probably the best values about this case is the fact that it comes with seven fans by default. All preloaded into the case. And they're all reasonably good quality fans too. These are all Antec Tri-Cools. I actually don't know if the ones up top are. Yeah, yeah those are Tri-Cools too. And so all of the ones at the back are controlled by switches at the back of the case. So if I can get the cameraman to come have a look at the back here. You can see that the rear fans are controlled by these switches. So they can be set to either low or high. And these are sliders. Ooh that's cool. So you can adjust them to whatever speed you want by the look of things. Although I could be wrong so don't quote me on that one. So it might just be low high. That one's kind of recessed but you can probably still hit it. The top ones are right here. So that controls all the fans at the back. Now one disadvantage is that if you want to replace the fans with something else. It might be a little tricky to get them to actually work this way. Here is our standard I.O. plate location. Then we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven expansion slots. So you're going to fit standard ATX motherboards. Here are two water cooling grommets. So if you wanted to mount a rear radiator or anything like that. You'd run the tubes through there. Then you've got your standard ATX power supply hole. And then you can also remove these four screws. And that allows you to mount a CPX power supply. Let's have a look around the back of the case. And see if we can find any interesting cable routing features or anything like that. Let me see. Camera man's pointing at something. I don't know what he's on about. He's pointing at the front. Five and a quarter inch base. Maybe he wants me to talk about the five and a quarter inch base. Oh I haven't forgotten that. Now he's pointing at something that I totally hadn't forgotten. He's trying to remind me of stuff that I know. Silly camera man. Tricks are for kids. Now he's shaking his head at me. That camera man guy. Him and his Mac. See he wouldn't use something like this because it's not an apple. He doesn't understand why this would be interesting. Here's your power supply. Okay, come back. So here's your power supply cable routing holes. You've got your power supply mounted in the bottom so you can run your 24 pin here. You run your 8 pin up here. You run whatever they're called power connectors. SATA up here for the optical drives. And then you can run any SATA cables you want over to your hard drives over here. And then you can also, oh you know what? This is something else that I should mention. I think that Antec's saying you can actually install another one of these if you don't want any optical drives. You can just have four fans in the front. So I don't know where you buy them but I think that you can. So that might be relevant. Here's the CPU cutout. Nice and big but without losing any sturdiness. You can see they've peeled back the metal here so that the edges are all rounded. I could rub my fingers on these all day and I would not get a cut. See I didn't get a cut. I was hoping I wouldn't get a cut. And then let's see. The last thing that I want to talk about is the 140mm fans on the top. Those look a little bit bigger than one. I think they're 140mm. Oh yeah they're 140mm. No I'm just crazy. These are 140mm fans. Tri-Cools also. They spin just like that. And then the last thing that I finally want to show you is... Let's actually use the hot swap bay. I'm just going to take a WD 1TB black hard drive and I'm going to plug it in. And then that is how long it takes to install a hard drive in the Dark Fleet 85. Once you've already plugged in the connectors at the back of the fleet swap modular interface things that you can move around. And finally the real last thing I want to show you because I lied last time. So here's the power cable that comes up from the power supply. And then here's a SATA cable that we plugged in in theory when we were installing our system. And you can plug in a SSD. Now I don't know that this is the most secure way to install an SSD in your system. But I will let you be the judge of that. The way that I see this being more useful is actually just if you store your data on just a regular 2.5 inch notebook hard drive. And you just want to sort of quickly plug it in instead of hauling out a USB cable or whatever. Then this would be a really easy way to plug that in. Or I mean hey if you wanted your SSD on display for the world. You know hey look at me look how cool I am. I have a 128 gig SSD yo. Then it's all clear so you can see the difference.