 Welcome to my unboxing of the Antec One. Now this is, yeah I know you were expecting me to say 100 after that or something right? No no no, this is just the Antec 25, no no no not the Antec 25. That's how many years Antec has been, well around. No the One is the model number, not the 25, no 100, the One. So what is the One all about? The One is all about an up to date feature set, good ventilation, sturdy construction, we hope. We're about to find out that for sure, although if it's Antec that's pretty much my expectation. Even on their value cases they really don't make anything flimsy. I mean look at this, they're still using double walled cardboard even for a value oriented case. Now they have opted for a hard foam versus a soft foam which is not my preferred way of doing things but given this is a more value case I think we can forgive them for it because nobody should be loading up 60 pounds worth of computer hardware in a case like this. This is more for, you need a basic system, you want it to be ATX compatible, so not MATX but you want something fairly small with good ventilation, etc. So here is the Antec, actually that's not bad. It looks kind of like the, it looks kind of like a more up to date 300. Actually we've got a 300 over there that's serving us quite well as our Tech Tips video editing machine. So I do personally believe in the 300, in fact that is the 300 that was part of the NCIX Tech Tips episode on thermal management where we took a crappy case and we swapped it out for the 300 in order to demonstrate how much cooler your PC can run if you have a case that is designed for optimal cooling. And there it is. Alright so let's start with the externals. We've got thumb screws securing the side panels. We have as I mentioned before ample ventilation. So here in the front we have a spot for our 120mm cooling fan. We also have 3 5 1⁄4 inch bays, your Antec logo, your just nice sleek lines, USB 3, bam, on a value case like this that is a great thing to see. Reset switch, power switch, headphones and microphone ports. Okay, we've got a 120mm cooling fan included in the top as well as a spot for what appears to be a 140mm fan on the side. Give me a sec, that might be 120. Sorry guys it was just the styling of the honeycomb mesh that confused me a little bit. That is for a 120mm fan. Almost all of the fans in this case are 120mm. You can see it uses this sort of punched out style of design. It still looks fairly sleek. You can see from the front it's very aerodynamic but from the back it's more wide and the reason for that is it gives you space for this fan here without interfering with your graphics card and gives you space for taller CPU coolers. So there's a very practical reason why they've done that. Alright oh yeah sorry I never finished on the back. So on the back we find an included I.O. shield. I haven't seen one of those in a while. Very nice. And I see it's not any more up to date than they used to be. There's your spot for your parallel port which is evidently labeled Venus for some reason. Sure whatever man. Okay and then we've got a 120 or 92 or 80mm fan in the back. Water cooling grommets which you're not very likely to use because you're probably going to get one of those integrated liquid cooling things like the 620 or the 920. Then you've got seven PCI slots, a bottom mounted power supply. Very nice to see. Antec is still not neglecting awesome features like bottom mounted power supplies even on a value case. And we move to the inside. So here is the one spot in the case where you can put a 140mm fan as a bottom intake. Using the feet on the bottom you can see it's lifted up a fair amount off the floor or table wherever you put it. There's also a fan filter that is removable here for your power supply intake fan. So you can have air coming in here, cooling your power supply and going directly out and air also coming in here to cool your graphics card or whatever else happens to be in this general vicinity. This is an invaluable include. You know I've always liked the word invaluable. Well hated it really because the word invaluable implies that it has no value but you say invaluable to mean very valuable so what's the deal Leo? Okay so here is your USB 3 to USB 2 adapter. So if you are putting together a value system that does not have a USB 3 header for those front USB 3 you can just hook them up as USB 2 with the included adapter. Thank you Antec. That is a very fantastic inclusion. Also got a piece of paper. Thank you for that as well. And then we have a large CPU cutout. So that's so you can install pretty much any cooler you want without actually removing the motherboard from the case. There's your 120mm fan, plugs in with a 3 pin header. Look at all these black cables. Antec's getting stylish. Look at that. Also black cables for that guy. So the only cooling that is included with the case is the top and the back but you can still install as I mentioned before here, here and on the side panel in order to get additional cooling. Now how does this work? Fascinating. You know what I'll be back in a moment. Now as a test of how easy their tool-less drive configuration is to set up, there's the back panel by the way. Also got that bulge thing going on for additional room for cable management in this case. As a test of how easy their tool-less configuration is, I am going to figure it out on camera. The only thing I was doing off camera there was fetching myself some drives to install. So here we go. Okay. Hey, look at that. They're including drive rails with like a $60 case. That's fantastic. Alright. Now we're going to put these here presumably. Okay. And then we're going to put these here presumably. Bam. Let's do one more just to show how quickly we can do it now that we are seasoned veterans at installing this particular tool-less drive system. And bam. Love it. So from the front, it looks like this. Got like, you know, some cool honeycomby ventilation-y looking thing going on. From the back, you can see it's riveted in. Okay. Should be quite strong. That's been a problem with some cheaper cases in shipping with hard drives. This one, you shouldn't have that issue, although I feel a little bit better if you could screw them in. But I guess they're not really going anywhere once you have a side panel closed on this side. This is interesting. So this is like a big like rubber thing going on. So I guess that... Oh, fascinating. So they've put this in in order to keep the motherboard tray, because you see they cut out so much of it for that enlarged CPU cooler, they wanted to reinforce it in some way. So once you put a motherboard on here, it's not going this way, but in order to keep it from flexing, they've got this rigiding it up. I know rigiding isn't a word, but making it more rigid during shipping or whatever else. Oh, that's cool. Oh, we've got lots of cable management tie-down places here. You can run your 8-pin up here. You run your 24-pin through the nice big one here. That can also go to your optical drives with your tool list. More cable management hooks. And you can accept up to one, two, three, four, five 3.5-inch drives. And there's an SSD mounting spot down here at the bottom. So you just screw those up from the bottom there and install your SSD. I think that pretty much... Oh, no, the included internal connectors. Sorry, guys. That was close. And... Boom. Wait, this parrot wouldn't boom if you put 4 million volts through it. HD audio, USB 3, which as you may recall can be converted, power LED, hard drive LED, power switch, and reset switch. There are all your included cables. You should probably route them through here and then take them to wherever they need to go, which is probably here. Coil those up nice and tight. Get them all running through the cable management loops at the back. And it should look a little something like that, but better. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the N-TECH ONE. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews. And there's the tool list 5-1⁄4-inch mechanism and other computer videos. Sorry, guys. I realized I never showed you how to install the 120-mil fan in the front. So it comes with included screws. See those two longer ones? So there's two bumps, two screws, bam. 120-millimeter fan goes there, and that's what it looks like from the inside. It's easy to get off. You just try not to drop the case while you do that. And then if you want to take it off, you just pull on it like that. No problem.