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Antec 300 - Did some work for my brother in law

lsv

lsv

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Hey all,

I've slowly been upgrading my brother in law's computer over the years, recently I gave him my old Logitech G11 and also my Asus 5750 to replace his aging and extremely loud HID 3870. I also got him a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ and the Antec 300 his rig is in. He only plays Eve and a little bit of Skyrim (at 720p/medium).

His rig is; Anthlon 64 5200+, 2gigs DDR2 667, 1TB WD Caviar Black and Asus 5750.

In any case I had a lot of fun working in the 300, I forgot just how nice of a job Antec did on this fairly cheap case. The cable management isn't the best but if you take a look at the side/rear shot you can see everything I've shoved in that little nook.

I have changed his previous setup which was;
120mm intake (side) 120mm exhaust (rear) and 140mm exhaust (top)

To this;
2x Fractal Design 120mm intakes (front) and 1x Noctua NF-P12 (with LN adapter) all attached to a spare Corsair fan controller from a 650D set to low. I've also covered the side intake with some spare dampening foam I have which I screwed through and into a spare 120mm fan to hold it in place, stopping a little bit of sound leaking out the side.

Temps after 1 hour Prime95 + Furmark; 45c CPU, 64c GFX. Not too quiet when cranked but not bad for a non-dampened case. The loudest thing in there are the intake fans, which are not dampened and do make noise even on low via the front grill/dust filter.

All in all I'm happy with the work I did for him. I believe I am turning into a silencing maniac lately, I'll be posting in a bit as I transfer my mom's P3 into a Bitfenix Outlaw from her dated 2000's beige OEM case and will give some basic feedback on the Outlaw. I'm excited to work on the flipped upside down case
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Pics!

Side
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Front
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Back
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Jimmy Rigged Sound dampening on the side vent
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VirtualLarry said:
Wierd. Your Antec 300 has a motherboard backplate cutout? Mine do not.

Are you certain that's a 300? And not a 100?
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Hey you're right, just checked reviews online and no one shows a back plate in their pics. Interesting. It's def a 300 though.
 
There's two versions of the 300 out there. The illusion and the non illusion one. The illusion come with the blue led fans.

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T_Yamamoto said:
There's two versions of the 300 out there. The illusion and the non illusion one. The illusion come with the blue led fans.

Sent from Galaxy Nexus (4G/LTE)
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Ah thanks, Yamamoto. As far as I know the Antec fans it came with do not have LEDs in the stock fans so I'm assuming it's a non illusion version.
 
lehtv said:
Newegg's 300 does have the motherboard tray cutout. Just see the product pics
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Just texted him to send me a picture of the front, it's a 300. Maybe Antec put the tray from another case in there?

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Antec 300 from GIS
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My Antec 300 has the cutout. So does my Antec 600 which the older revs had a smaller cutout.
 
Huh. I think I got my Antec 300s like two, perhaps more, years ago, so mine don't have the cutout. Think I can charge exorbitant prices for it on FS/FT, because it's so rare now? 🙂
 
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