Antec 900 & motherboard mounts

Anyone know if the Antec 900 has mobo standoffs included?

have you ever got a case without standoffs?

Come to think about it, no. I've only bought a few, but they all came with standoffs. But the Antec 900 was the only one in which they were already installed.

yeah cutting holes does wonders for cable management on this case.

there are some good idea's here

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=126395

I found reversing the hard drives clean it up quite a bit....but i did not cut all kinds of holes in it....

There were nine pre-installed standoffs in mine, however there were only seven screws that seemed to be for the standoffs, and only seven washers! Was it the same with your case(s)?

The PSU screws also fit, but I didn't put them in because there weren't any washers. So I've only got the mobo installed with seven screws. I hope it won't make any difference?

Thanks for the advice. I have built a few rigs before, but never had to cut holes in a case. I had to RMA my Asus M2N 832 SLI mobo. Continuous CMOS checksum error messages. Flashed the BIOS, reset the jumpers, changed the CMOS battery, tried different RAM all ng. My diagnosis was a a bad BIOS. Just waiting to get my mobo back. Asus has a great rep for being able to take a beating a still work fine.

Looking forward to essentially a fresh build. The pics on newegg really don't show any holes, other than one right where the PSU is mounted

I wish i had taken a picture when i built by friends computer....there are 2 holes near the hard drive slots....the screws for the hard drive are now long and so no more trying to get the screw in the small holes no more...there is also holes in the back for liquid cooling.....

I will try to find some pictures....

Sweet build. I'm not going to do water cooling any time soon. I know it is a lot of work to maintain, and if you need to work on your rig, everything has be drained. I think air will be good for me for now. Other things like the Monsoon, or the Chill It, or even Phase Change imo need to further development.

Are those CAT 5 clips attached to PSU & back of the case ?

They are 3/8" Locking Cable Clips that i picked up from walmart for like a $1.50.....they have a mounting hole and an adhesive back, they are pretty handy. As far as water cooling goes, Its really not that hard to maintain.....i used fluid xp+ coolant that is maintenance free and non-conductive. But if you ever need to do any serious work you do have to drain it unfortunately. I have built about 40+ computers and that was my first attempt at cable management and water cooling.....i know a lot of people are intimidated by water cooling and i was too but its really a lot easier than you would think.

Yea, you should def check out petrastechshop.com and jab-tech.com they have tons of w/c kits....i just recently got a quad core thats why i made the switch to water. I ordered a majority of my parts from those 2 sites. I was using the zalman 9700 before on my opty 165 in the antec 900 and it worked very well.