Anybody gone beyond the 3 stock blue fans in their setup? I want mine to look nice but not to flashy. Maybe a flux capacitor would look nice in there or somethin. I just need some ideas


Also, what do I need to buy to keep my cable management clean?

First build, Im excited and kinda freaking out. Im not worried about setting anything up except I dont want a cluttered case. I got the Antec Neopower 650 because it has blue lights that match the case, its a solid antec supply and its modular.

You need a modular PSU and I agree... the NeoPower 650 is very sexy and you'll be happy with that, it's an incredible unit. The Antec 900 has 2 optional 120mm fan slots, one is one of the drive cages and the other is one the side window, I'm going out tomorrow to buy two 120mm Thermaltake Thunderblades for those two to improve my graphics card cooling even more.

Don't be so stressed, the Antec Nine Hundred is a killer case and so is the PSU you bought, I'm happy you got those two I've got the Nine Hundred and a NeoHE 500W (The little brother of the NeoPower Blue) and I couldn't be happier.

EDIT: I might even try to get a pic tomorrow night after I'm done setting the new fans... hopefully they'll have some blue LED ones left.

Thanks man that would really cool to get some pics.

Oh yeah I lied about this being my first build, my first build I tried to use a 230 watt power supply out of an old computer I found layin around and it didnt go so well and I didnt realize the problem at the time.

Hopefully 650 watts will be enough, Im gonna get the Q6600, 4 gigs of ram, an 8800GT and only 1 hard drive and eventually 2 optical drives (once the blu-ray hd-dvd combo drives are dirt cheap)

ill show you some pics with mine when im done, im doing a blue and red color combo.... did it for a friend in a cheapy build one time and it looked pretty tight, my only prob is that everything "uv red" is orange, so im doing a bunch of custom led configs for it

my next step is homebuild case =)

I just recently posted my new system build with the Antec 900. The 900 has precut holes that make cable routing very easy. Nothing crazy needed to make it look clean = )

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] lped-build

Here are some of the pics:

Don't worry that is a TRUE 650W unit, not the kind of **** that Cooler Master (or other cheap manufacturers) sells. I'm powering 1 HDD, 8800GTS (So a lot more power consumed), 2 sticks of DDR2, and an E6400... oh yeah also soon an X-Fi and I still got lots of power to spare, so you'll be perfectly fine.

Looks like the Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 there in the picture. Just got 2 of them for $40 for my son's computer upgrade for Chritsmas

Question:

Will SataII hard-drives fit behind the internal fan bays with a fan installed? I've seen images with this case without the fan bays, and it just seems that hard-drives won't fit when using the internal fan bays. As seen on the right side of the below image. Are there hard-drives behind those internal fan bays?

well if you look closely the harddrive is right between both fans, and if you read wireless fenders page, he can only use 1 hd because the fans are in the way, and usually antec 900 cases only come with 1 of those types of fan holders, but like he said he had an extra

No, hard drives will not fit in the bays with the fan there. Since I only have one hard drive I did it that way but I will eventually need a second so I'll have to do away withone of the spare fans and put the HDD's there.

wirelessfender, did you lap your Q6600 or Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme?

Does 120X need lapping? From what I hear, sometimes the base comes quite convex.

it was noticably convex but my cpu is concave. I think Most Cpu's are concave too. And No I didnt Lap my 120X but I plan to someday whenever I get around to it.

This is my Nine Hundred off:

My Nine Hundred opened (off):

My Nine Hundred opened (on):

My Nine Hundred on: