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An Inside-Out Look At the Antec Skeleton Case

Posted by timothy on from the subverting-the-dominant-paradigm dept.

Anonymous writes "Here's a step-by-step look at building a PC with the new Antec Skeleton PC chassis. It's obviously not for everybody, but at least Antec is trying out something relatively new for hard-core users. Not sure if you'd need an air spray can to keep the dust off all the components, though ..."

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  1. I don't get it by esocid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't the point of an enclosure to maximize airflow to specific heat generating hardware, and to keep out dust and hair, to make sure those pricy pieces of hardware aren't exposed? I like my protective aluminum mid-tower. Plus I've moved three times so far and all I had to do was pack it up with everything else. I'd imagine you'd have to protect this some other way.

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  2. Hmmm by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nice case, interesting idea, love Antec and use their products, but at $180, no way. I can almost build an entire PC for that.

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    1. Re:Hmmm by Kamots · · Score: 3, Insightful

      On the issue of power supplies, I used to like getting a PSU with my cheapo case.

      Then I learned more about PSUs.

      Now, I refuse to buy any supply that I haven't seen tested by hardocp or one of the other review sites that does professional level power quality analysis. There are a lot of power supplies being sold that make downright fradulent claims... or don't even provide power that comes close to falling within the ATX spec. Meaning that 6 months down the line you may well find yourself with screwy random hardware failures... or a power supply that blows out all your hardware. (They've lost more than one piece of test equipment when they dared to run a PSU at it's claimed capability)

      I'd much rather buy a case without a supply than get some pos that's going in the trash as I don't dare hook it up to any of my equipment.

      And I save money on electricity as the PSUs that provide solid quality power tend to run really high effeciencies as well. :P (80%+ instead of 70% adds up over the course of a year)

  3. Gee, Lets use the EM spectum... by nweaver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gee, lets use the EM spectrum as a massive garbage dump for high-frequencey EM waste.

    Seriously, folks. Computers NEED shielding to keep their em garbage from causing massive interference to everything else in the room.

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    1. Re:Gee, Lets use the EM spectum... by geekoid · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Have you measures a modern PC? it's not that bad.
      SHeeesh.

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