Antec Nine Hundred Two: Second Generation Gamer Case

Installing the Components

We didn't have quite as much space in this case as we did with the previously tested Silverstone Raven, although the two cases don't really compete directly for the same audience. We did like the hard drive cages, which provide plenty of extra room for airflow and improved hard drive cooling. The drawback of course is that you can only fit a maximum of nine hard drives -- or six without an extra hard drive cage -- into the case.

We almost always encounter some difficulties when installing our test components into Antec cases, and this is no exception. The big problem is that our 8800 Ultra graphics cards are simply too long. It's not possible to use these particular graphics cards while also populating all six hard drive bays. With the graphics cards in place, we were unable to get the hard drive cage back where it belongs. It ended up sticking out 1 cm at the front, and that's before we even tried to attach cables. With large graphics cards, it's very likely that you will need to avoid using the middle hard drive cage. In fact, we also couldn't use the top drive location for the bottom drive cage. One alternative if you don't need to have more than one optical drive is to move the middle hard drive cage up a couple notches. As it stands, with 380 800 Ultra graphics cards and no change in the positioning of the drive cages, we were only able to use two hard drives.