Well, I've had this case for about 2 months now, and after giving a few pointers, decided I'd re-write it into a full blown review. Here she be!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129021
Use the photos here to understand my poor explanations...
Looks:
With cases having windows being very popular with today's crowd, you are sure to run into some that are way overdone. Fortunately, the Antec Nine Hundred keeps it relatively simple.
The whole side panel "viewing area" is basically a rectangle, but divided into 2 chevron-esque parts. One part is just your standard window, and the smaller part is grilled, but a bit more on that later. The front is entirely perforated in order to accomodate the 2 120mm blue LED Antec TriCool fans that pull in air for this beast. Of course there is the Big Boy fan on top, which is Antec's new 200mm TriCool fan that adds a look that says "I mean business." There is a little tray on the top, and normally I might put this in the "functionality" section, but realistically it isn't a selling point. You can hold a digital camera as it is plugged in, or something similar, seeing as the I/O is right in front of that tray.
Building:
For some, this case might seem a little smaller than they thought. There are some relatively non-mainstram features here, so if you go and build in it, you may find a little bit of adjustment is needed. First off, your power supply will be bottom-mounted. Some find this to be a curse, others a stroke of genius. The plus side to that bottom mount is that is improves your airflow situation dramatically provided you have a power supply with an intake fan on it, and it doesn't create that common hotspot that many top-mounted builds do. The downside is that, for most motherboard configurations, it makes wire management a little trickier, especially if your cables aren't all that long.
The HDD cages (there are 2, with capacity for 3 HDDs each) have those blue LED fans I mentioned earlier in the front for HDD cooling, and coincidentally feed air to your power supply and VGA solution. If you want to change out the fans or put in the HDDs, the cages do come out, but you'll need to take both side panels off to get at the thumbscrews. Attached to the top HDD cage is an empty 120mm fan mount. This mount is removeable (obviously at the expense of cooling expansion), but if you decide to keep it in, there are 2 immediate things that you may need to contend with. Placing a fan in there will negate the use of that cage for additional HDDs, limiting you to the bottom cage only. The other limitation is for those of you with long video cards. It can get very tight in there unless that fan mount is removed, so consider that before building...you may find yourself balancing between cooling options and huge video cards/additional HDDs. My last word on these cages: they are not tool-less. It isn't really a big deal, since tool-less designs have the possibilty of being flimsy anways, but be prepared to break out the 'ol screwdriver.
Cooling:
We have already seen some of the cooling options in the last sections, but let's be honest. This case was built for cooling. We have our 2 120mm fans in front, the rear 120mm for exhaust, the 200mm on top for exhaust, with the option of a 120mm in the side (this is that grilled part...it has a fan mount on it for extra VGA cooling goodness) and you can add
another 120mm fan to the back end of that top HDD cage, making the famous wind tunnel. Including the power supply exhaust fan, that makes for 7 fans total, all well placed in good locations to optimize airflow. All of the included fans, as mentioned above, are TriCool, but the fan controls are all inside the case, meaning you need to take the side panel off in order to get at them. Some people have converted the case for water cooling, so we know it is possible, but expect it to be tight.
Funtionality:
The I/O section is loaded with your standard stuff, with a nice little FireWire port for you video camera toting folk. In all, it includes 2xUSB, 1xFireWire, Power, Reset, HDD act. light, speaker/headphone jack and a mic jack. It is all top mounted, so it's nice and handy for you folk who leave your prized computer on the floor (not reccomended, considering the amount of air this thing will pull in), but at the same time, it isn't really a pain for me, and I have it sitting on a desk. The case as a whole isn't all that difficult to work with. Earlier versions had a clearance issue with a VGA adapter being placed in the top slot, but that has since been rectified. It is a big case, but it won't dominate an entire desk, if thats what you're looking for.
Final thoughts:
I really like this case. It doesn't really dish out any punishment as far as build time and difficulty, but it might make you work a little harder than some others depending on your parts. The looks aren't very tacky, yet they retain a high cool-factor. It is a fairly sturdy case, with the exception of the side panel (pretty thin...but you shouldn't be throwing that around anyways lest you scratch your pretty window). But most of all...it is cold in there.
Feel free to PM me if I missed something or if you have any questions! First real review.