Antec New Solution NSK3480 Black/ Silver Computer Case

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I've been constructing computers because 1997. I just utilised this situation in an i3-530 construct and every thing went fine. Wonderful create top quality on the situation, nice clean rolled edges everywhere. Well finished inside and outside. Looks handsome and fits in some tight vertical spaces. Extremely sturdy feeling, not an ounce of "cheap" anywhere. Could use an update from it's five+ year old design...Cable passthru from the back side of the situation would be good to hold items neat and tidy. CPU back plate hole in the motherboard tray would be excellent also. Front panel 1394 need to be updated to USB 3. or eSATA.Fits a lot of stuff in a genuinely tiny space - strategy ahead through your develop to hold points sane. I deleted an optical drive because I couldn't get 1 to fit - I use an external USB drive that I share with my netbook for the odd occasion that I want it.Overall height is great but an added inch or two of depth would be most appreciated to resolve the upper bay issues. The original situation (NSK 3300) had a smaller mATX PSU and this optical drives fit just fine. A great situation! Was a 5 star situation five years ago, now it's four stars mainly because it lacks some far more modern characteristics. mATX employed to be low end, but with practically almost everything becoming "on board" now a lot of mid to high finish machines and individuals are going mATX for their rigs. With a handful of updates this would be the go to case for that group.

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No flimsy steel, this is a quite solid and sturdy case. Little and Sleek, I truly like this case. You have to open up the top of the situation to access the power provide and 4.25" drive bays. Routing the power and drive cables by way of the situation was a bit tough due to a partition in the situation. I wouldn't advise making use of IDE optical drives. It's a little tight to operate in, but the little form aspect is why I bought the situation in the 1st spot...

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Nice seeking situation. Nicely built, as you would count on from Antec. Place of vents make it putting it on carpet no challenge. Power provide has ample power cables, and the case delivers many tie-downs for them. No Computer speaker for hearing motherboard error codes. Mainly because of its size, it is not the easiest case to work in. There's no fantastic location for a tricky drive: It's tough to connect each a challenging drive and an optical drive in the upper chamber, but in the lower chamber, a tricky drive will block a single of your expansion slots. If you go in aware of its limitations, this is a excellent situation.

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Exceptional construction, very solid and compact. Doesn't vibrate due to flimsy construction, a frequent problem with numerous cases. Can take ATX power supplies if desired. The power supply has an excessive amount of cables, and it becomes difficult (nigh impossible) to marshal all of them. Drives that make use of flat cables will have trouble fitting. Restricted space for hard drives. No situation mountings for hard drives; they sit on leading of rubber seatings. Positioning of the vent on the best potentially contributes to a lot more noise. Included TriCool 120mm fan can be a small noisy. The power LED and difficult drive activity LEDs are sort of bright, you may well want to contemplate not connecting them. There are a lot of cables for the front panel stuff, and that combined with the excessive cables from the included PSU could interfere with airflow. I know I put a lot of cons, but this is nonetheless an superb case. It could turn out to be a excellent situation if the shortcomings had been resolved -- speaking to you, Antec!

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Read my initially comment Read my very first comment A fast solution to their wiring issue is to basically rotate the power supply 180 degrees. It worked for me.

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Solid case, fantastic searching tooEfficient power supplyExceptional airflow managementSituation switches and lights properly documentedFits Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H mobo perfectly HD either uses one particular of the two 5.25" drive bays or blocks a PCI slotLegacy optical drives over 7 inch deep might be crowded . . . (LG SATA DVD drive fits with space to spare) Excess power provide cables fit neatly in or under the floppy drive bay (pulled out of the HD/power provide bay, which is otherwise really crowded).

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Good blend of attributes, for a mATX situation. I wanted front Firewire, USB and a headphone jack so this case was the very best I could find. Relatively quiet, smallish size but not so modest that you can't fit something inside. Looks typical enough for the wife to tolerate it. Metal feels solid. My last two circumstances have been Antecs and I will continue to use them. Best compartment with the 5.25" drive bays and power provide doesn't have as much ventilation as I would like so I moved my hdd down into the main part of the case. *Note, the pictures show the rings about the front audio jacks to be color coded pink and green. On my unit they had been each silver. It really looks better this way. So I am pleased.

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Size - extremely compact but as others have noted this can be a con also. Size is ok if you want to make your create and leave it alone - "set it and forget it". But if you like to continually upgrade or mod your machine look elsewhere. Incredibly tight fit you will endure the hassle of a single time but will not want to repeat. Incredibly tight fit acquiring the optical tough drive in. Access to the challenging drive in the best portion of the situation calls for removal of the optical drive. More than a single hard drive becomes a discomfort, a second can be mounted on the bottom of the situation, any additional and you will have to configure your personal drive mounting. Just adding about a single inch in length to this case would make it significantly simpler to operate with. Lower finish Antec power supplies can be hit or miss, verify out their Neo line on Google.

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Quiet, little design with sturdy sturdy construction. Cable/PSU bay at top rated of case isn't created to hold two x five 1ǚ" drives and cables as nicely. This is a case I will be purchasing once again for the subsequent desktop I construct. Overall an certainly excellent purchase.

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Tiny size, good ventilation, thermally separated PSU region. Thick Cold Rolled Steel. 120mm exhaust fan, even 2x 92mm intake fans if you really require it. This situation has it all. Possibly the stock case fan?I usually replace stock situation fans w/ good quality ones anyhow, so this isn't seriously a con for me. I've owned this case for over a year now. Hands down the finest mAtx case on the market place today.

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Quite nice searching and quiet. Compact. Comes with a 380 watt antec PS. Strudy with no sharp edges. I am extremely pleased with it. Would make a fantastic media pc case. Runs incredibly quiet. The back 120mm fan has three settings to fit your cooling/noise level desires. It is small so you are not going to put alot in it but hey that is why I bought it. The top rated compartment for the optical drives is tight particularly with all the power wires but I only applied 1 drive. I consider you would actually have a hard time fitting two drives in this case. I think this is an great case for someone wanting a tiny case to place a mid to low range method in. I would not recommend it for gaming simply because you would have to obtain another PS and the leading compartment is so tiny. You would also have difficulty with a extremely significant GFX card.

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Small form factor; not also deep, not too tall, a little wide but that's okay. Super silent! PSU and 120mm case fan produce next to nothing at all in terms of noise. All I can hear are the HDDs chuggin. Noise reducing grommets for mounting the HDDs. Strong construction! Heavier than I expected. DVD drive was forced into spot due to the energy connector riding up on the PSU cables. I will be looking into receiving a shorter optical drive. Energy and HDD LEDs didn't come on, may possibly be a mobo concern. Can fit ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler if you eliminate the fan shroud from door. May well be acquiring a new DVD Burner and situation fans for the front.

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-Great Modest situation-Separate PS/Optical Drive Compartment-Cost (remember it contains a ~โ PS)-Decent PS - 380W, 80%+-Sturdy construction - this situation is HEAVY-Plenty of space behind Mobo wall and side of the situation for tucking wires away if you cut some holes in the walls.-Slot in front of PS for routing information wires up to optical drive/HDD* -PS Fan is a bit loud-Connector spacing on power wires makes tiny sense - at least give us a setup that matches the case-Included 3 speed fan demands use of a Molex connector-Challenging drive mounting selectionsɅ. Beneath major/top optical drive - offers you no exactly where hidden to location wirestwo. Bottom of case - kills/limits use of the bottom expansion slot on most(all?) boards.-2x92mm front fan mounts - I'd rather have a single 120-Non EPS PS - only a 2x2 for CPU energy-Lights on front of case can be obscenely bright - even with it in a bedroom closet with the door open*-Slot for data wires can't really fit a 20ቴ pin energy connector through it (would make for a cleaner install). I would genuinely like it if they supplied this case w/o PS - let me install a modular PS, and have the situation price much less so I won't really feel very so bad about poking holes in it for wire routing.That stated - this is by far, the best mATX desktop situation I've seen for when space is at a premium - great and shallow - great for sitting on a shelf.

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Placing the motherboard in went precisely as planned. Had no problems hooking up wires from case to motherboard. I know men and women speak about a "tight fit" for the 5.25" bay. Bottom line for me is that is IMPOSSIBLE. I saw someone reference a SATA power connector at 6" and 18"... but my initially connector is only about 2" from the energy provide, producing it impossible to attach to the DVD. At all. No matter how significantly I squeeze it in.Possibly it's defective. If I had a connector that WAS 6" away, I may be in a position to use the drive. But it's not. And I can't.So I'm purchasing a new case. It boggles my mind that regardless of how modest a case is, it's essentially Designed to make putting in a normal DVD drive practically impossible. There must be NO "if you squeeze it in up more than the cables"It's a poor style. Poor implementation. And a waste of money.

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Sturdy, solid massive uATX case. Very heavy for a uATX case.2x4-pin CPU energy, 1x6-pin PCI-E energy cable. Quiuet. It is hard to manage the cables when the HDD is installed in 5.25'' bay. It is doable but tricky. Case is heavy which will stop my youngsters from knocking it more than. The case fan is quiet. CPU fan can only be heard now

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Good case, strong construction, quiet, efficient PSU I preferred the older NSK3300 which the NSK3480 is replacing. The PSU in the NSK3480 is full size, it's not straightforward to cram all the cables beneath, even though the 3300 did not have that challenge, while still possessing a extremely effective PSU. The PSU wouldn't energy up my motherboard. I figured it was DOA due to the fact trying yet another PSU did energy it up just fine.

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This is 1 of my preferred micro instances, incredibly solid and made of heavyweight materials. Power supply is sufficient for most common computer use. Snagged it ุ off, created it worth even though. Rear 120mm case fan dead on arrival, does not turn on at all. Doesn't Antec test these issues prior to they install them inside the case? Entirely ridiculous, and not worth getting to return the case or the fan. Why?

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Good Packaging, Solid construct. Deep case for significant tower heat sinks. This is the very first case that I really hate. It has so many poor engineering designs. 1. The front panel cables are extended adequate for a full tower case so you have bundle those up someplace. 2. The lower difficult has to be fasten from below the case. three. No wire management. 4 The power supply is also large for the case which makes trying to install a challenging drive and DVD drive really challenging. The DVD RW I had was to extended to fit, it stuck out the front of the case 1ǘ ". Even with a short a single I found it nonetheless smashes up against the power supply. I got this case thinking that it was major enough so it would be an straightforward install. NOT!! I have built 50 plus laptop or computer and worked on hundreds a lot more and this case is the 1st a single I hate. It really should have taken me 30 minutes to make this pc, I spent at least 3 hours messing with it. In no way once again!

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Silent-Don't even know it's turned on, had to connect the case LED's to be certain. Modest- compact size tends to make for portability. Good airflow- power supply is isolated from other elements, heat is allowed to escape out of top vent. The 120mm fan aids pull hot air out of the case silently. Had a single or two power provide cables that had been not needed. The difficult drive place at the bottom of the case will eat up a single or two pci slots. This wasn't an concern due to the fact I am working with only one particular hard drive and it's in the 5.25" drive bay. Extremely fantastic airflow, Incredibly silent, brilliant case. Looks excellent too, like the black color. E7200 + 8800GT runs fine. Most likely will be getting one more one particular soon considering that newegg just lowered the value!

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Antec tends to make solid circumstances. This is no exception. This is my 4th antec case, but I've in no way dealt with such a little case ahead of. First timers ought to stay clear. Skilled builders must be cautious if they intend to consist of an optical drive or a 2nd internal difficult drive.-I took a point off for PSU compatibility. It's a microATX case, but it holds a normal ATX PSU. Maybe newegg is much more to blame as this isn't clear from the product specs. tisk tisk-I took a second point off for the cramped PSU space. It's virtually impossible to fit your PSU, optical drive, and 2nd HDD in the power supply chamber. I gave up and switched to a microATX PSU. It will be less difficult for me to style a mounting adapter plate for the smaller sized PSU than attempting to squeeze almost everything about the regular ATX PSU.-I took a third point off for the bloody gash in my hand incurred although attempting to squeeze anything in such smaller spaces. I didn't really feel the slice, suggesting some really sharp piece of metal. be cautious. i assume i need to have a handful of stitches. Not for initially time builders. If you know what you're performing, don't count on this to be simple unless you go with a microATX PSU with adapter plate.

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My objective was to construct a spending budget program and I wanted a case that was tiny, quiet, and looked good. Well this case does exactly that. With the fan on the lowest setting it's SUPER quiet! I have this pc 3 feet from my head and I have no issues falling asleep with it on. The 120mm fan is good and you have space for 2 far more fans in the front, every thing stays nice and cool. I'm only operating 1 HDD and 1 DVD player, so getting them both in their personal compartment is ideal, tends to make the case seem bigger than it is! No matters at all other than routing wires and obtaining points to fit was sort of a discomfort lol, but that is to be expected with a smaller case. This case may well be little, but when you get every thing all tidy it's worth it.

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Quiet PSU and 120mm fan. Tiny case. If you've only utilised ATX situations or larger circumstances in the past, you'll be pleased. Soft mounts for the tough drive(s). Not an excessive quantity of worthless side panel vents noticed on most ATX situations these days. My most significant gripe about this case is that there's practically no hassle-free cable routing. Antec could have created this a much greater case by allowing cables to be routed behind the motherboard tray. Hooking up a hard drive and optical drive in the leading compartment is hard because you require to stash a lot of extra power cable in the compartment with the drives and there's extremely small space.Lack of challenging drive mounting space. If you're conscious of this limitation, then it's not a con at all.The case's best vent doesn't make a lot of sense to me if isolated airflow via the drive & PSU chamber is a aim. Good case for a desktop method exactly where you'll typically have just 1 difficult drive and possibly a video card. The 'squat' appear is due to the wide body necessary for accommodating a 120mm fan. No acquiring about it if you want the quieter substantial fan.

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The separate compartment for the power supply keeps the computer system quiet and cool. The stock cooling is sufficient and quiet. Removing the best and sides of the case is straightforward and swift. The power supply is included and is 80 plus certfied In order to connect the power provide to the motherboard it is needed to eliminate it and turn it over. I learned about this certain problem by reading a assessment on Silent Pc Assessment. If you are thinking about this case, their critique will help. I looked at a quantity of cases and this one seemed the very best combination of size, efficiency, quietness, and value.

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Good modest size, quiet with rear fan on low, appealing and simple. Effortless make, headers labeled correctly, anything in it's place would rather have a modular power supply... would ease cable management. Full size blu-ray was a tight fit next to the cabling... would advocate a right angle SATA cable Almost perfect modest box for a non-gaming machine. I mounted my Adata SSD in the floppy slot with adapter. Other drive mounts are bottom mount three.five, so be conscious.

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- Looks good, nice fit and finish- Properly built inside and out- Easy to mod if you're into that sort of factor- Lots of cooling - 1 120mm fan on back and mounting alternative for two 92mm fans at front of case- Really good challenging drive mounts- Nice side and leading panel are less complicated to add/remove than usual designs.- Best panel is nicely vented - None considerable, but here are some minor points:- Not designed for PSU's that have the usual leading or bottom mounted fan. Works far better with PSU's that have the much less-usual rear mounted fan. But the leading cover is ventilated, so a best-fan PSU would nevertheless work here but it's airflow would be a lot more restricted.- PSU area is sealed off from motherboard location. PSU fan will not be in a position to aid move air from the motherboard area to outside the case. I feel this is a design oversight, it would not be challenging to add a PSU vent hole below the PSU. This would fix the above two problems.- It would be nice if there had been much more options for finding cables in/out of the top drive bay region.- Front panel a small difficult to get rid of - Probably the smallest mATX case you can get without having producing some comprises, e.g. proprietary power provide, blocked SATA ports, cooling complications, and so on.- Unusual hard drive mount on bottom panel of case