SirFooK'nG
Executive Member
In my years I have assembled many PC's, various brand Cases and sizes.... Today was without a doubt the longest assemble I have ever had to endure 
My wife has an i5 2500k, 4 gig OCZ 1333 (5-5-5 CAS), Ati eyefinity HD 6870 2gb, with all the bells and whistles... (razer game pad, 1 X 23" 3D LED sammy + 1 X 24" Sammy LCD, Megladons, Rat 7). But she had a crappy no name brand case, which had seen better days. So she asked for a new one...
Now me, I'm a die hard Cooler Master fanboi when it comes to Cases, and I tried very (extremely frakin) hard to convince her to go for one.... but noooooo. She liked the Antec 1200 V3. So I caved in, got her one, and chucked the newer HD 7870 in as a bit of an "I love you" surprise. Get home, Strip her dust ridden cob webbed, sorry asssed excuse down. Cleaning everything meticulously (had to completely strip the Cooler Master V6GT CPU cooler to get the caked shyte out of it).
So now, I start reassembling in the new case... instructions? wtf are those? I suppose the guys at antec probably reckon nobody RTFM's any more so bugger it, why waste the paper and print?!? Right, lets figure out the HDD bays. There are banks of them, grouped in rows of 3. Each bank consisting of 3 rows has to be unscrewed and slid out from the front as a complete unit. You then use the longest screws have ever seen in a PC case to secure the HDD's in place, slide the bank back in and screw it in place... (let me remind you - No Instruction Manual). The CD drive was pretty simple in comparison, but the front pieces do not clip out, you guessed it correct... more screws....
Ok done with that, Mobo is in place, thats about the only stock easy thing on this build! But wait .... This case is enormous! Well to me it is and I have a Cooler Master HAF 922. The freaking power supply at the bottom (where imo they should always be) is miles away from the mobo and DVD drives.... the Power cables barely reach the DVD drives. The 4 pin molex on the mobo... eish, she no reach! not by a long shot ?!?! And we are using a Gigabyte Odin 585W in this, pretty decent supply, been faithful all the time. So ffs, its now 8PM, and the wife is biting at my ears "I have a Clanny, wheres my effin PC?" I had to go strip cable (luckily I had some spare 3 core) cut the molex & extend the cabling.
Jeeves, I started at 5 on the damn PC, and finished at 9.... Holy Cow! Never again will I even look sideways at Antec Cases.
\rant off ...
Edit: Found this on their website http://www.antec.com/pdf/manuals/Twelve%20Hundred%20V3%20manual_EN.pdf
My wife has an i5 2500k, 4 gig OCZ 1333 (5-5-5 CAS), Ati eyefinity HD 6870 2gb, with all the bells and whistles... (razer game pad, 1 X 23" 3D LED sammy + 1 X 24" Sammy LCD, Megladons, Rat 7). But she had a crappy no name brand case, which had seen better days. So she asked for a new one...
Now me, I'm a die hard Cooler Master fanboi when it comes to Cases, and I tried very (extremely frakin) hard to convince her to go for one.... but noooooo. She liked the Antec 1200 V3. So I caved in, got her one, and chucked the newer HD 7870 in as a bit of an "I love you" surprise. Get home, Strip her dust ridden cob webbed, sorry asssed excuse down. Cleaning everything meticulously (had to completely strip the Cooler Master V6GT CPU cooler to get the caked shyte out of it).
So now, I start reassembling in the new case... instructions? wtf are those? I suppose the guys at antec probably reckon nobody RTFM's any more so bugger it, why waste the paper and print?!? Right, lets figure out the HDD bays. There are banks of them, grouped in rows of 3. Each bank consisting of 3 rows has to be unscrewed and slid out from the front as a complete unit. You then use the longest screws have ever seen in a PC case to secure the HDD's in place, slide the bank back in and screw it in place... (let me remind you - No Instruction Manual). The CD drive was pretty simple in comparison, but the front pieces do not clip out, you guessed it correct... more screws....
Ok done with that, Mobo is in place, thats about the only stock easy thing on this build! But wait .... This case is enormous! Well to me it is and I have a Cooler Master HAF 922. The freaking power supply at the bottom (where imo they should always be) is miles away from the mobo and DVD drives.... the Power cables barely reach the DVD drives. The 4 pin molex on the mobo... eish, she no reach! not by a long shot ?!?! And we are using a Gigabyte Odin 585W in this, pretty decent supply, been faithful all the time. So ffs, its now 8PM, and the wife is biting at my ears "I have a Clanny, wheres my effin PC?" I had to go strip cable (luckily I had some spare 3 core) cut the molex & extend the cabling.
Jeeves, I started at 5 on the damn PC, and finished at 9.... Holy Cow! Never again will I even look sideways at Antec Cases.
\rant off ...
Edit: Found this on their website http://www.antec.com/pdf/manuals/Twelve%20Hundred%20V3%20manual_EN.pdf
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