Antec GX700 Case Review: Just What You Can Get For $59.99
by Dustin Sklavos on January 17, 2013 10:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
- Antec
- ATX
Noise and Thermal Testing, Overclocked
Where I think the Antec GX700 is going to come out being a big winner is where old school enthusiasts will want to see it: the overclocked testbed. Remember that for a long time, overclocking wasn't about pushing the top end higher, it was about pushing the bottom end to the top and saving some coin in the process. Under those circumstances, spending $150 on a case is ridiculous if a $60 case can do the job.
With the GX700, I believe it can.
Thermals continue to be very competitive at either fan setting, with the high fan setting allowing the GX700 to hang with some of the best. Only Antec's Eleven Hundred can really do much better.
Fan speeds again remain very competitive.
As do noise levels, remarkably. It's only here that the silent cases can pull ahead at all, but Nanoxia's Deep Silence 1 does have to sacrifice some thermal performance to get here, and the Corsair Obsidian 550D runs hot. Note also that both of these cases are at least twice as expensive as the GX700, though they're also better built and more feature rich in their own rights.
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Belard - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - link
I've seen better.... worked with better. This thing is ugly and cheap.fluffyhead - Monday, February 25, 2013 - link
You have a problem with the top slot: "and the fact that the top one is basically blocked by the internal cables for the I/O cluster means the front of the case gets broken up needlessly"Why not mount the optical drive in the bottom slot? Esthetic issue solved. The other thought here is that there are many 5.25 kits for SD cards and such that would actually fit in that slot because they do not have a full case to interfere. That's what I'm going to do. This isn't the prettiest case, but it is incredible value for the dollar.
Mike89 - Thursday, March 14, 2013 - link
I wish you would have shown and talked about using this case with a 240mm radiator hooked up at the top. Would have been really good info for someone who is looking for a case that would accommodate a 240 mm radiator like Corsair's.