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I just came across this artical. What is your general openion about this case? Things that I take into consideration before buying a case are

1) Air Flow: The air ventilation should be good so that the circuits inside remains cool
2) Dust Proof: IT should'nt be a dust magnet just like Antec 900.
3) Gaming: I always like to show guts in gaming

All these features I've found in Antec 902, and Antec 300 Illusion. Does this case matches them?
 
The Dark Fleet series from Antec look terrifying. Terrifying in a bad way as it makes the HAF series look handsome. On those merits alone I'd stay away, but from other reviews I've read the thing is actually pretty good. Nice cooling and features that match your preferences.
 
- Cramped interior just like the Antec 902.
- Looks uglier than the Antec 902
- Good cooling though.
 
Why does Antec continue to make cases that are so narrow from front to back and then burden them with parallel hard drive mounting instead of perpendicular? This case is fairly ugly by most peoples standards but some might like it, so no big deal. Its the functional shortcomings that appear in almost every Antec case that confuse me.

This DarkFleet case is only 1" longer than the old *tec Dragon design back in 2002. Video cards have grown a lot longer than 1", and motherboards are using every inch of ATX space, as opposed to the many narrow motherboards that didn't use full ATX width back in 2002.

It has to be an intentional design choice, because nearly every other manufacturer has recognized the need for a longer case and arranged the hard drives more logically. I would be interested to hear why they've tried to avoid that setup.
 
So I should go for Nine 'O two which is fairly 70 bucks cheaper than this one but one of the best perfomance'? I don't know why after Antec P180 / 182, why they discontinued making a saperate chamber for PSU?
 
maverick786us said:
So I should go for Nine 'O two which is fairly 70 bucks cheaper than this one but one of the best perfomance'? I don't know why after Antec P180 / 182, why they discontinued making a saperate chamber for PSU?
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I wouldn't recommend the 902 as well. I'd recommend the Coolermaster 690 II case. Roomier, cools just as well and yet is cheaper than the 902.
 
I already have Coolar Master 690, what is the major difference between 690 classic and 690-2? How good is it in managing dust?
 
For the price of the DF-85 you'd be better off going with a Silverstone Raven 2. Better cooling, gaming looks w/ window, includes good dust filters (and positive pressure design inhibits dust), and cheaper.
 
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the df-85 is just the 1200 chassis with different plastic, and a couple extra features. the df35 seems much nicer. and cheaper. and if you want to spend around $100 you can get the cm sniper for $99 free shipping for the next few days, and this is a great case.
 
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