Installation – AMD System

After placing the additional stand offs on the motherboard tray the system is ready for completion, the motherboard can be screwed in tight quickly, the lack of a removable motherboard tray doesn’t really bother too much as there is plenty of maneuvering space inside the case. I decided to remove the additional plastic 120mm fan holder which normally clicks onto one of the two hard drive bays:



Initially the VGA card was installed in the upper PCI slot, which made the two DVI connectors use the upper most PCI slot:



Antec discovered a compatibility problem in this case, back at the end of October they send out this note to those people with early product samples:



The Nine Hunderd cases you find on stores shelves today are revised versions, and you won’t have the issue I ran into:



With the VGA card in the 2nd high speed PCIe slot of the Asus the connectors worked as designed. Cable management can be challenging depending on where the additional motherboard power connectors need to go, since the PSU is at the bottom and most of these connections are to be made at the top of the motherboard you’ll have cables running everywhere. Thanks to the cable binders at the right side of the motherboard most cables can be kept out of the airflow path.



The 5.25” drives are screwed to the chassis, and don’t obstruct the installation of the motherboard, the case is deep enough to accommodate larger optical drives.



If you have more than six hard drives you can use the extra 3.5”>5.25” bay, installation is straight forward, which is expected for such a simple device



Installation – Intel System

While testing the case with AMD system did help to evaluate the easiness of installation/removable, the thermal capabilities of the 900 could not be fully exploited with a lowly clocked Opteron CPU and rather cool running 7900GT video card.

With help of few friends and selling of some Christmas present I was able to build a Core 2 based system powered by nVIDIA’s latest GPU, the 8800 GTX. This video card is a monster compared to previous generation cards, and it can be a challenge to fit inside your case.



The Nine Hunderd Case doesn’t pass the test with flying colors, but it comes close, you don’t need a dremel to make it fit. That additional plastic 120mm fan for one of the drive bays needs to go, this makes it possible to fit the Geforce 8800 GTX, you will loose a HDD spot in the drive bay though:



With the hardware inside it’s time to power on ->