Remember the case that Antec teased last week? The wraps are officially off. The new enclosure is called the Signature S10, and it certainly represents a new direction in case design for the company. First, though, you'll want a look at this full-tower chassis in all its glory:
The S10 separates power, storage, and the motherboard into three separate chambers. The storage chamber holds up to six 3.5" hard drives and three 2.5" drives at the front of the case. A dedicated 120-mm fan at the bottom of the case moves air across the storage devices. Swing-away doors cover the storage and motherboard chamber. Buyers will have their choice of brushed aluminum or tempered glass side panels.
The motherboard chamber gets its own cooling air—and lots of it—by way of three 120-mm intake fans in front. A pair of 140-mm fans and another 120-mm spinner move heat out of the case. The motherboard tray is ringed with cable grommets, and Antec promises a generous 1" of clearance for cable routing behind the tray.
The S10 can swallow GPUs up to 12.5" long and air coolers up to 6.5" (165 mm) tall in its main chamber. Radiators up to 280 mm long can be mounted up top, while the front wall of the case has room for a 360-mm liquid cooler. As a full-tower case, the S10 offers ten expansion slots and compatibility with super-sized E-ATX and XL-ATX motherboards. That's enough room for quad-GPU builds.
The power supply chamber has room not only for a PSU, but also five more 2.5" drives. An optional 120-mm spinner can be added here for extra storage cooling.
In keeping with its flagship status, the S10 rings in with a $499 suggested price. We're getting one of our own for an in-depth review soon, so stay tuned for our hands-on tests.
Did anyone tell Chyangfun Industries their A7007 got copied?
[url<]http://www.chyangfun.com/cfi-a7007.html[/url<] Also, that one has hot-swap and is only AU$120.
Meh. $499 for a case that doesn’t transform? Ripoff.
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Here’s direct link to Antec with a video about this case.
[url<]http://www.antecsignature.com/[/url<] I've watched this video twice now, and need to get back to work. Lots of nice talk, but I'm not seeing or hearing much to justify this very high cost.
U.G.L.Y you ain’t got no alibi…
You ugly! Hey ya, you ugly!
…. tbh, i’ve seen far worse, but still… this is ugly.
Clearly you aren’t account for one of the components then, it’s pretty obvious to me:
$18 raw materials
$4 packaging
$9 R&D overhead, prototype cost absorbtion, factory tooling etc
$16 shipping from the other side of the planet to a distributor in your country
$452 profit
There’s not a dollar spare, so I don’t really see how Antec could make it any cheaper and your comment is unreasonable, in my opinion.
Cooler Master Silencio is pretty nice, not perfect, but the closest so far to my ideal case.
Ikr, why is it so hard?
Why can’t these case making companies just make me the monolith from 2001? Understated awesome is awesome.
Good call.
Ugly! From the right angle, it looks like a coffin. Amirite?
i was expecting a lot more than that for 500bucks Antec..
sorry but nope..
I fail to see why this case costs $499.
I’ll stick with my Cosmos II thanks.
Another fugly case.
What is with the top tier case manufacturers these days? There is a segment of the market that wants grown up looking cases that have all their cool design stuff on the INSIDE of the case. I just want a black monolith made out of high quality materials that has all the bells and whistles inside.
Good luck getting a full custom case of this size that doesn’t suck designed and fabbed for $500.
(I wouldn’t buy this case either, but I think your expectations are unrealistic.)
So how closely related is it to the Datsun 200SX
I still use my Antec Sonata III as my main desktop case and it’s great (showing it’s age a bit, though). I loved that case, but if I had to replace it, I’d definitely go with something from Corsair or Fractal Design I think.
i only wish it wasnt about $400 to ship one of them to australia 🙁
i would love a caselabs
My only reaction to this story is CaseLabs…..
Huge and expensive, also looks a little awkward to build into, but the biggest disappointment is the quality.
It’s a standard steel case with a huge amount of plastic. At best, you get side panels that aren’t cheap plastic, but I’m not sure I’d want to go with either the glass or aluminium options with so much plastic on display. At that point the glass/aluminium is just lipstick for the pig.
Honestly, the funky layout is unproven and I [b<]*absolutely hated*[/b<] trying to route cables between the partitions in the P180, 182 and Antec's previous attempts at this.
$500 for an Antec case would be like dropping 300 grand at the dealer and driving home in your brand new KIA. I don’t care if this was designed in a lab using Korea’s best scientists and machine build by robots with a .0000002% error tolerance. When all is said and done, if you have that kind of money, what you really should have spent that money on is either:
a Ferrari ) [url<]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108128&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=PPSSBGDRYLXVJN-_-11-108-128-_-Product[/url<] or a Lambo ) [url<]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811854013&cm_re=phantek-_-11-854-013-_-Product[/url<] or even a Merc for that matter ) [url<]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139049&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=PPSSBGDRYLXVJN-_-11-139-049-_-Product[/url<]
I fail to see what this does better than a $100 fractal design case, those things are excellent.
It’s just a lot of contrived design for contrived designs sake.
But at the end of the day it’s still a big black box you’ll want to hide under your desk.
there are plenty of people willing to pay that price for a case
for example i purchased a corsair 900D a few years ago when they came out for $500
i dont expect everyone to want to spend so much on a case but thinking that nobody would is flat out wrong
you’re also a man who doesn’t need a case like this.
Can you justify the cost of first class on a flight? Of course not. You can’t afford it.
You’re looking to buy a Kia, while browsing Ferraris.
If I was spending $500 and up for a case, it’d be me paying someone to create a custom case design for something unique that would scream out that this case really cost $500. While I like the layout of this case there is no way id buy this at that price. $100-150, sure. $200 maybe, but I’d look at other cases first.
Yeah, it seems they really fell off. Cases just aren’t made like they used to be.
I don’t care if it’s heavy, give me that cold rolled steel.
It’s not possible really to tell if this case is worth $500. All that is being presented here is a brief ad for the case. A thorough review I guess will critically examine what is or is not so special about this case to warrant such a high price tag.
And this is a very high price tag. I mean, is this lined platinum or something? I’ve always liked Antec, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Now let’s see a really good critical review.
That’s exactly what I have. Antec 900 and a 620W PSU I got on sale. I can’t imagine needing anything more considering the direction hardware is going.
This case kinda reminded me of the days when I used to build my own PCs.. some fond memories there.
I had an Antec case for my Athlon.. but i completely forgot the model number :s
Adi
Yeah, it just doesn’t seem like a worthwhile market segment to care about. Maybe I’m just having trouble emphasizing.
there are plenty of $100 cases for you if you want them
this case is designed for a completely different market segment than your needs
I loved Antec’s cases, it hurts me to say that I just don’t get this case.
I just can’t justify that price. It’s the cost of an entire high end gpu.
Between this and high end 1+ kW psus, I’m tired of it. I want to hear about something that I might actually buy. It feels like companies have these ridiculous flagships just so they can hunt for corporate epeen.
I just want a $100 case and a 500w psu. I’m a simple man.