To all Antec Twelve Hundred Owners!

[Crazykenny]

I gotta get me a 1200, these things are beasts...

Yeah, cant wait to get mine. I'm gonna love fiddling with the cables behind the motherboard tray

 

[Crazykenny]

Alright, I got the case. Its looking awesome so far. Cablemanagement is easy and I did it the really lazy way. Routed all my cables behind my motherboard with no zipties whatsoever. Flipped it on its side, back end facing me and pushed the cables a little. Then I put the sidepanel back on, secured it and voila. Cablemanagement for dummies.

I quickend up the cablemanagement due to lack of time. I will redo it better in the summer vacation. For now it looks nice and tidy.

As far as cooling goes, it has the exact same performance as my HAF922 and I have yet to install the sidepanel fan and the bracket fan thats going to blow air over my videocard.

Pictures coming soon!

 

[eidairaman1]

Same Perf but Bigger case.

 

[Champ]

With the cleaning it thing, I have the baby brother...the 300, and I have to clean mine 2 or 3 times a week. You must live with Mr. Clean for once a month cleaning.

 

[eidairaman1]

Me? No I just keep the machine off the floor and vacuum every other week.

 

[TIGR]

Same Perf but Bigger case.

Actually, the HAF 922 is bigger overall:

Twelve Hundred: 20.20" x 8.40" x 22.90" (3886ci)
HAF 922: 22.20" x 10.00" x 19.70" (4354ci)

And we don't really have an accurate comparison between the cooling performance of the two cases here, as the OP had installed two extra 120mm fans in the HAF 922 and is, if I understand correctly, only using the stock Twelve Hundred fans so far.

 

[douglatins]

1. Space behind the Tray is tight.
2. Cable routing is limited, holes are not lined up with my mobo, (M-ATX)
3. Rather cramped, in length
4. PSU fan must be mounted up.
5. Filters are a pain to remove, u need to release a bunch of screw and might need to remove both sides.
6. Loud at max
7. No water cooling options.
8. Hard drives are in line with DVD drives. I like em at 90o to ease cable management.

This are cons.

1. Tall
2. Great paintjob.
3. Buttload of fans. Great cooling
4. Filters. I clean my insides with canned air and filters monthly or more. never gets too dusty.
5. Space for 9HDDS.

This are positives

I am being very critic to the case though. Its a great case. I would have chosen the ATCS, but it wasnt available. And now im thinking about getting it, though what would i do to the antec

 

[TIGR]

@douglatins: why a Twelve Hundred for an M-ATX rig?

 

[Bravo2Zero]

Tip when you unpack the case from the box it comes in try not to rip the plastic bag . it makes a good dust jacket you can use when the system is turned off and left idle for a long period and it folds up quite small when your using the pc and fits in a draw nicely . for the posts at the top about putting books over the grills on the top of the case .

 

[Crazykenny]

Alright, I got some crunching numbers. HAF922 Temps VS Antec Twelve Hundred Temps. HAF922 had all optional 120mm mounts filled with red LED fans, whilest the Antec only gets 1 extra fan over its stock amount. This fan is positioned in the top drive cage and is blowing over the back of the GFX card and directly into the V8.

Temps where taking using ASUS Probe II and CPUID PC Wizard 2010. Room temperature was 22C

Idle HAF922:
CPU: 32.5C
GFX: 32C
HDD1: 29C
HDD2: 32C
HDD3: 28C

Case Ambient temp: 27C

Load HAF922:
CPU: 42C
GFX: 72C
HDD1: 31C
HDD2: 33C
HDD3: 30C

Case Ambient temp: 30C

Antec Twelve Hundred Idle:
CPU: 28.8C
GFX: 30C
HDD1: 29C
HDD2: 31C
HDD3: 28C

Case Ambient temp: 24C

Antec Twelve Hundred Load:
CPU: 36.5C
GFX: 72C
HDD1: 30C
HDD2: 32C
HDD3: 29C

Case Ambient temp: 27C

 

[TIGR]

Thanks, good info. Looks like they might come out even if room temp were the same and both cases had all stock fans. I will be testing both of these cases, among others, under controlled conditions in the next month and your data gives me a bit of help getting started.

 

[Crazykenny]

Room temps where the same. The Antec is better airflowed then the HAF922. You can feel this physically aswell since the Antec pushes out far more air then my HAF922 ever did.

 

[TIGR]

Room temps where the same.

Load HAF922: ... Ambient temp: 30C

...

Antec Twelve Hundred Load: ... Ambient temp: 27C

By "ambient temp" did you mean the ambient temperature inside the case or the actual "ambient" temp (room temperature)? I assumed ambient meant the ambient temperature outside of the cases.

 

[Crazykenny]

Inside the case, lemme edit the lines so they are clear

 

[Crazykenny]

And as promised:

 

[epicfail]

hey jw whats that g15 app? gpuz? or something

 

[Crazykenny]

ATI Information Tool.

 

[epicfail]

ATI Information Tool.

k cool thanks ill have to download it, Monday when i get home. because im having doubts that my 4870x2 only goes up to 60 on load at only 50% fan.(alt tabbing out of game and checking)

while my cpu for some retarded reason probably misplaced HS or thermal paste needs reputting, can barely run OCCT at stock.
TJ-Max quit i mean not a crash.

 

[Crazykenny]

k cool thanks ill have to download it, Monday when i get home. because im having doubts that my 4870x2 only goes up to 60 on load at only 50% fan.(alt tabbing out of game and checking)

while my cpu for some retarded reason probably misplaced HS or thermal paste needs reputting, can barely run OCCT at stock.
TJ-Max quit i mean not a crash.

Try reseating the CPU heatsink. Also, alt-tabbing isnt a very good temp indication as temps are higher if you monitor them real time. Example: with alt-tabbing my 5870 never gets above 65C but ingame real time it gets 72C. The cooler of the card does a excellent job dissipating the heat.

 

[epicfail]

Try reseating the CPU heatsink. Also, alt-tabbing isnt a very good temp indication as temps are higher if you monitor them real time. Example: with alt-tabbing my 5870 never gets above 65C but ingame real time it gets 72C. The cooler of the card does a excellent job dissipating the heat.

ya i knew it wasnt completly accurate but would be decently close. like say it does get over 60 i though k its prob 65 or something. but ya ill check out reseating when i get back from the long weekend. ;-)
i just heard that the 4870x2 had heat problems,
but i guess i got lucky since i got the 4870x2 right when it released and its always been low temps on load.

 

[Crazykenny]

ya i knew it wasnt completly accurate but would be decently close. like say it does get over 60 i though k its prob 65 or something. but ya ill check out reseating when i get back from the long weekend. ;-)

Good luck with that

 

[Crazykenny]

A indication of how "cool" this case really is with some decent cable management.

 

[babolgam]

Hi guys, I just had my antec 1200...

I'm planning to switch out the fans but I don't have an idea what fans should I get...I'm still researching how much CFM these antec stock fans have. Any idea?

I'm looking at the coolermaster r4 fans but if they have the same CFM with the stock fans I might as well stick with the stock ones.

It would be a big help if anyone could advice me on what fans to get and how much cfm does the stock fans have. Thanks

 

[slyfox2151]

the stock Antec fans are fine, even on low speed there dead silent and push more then enough air.

imo stick with them.


i ran my current setup (in system specs) in summer with the Antec 1200 with all the 120mm fans on low and the large 220mm? fan on medium, both my CPU and Video card are overclocked a fairly large amount.

7 HDD's, 1 overclocked GTX260 and a E7300 @ 3.8GHZ with ambient temps aproching 35 - 40 degrees C.

my cpu never went over 85c, video card never over 80. thats running linpack and furmark not gaming.

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

1. Space behind the Tray is tight.
2. Cable routing is limited, holes are not lined up with my mobo, (M-ATX)
3. Rather cramped, in length
4. PSU fan must be mounted up.
5. Filters are a pain to remove, u need to release a bunch of screw and might need to remove both sides.
6. Loud at max
7. No water cooling options.
8. Hard drives are in line with DVD drives. I like em at 90o to ease cable management.

M-ATX mobo in a full size case? Crazy. I rather liked the cabling options for my setup. (Asus CrossHair III). Cable wise my only complaint is the bays are close to the board. #8 the 90 degree drive bays would have been nicer.

4.) Not all PSu's have large 120mm's that face up (My TurboCool 650 doesn't.) You could actually reverse the fans too if you wanted. (Though a lot of people dont want to open their PSU probably.)

7.) My 1200 has 2 water cooling holes, and I have a Black Ice Extreme II mounted to the dual 120mm's in the back. What do you mean by no options?

Overall I love this case. it is indeed quite a beast.