Antec's Return: Cube mITX Case Designed by Razer Hands-On

By Steve Burke Published September 04, 2016 at 1:58 pm

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Once a leading force in the industry with the Antec 900, the company has been mostly quiet for the last few years. Antec's newest endeavor is in partnership with Razer, similar to what NZXT did with the H440 (“By Razer”) and S340 (“By Razer”) cases. We're not completely sure of how much design involvement Razer had with Antec on the case, but previous partnerships were largely logo licensing/branding and green/black color schemes that were not otherwise available.

The case was at PAX West 2016 for the first time, where we got a few moments of unsupervised hands-on with the case (see video below) for the basic specs. Since shooting that video, we've also retrieved a specs table from Antec (also below) with the hard information.

Antec Cube by Razer Specs

The Antec Cube Designed by Razer is a small form factor, mini-ITX case with an aluminum shell. The enclosure goes hard with acrylic windows, outfitting the top, left, and right sides with tinted acrylic paneling. On its face, the Cube uses a meshed front intake with the usual assortment of front I/O and buttons or switches.

Internally, the enclosure is capable of supporting up to 1x140mm rear radiator (or fan) and up to a single 240mm radiator in the front (or 2x120mm fans). The system includes a single 120mm exhaust fan. PSU length maxes out at 200mm and GPU clearance maxes out at 350mm (most cards – though not all partner cards). You'd probably want to use a blower fan for this case, as the motherboard is inverted and faces the GPU up (out of the acrylic), similar to the Revolt 2. This means no breathing for dual axial fan cards.

There are 4x 2.5” SSD mounts and a single 3.5” HDD mount in the case (at least three of the total mounts are in the right side compartment). The PSU is partially obfuscated by a shroud, and its cables route up-and-out into the main compartment.

We might be reviewing this one. Stay tuned.

Editorial: Steve “Lelldorianx” Burke
Video: Keegan “HornetSting” Gallick

Model	Antec Cube—Designed by RAZER
Case Type:	Mini-ITX
Drive Bays:	1 x 3.5” HDD Up to 4 x 2.5” SSD
Motherboard:	Mini-ITX
Expansion Slots:	3
Maximum graphics card size (without front intake fans/radiator installed) :	350 mm
Maximum CPU cooler height:	190 mm
Maximum PSU length:	200 mm
Cooling System:	Front: 2 x 120 mm front intake fan (Optional) Or: 1x 140 mm front intake fan (Optional) Or: 1x 180 mm front intake fan (Optional) Rear: 1 x 120 mm rear exhaust fan mount (pre-installed)
Radiator Support:	Front: up to 240 mm Rear: up to 140 mm
Front I/O Ports:	2 x USB 3.0, I/O button, Audio In/Out
Unit Dimensions:	365 mm(H) x 250 mm(W) x 460 mm(D) 14.37”(H) x 9.84”(W) x 18.11”(D)

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Antec Cube - Designed by Razer - antec.com

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