Antec Constellation C8 White Dual Chamber Case Review

A Closer Look – Exterior

The first thing you’ll notice about this case is that it is pretty massive, by no means the largest E-ATX case I’ve ever seen, but given the size of the hardware that this thing supports, it certainly isn’t small either. What I do love is just how clear everything is, with two tempered glass windows and that all-white interior/exterior, you will certainly be able to show off your hardware. Keep in mind, that I have plastic protection still on the glass, it’ll look better later when I remove it.

Antec is the latest case maker to get rid of that front left pillar too, with both the side and front tempered glass meeting at the corner for uninterrupted views of your next PC build. Those windows are full height too, but there’s a little bit of white trim around the edges so you can’t see the boring parts where it mounts to the frame of the case.

Obviously, you can’t have fans in the front of the case due to the glass, so there’s a big focus on airflow elsewhere. The top panel has an absolutely massive ventilation section, allowing for fans or radiators in the top, but it’s also just going to allow for a lot of passive heat exhaust too.

The top panel has a fine mesh design and dust filtering, but the focus on keeping dust out continues to the front I/O panel too, where you’ll find rubber bungs in the audio jacks, USB Type-A and the Type-C port. I love that it’s all colour matched to white too, it’s very clean looking.

Towards the back, there’s some very subtle branding with the Constellation Series logo printed there in grey, so it doesn’t stick out too much and ruin the clean aesthetics.

Even the Antec logo is very understated. Have you seen it yet? It’s down there in the bottom right-hand corner of the front panel!

So, airflow, how much do you want or need? The C8 has an awful lot of it on the right-side panel, which is entirely made from mesh. So much so that you can actually see right through it!

Around the back, there’s a lot going on, and you can really see just how wide this case is, with the motherboard I/O and PCI slots on the near side, but there’s also a lot of width beyond the PCI slots, so extremely wide GPUs and water cooling hardware shouldn’t be an issue. Beyond that, you can see the PSU is in the rear section and mounted on its side, so it can use the ventilation on the right-side panel to draw in cool air.

I love the attention to detail though, with that triangle pattern ventilation on the rear and on the expansion slot covers. There are also both 120/140mm mounts for the rear fan/radiator mount, and they’re elongated to allow some height adjustment too.

All the expansion slots are metal, ventilated and reusable too, not that I would expect cheap snap-off ones on such a premium case!