Antec DF800 Flux – Dark League Mid-Tower Case Review

Peter Donnell / 2 years ago

Interior

The DX800 is a fairly modest size mid-tower, so while it’s not particularly spacious on the interior, it has a very clean layout that means some pretty hefty hardware is still supported. Antec says a Noctua U12 will fit easily enough, as will any of the larger graphics cards, such as those from ASUS and MSI (and they are huge!)

The front fans are mounted outside the case, freeing up extra space on the interior of the main chassis. This means you can easily put a radiator on this side too. There’s also a cut-away towards the bottom ensuring you can use the full height for additional cooling hardware, and it also allows airflow to pass more freely between the lower and upper sections of the case.

The PSU shroud is built-in and is very well ventilated. Keep in mind, that there’s a large ventilation section on the right-side panel, so cool air can come in on the side, and then through the PSU shroud. As you can see, there’s a boxed fan here, which has reversed blades that can pull air up into the case. I’ll have that installed later though.

In the rear, you’ll find a full bank of fully reusable, ventilated and metal expansion slot covers. There’s a sliding guard here too, move that, and you’ll have a little more wiggle room for those extremely long expansion card installations.

The rear fan, this one isn’t RGB like the front fans, but it is the same overall design.

Behind the motherboard, there’s quite a lot going on. Firstly, there are a lot of cables here, but that’s because all of the pre-installed fans are already wired into a pre-installed hub!

That means you only have to hook up a single PWM cable to your motherboard, and you’re good to go. As you can see, all the RGB headers are connected too, and there’s room for another three if you wanted to expand on that. There’s a spare fan header too, but that’ll be for the PSU shroud fan.