Antec P7 NEO Mid-Tower Case Review

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The Antec P7 Neo was incredibly easy to work with, given that it has such large amounts of cable routing space, plus that PSU shroud, it was effortless to get a clean and tidy looking build on the first try.

The space behind the motherboard is good, but I’m glad I went with the Noctua U12, as the D15 may be pushing the height limit, and I wouldn’t want it pressing against the insulation foam on the side panel.

The front fans are mounted nice and low, giving the bulk of their focus to the GPU, which is fine with me. Furthermore, being low down, they’ll pull in cooler air at the bottom, which will naturally get pushed through the case, moving up to the only real outlet, the 120mm rear fan.

There’s no shortage of length here, and actually, I expected the E-ATX motherboard to take up more of it. However, it’s good news for longer GPUs too, with the GTX 1080 Ti providing little challenge for the available space.

I would have liked a vertical GPU cable cut-out in the shroud, but since this case has no windows, I guess aesthetics on the interior really aren’t a concern.

At least you do have plenty of room here, so if you’re putting multiple GPUs in, there’s room to deal with cables, wider heatsinks, etc., easily enough.

Overall, it’s a fairly predictable build, with the only “issue” being that I had to remove the 5.25″ drive bay to use E-ATX. Still, given the outside dimensions of the case, that’s not particularly surprising.

All the panels back in place, and it looks just as crisp as it did when I took it out of the box.