Antec Three Hundred Two Mid-Tower PC Chassis Review

Now that we have the side panel off we get a look at what is going on inside this chassis, the nice black paint job doesn’t continue inside the chassis, but that’s more than acceptable given the budget friendly price range and the fact this chassis has no side panel windows to peek through.  While at first glance there doesn’t appear to be much going on here, there are quite a few features to point out.  The first thing being a large back panel cut away for installing your CPU coolers without removing your motherboard, very handy for future upgrades to your cooling, to the right of that we have 4 screw holes for mounting a 2.5″ drive vertically on the back plate, we also have some limited but very welcome cable management holes, something that was non existent on the original Three Hundred chassis.

In the bottom of the chassis we can see there slide out air filter for the power supply as well as a rather basic, but again very handy set of screw holes on the right hand side for mounting a second 2.5″ drive.

On the right side of the chassis we have 3 quick release clips on the optical bays, with room for six 3.5″ hard drive below that, which can be installed using the included clip on rails, I like this system as the bay is left unobstructed which all helps with air flow coming in from the front of the chassis.

In the back of the chassis we can see the rear pre-installed 120mm fan and the eight expansion slot covers, which aren’t ventilated, but there are some extra ventilation areas on the left of these.

At the top of the inside of the chasis we get a better view of the 140mm pre-installed fan as well as the two water cooling cut-outs.

Now that we have the rear panel removed we can see my favourite feature on this chassis, the back panel has a “Z” shape to it, which means with the rear side panel attached there is still a vast amount of room for cable management.