Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅20-08-10
Interior

Now inside the case we can check out some of the features in a little more detail. Firstly, the rear and top mounted fans. The rear exhaust fans are 120mm LED ready. So when powered up, they will illuminate red. The top mounted fans are 140mm and are not LED ready. All four fans require molex connections, so routing cables up from your PSU might be a bit of a task. If you have molex to 3-pin adapter this might be the better option to go for. Aside from this though, the DF-85 is very spacious so it won't feel cramped anyway.



Now we will take a look at the 'Fleet Release' doors. These are by default locked upon arrival. To get access to these doors they need to be unlocked, to do this there is a lever near the front on the inside of the prominent side panel. Knock this up to unlock the doors. Once opened you will be able to take a look at the fans that are installed inside the doors. The fans used are the same as the rear exhaust fans - 120mm LED ready. What's great about this feature is you can easily gain access to HDDs installed within the case without too much hassle. In particular the top and bottom of the three units have the ability to hot swap 3.5" drives. As I've already mentioned, the speed of each of these fans can be fully controlled via the knob's at the front side.



With the side panel off on the opposing side to the motherboard, there is clearly lots of space visible. Plenty of areas to loop cables through and conceal any untidy mess. Its pleasing to see the backplate cut-out for the CPU Cooler is a rather large and should allow swapping CPU Coolers to be a non-arduous task.



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