Antec's open air Skeleton PC case is so breezy

While the Acrylic Cowboy family of cases still has our hearts (okay, so maybe it's just the mascot that does it for us), Antec's latest offering is certainly worthy of praise. The aptly-dubbed Skeleton is wrongfully hailed as the "world's first open air case," but in reality, it is one of only a handful. Even with all that openness, there's still a 250mm fan up top along with a 92mm one up front, but we suppose there's no harm in being too careful. It also provides four drive bays, a layered tray design, seven expansion slots and a meager assortment of ports. You will have to provide your own power supply when the time comes, however, and you'll also have to wait a tick to find out a price and release date.

[Via BoingBoing, thanks Matt]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2008 11:14AM]

Come on people...Am I the ONLY one thinking XBox 360 RRoD prevention replacement case? You can even throw the PSU under a fan...

[drumstix576 Posted Sep 18th 2008 11:25AM]

This review site has some pictures with the MOBO and other hardware installed:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article840-page1.html

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2008 12:13PM]

Even with all the guts installed it looks pretty neat. I really like this.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2008 11:24AM]

SilentPCReview has some pictures of this case with components installed that give a MUCH better idea of how this thing works than Antec's boring, empty press shots..

[grifmx Posted Sep 18th 2008 11:48AM]

I use to use little Shuttle computers as Gigastudio samplers. After some years, they all started dying at once probably because of heat. So I stripped the case covers and the hard drive mounts and replaced all the fans with quite ones, removed the optical drives, mounted the hard drives with stretchy bands, and added a few extra fans to move air past the whole unit - which is relatively the same as this.

Only difference is the Shuttles look like crummy broken down jalopies and this looks kinda cool!

The future of computers is silent, cool-running, affordable machines.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2008 12:01PM]

Wow... that really looks like the base of my Philips blender!

[MikeWard1701 Posted Sep 18th 2008 12:09PM]

Yay! A playground for the spiders in my house!

[dbam987 Posted Sep 18th 2008 12:49PM]

lol, i can see spyders rappelling down straight into the top fan and getting all diced up. in this case it would probably make cleaning the top fan quite a pain.

[MikeWard1701 Posted Sep 18th 2008 1:09PM]

They'd probably avoid the fans (whilst the comp is running anyways), and go dancing all over your mobo and expensive graphics card.

Next thing you know your GPU has overheated and they're 47 dead spiders in its fan.

Dunno what it is but they seem to like the interior of computers, a friend recently found a (dead) wasp inside his server.

[dbr Posted Sep 19th 2008 1:43AM]

Yeah, cause nothing cools a PC like sucking in a bunch of snow filled air.

[dbam987 Posted Sep 18th 2008 12:48PM]

this case looks intriguing, but i don't see if it's capable of fitting my graphics card (radeon 4850)... oh wait, no walls to hit against. the pictures do not do it justice. is this a micro-atx case? the link pointing to the page for it says its atx, but...

[Xerloq Posted Sep 26th 2008 10:24PM]

I just keep the side off of my Sonata II. I then put a 508 MM fan (i.e. lasko box fan) on the open side of the case and let it blow. It's not as noisy as you would think, especially with headphones. Just got to figure out a way to ratchet down the RPMs as the low setting is kind of fast.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2008 1:29PM]

here's a good vid of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcEH2qLXHFY&feature=related

[highjumpman Posted Sep 18th 2008 2:14PM]

Anybody who buys this will have to think really hard about where to put it. There's just way too many factors and hazards to consider...

[jsmrekar Posted Sep 18th 2008 5:14PM]

Put it in my IT/Work computer graveyard to test components.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2008 5:54PM]

Has anyone looked at those dimensions? That thing is massive. Wake me when a uATX version comes out.

[BetterThanBozo Posted Sep 18th 2008 7:51PM]

If I got one of these, I'd call it my Dome of Death for my FPS games.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2008 10:12PM]

I think it looks bad ass. Once I saw it I knew that'd be my next "case". I just like different looking things and that'd really look good on my desk. I don't see why people are complaining about spilling drinks on it or cats electrocuting themselves in it or crap like that. Don't live like a slob for one thing and keep your friends away from it when you're drinking. :D

(the cats will learn after they skin their nose on the fan)