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July 2010
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Build Quality
Superior Airflow
7 PreInstalled Fans W Fan Controllers And Washable Air Filters (forward fans)
5 Regular 3.5' Drive Bays
4 HotSwap 3.5 Drive Bays
1 Exterior 2.5' HotSwap Drive Bay
Forward USB3.0 Port
Big and roomy
Seven fans included
Fan speed controllers
Outstanding airflow and cooling
Highly configurable
Numerous hotswap features
Placements for an optional 120mm fan
Very quiet (on low)
Very good value
Distinctive look
Helpful liquid cooling features
Hot swappable 3.5″ and 2.5″
7 adjustable speed fans
Solid construction
Good cooling
Lots of space
Both horizontally (for extra-long video cards and optical drives) and vertical (for working at the extreme edges of motherboards). Provides options for hot-swapping up to five drives. Doors protecting drive bays are lockable. Intake fan filters are much easier to remove than before. Front panel includes USB 3.0 port.
Outstanding design
Modularity
Ease of installation
Top-notch power supply
Seven fans preinstalled
Two 2.5" HDD/SSD options
Nice appearance
Fairly priced
Support for nine 3.5" HDD's
One external and four internal HotSwap interfaces
Intake fans have individual filters
All fans have speed control as standard
Well constructed
Full height side window
FleetRelease is good innovation
Good performance
Fully painted interior and exterior
USB 3.0 s
Awesome new design
Tons of cooling (7 included fans)
External 2.5-inch SATA dock
USB 3.0 front connection
Room for 9 hard drives
Packed with twoand threespeed fans
Front SATA and USB 3.0
Roomy
Cable management.
Very good price for the feature set
Interesting industrial look
4x 3.5 hot-swap bays
1x external 2.5 inch bay
All fans can be controlled manually and seperately
Loads of space inside the chassis
Screw-less hard drive installatio
The editors didn't like
Price (For Some)
Not The Most Spacious Interior
No eSATA Port
No toolfree features
Somewhat loud (on high)
Heavy
Big bay “guard rails?”
Lots of wires
Expensive. USB 3.0 port requires running an inconvenient cable through the system and out the back.
The handle on top could be just a little stronger for carrying the case
The PSU power cable connector could be standard
No support for quad GPU setup
No XL
ULTRA or EATX support
Space inside is wasted
Front fans are too loud at full speed
PSU mount is undesirable (unless you use CP series PSU)
Fan blocks top 5.25-inch drive bay
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No EATX support
No room for a triple radiator
Narrow
Top paint looks cheap.
Cable management possible
But no good way to hide them
No additional hot swap brackets to buy as accessories
Not the quietest case out there with fans on full throttle
No CPU power expansion cable
Weird implementation to route the USB cable out the b
Antec se ha superado a sí misma; con la DF-85 encontramos una gran caja con un sistema de refrigeración sin peros y soporta para un total de 11 discos duros. El diseño es digno de mención, con un sistema de compuertas frontal por el cual podremos cambi...
Nos ha gustado Diseño innovador Excelente sistema de refrigeración (7 ventiladores con sus filtros) Calidad de construcción Interior pintado de negro Número de compartimentos interiores (SSD incl) Control manual de ventiladores Acceso a...
Numerosos ventiladores de serie, todos manejables, Mucho espacio interno para dispositivos, Panel frontal con USB 3.0 y discos duros de 2,5" extraíbles
Nos gustaría un eSATA en el frontal,
Siempre pensamos que lo que necesitamos, o lo que tenemos en casa, es lo que tiene o necesita la gran mayoría de la gente, pero queda claro que no es así: aunque nosotros tengamos suficiente con una caja de tamaño normal, nunca podremos estar seguro de...
Qualité de fabrication, Filtres antipoussière sur la façade, Système « Hot Swap » 2.5’’ externe, Mobilité du système « Hot Swap » 3.5’’ interne, Contrôle de la vitesse de rotation des ventilateurs, Ouverture des portes pour les ventilateurs en façade
Fixation pour l’emplacement 2.5’’ interne, Aucun filtre antipoussière sur le sommet, Cage au format 3.5’’ entièrement à l’horizontale, Pas de connecteurs externes FireWire, et eSATA, Potentiomètres réservés aux ventilateurs d'origine, Les portes en façade pour les emplacements 5.25’’, Aucun système pour éteindre les LED des ventilateurs, Absence d'ouverture sur l’emplacement de l’alimentation, Sy
Inutile de tourner autour du pot, le DF-85 faisant partie du haut de gamme au même titre que le HAF X, ne nous a pas autant enchantés ! DF = Déception fatale ?Trop de points faibles sont à relever, ce qui donne un goût amer vu son tarif d’environ 180 ...
Abstract: Avec sa série Dark Fleet, Antec a lancé trois boîtiers entièrement nouveaux. Après avoir testé le décevant DF-30 dans un précédent article, c'est au tour de la version haut de gamme de la série Dark Fleet de passer sur le banc de test : le DF-85... Apr...
Finition, Ventilation puissante, Hot Swap, Montage HDD, Dock 2.5", Cable management, Rigidité, Espace interne, USB 3.0, Design
Montage par vis, Nuisance sonore, Anti vibration HDD absent, Emplacement SSD, Pas d'adaptateur 3.5", Dock et Hot Swap limités en Format, Mini Portes, Prix
Un nouveau boitier Antec, c'est un évènement, alors une nouvelle gamme, c'est carrément jour de fête (Euh, l’introduction en conclusion…). Avec Le DF-85, Antec tente donc de s’imposer sur le marché si concurrentiel du boitier dit Gamer, et on peut dire...
Abordons la conclusion par les résultats de nos tests.Tout d’abord, sa capacité de refroidissement. Au niveau du processeur, rude tâche pour ce boîtier qui doit refroidir un processeur particulièrement overclocké (2.8 @ 4 GHz). Il s’en sort plutôt bie...
Abstract: Quando ci si appresta a realizzare un PC prettamente destinato ad uso gaming le scelte da fare sono molteplici e non spesso facili. Questo perchè la macchina deve essere in grado di far girare la maggioranza dei giochi attualmente in commercio, ma con...
L'installazione dei componenti sull'Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 è risultata molto semplice anche con componenti piuttosto "ingombranti" come dissipatori a torre o schede video high-end. In conclusione abbiamo condotto un veloce test per le temperature di e...
L’installazione dei componenti sull’Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 è risultata molto semplice anche con componenti piuttosto “ingombranti” come dissipatori a torre o schede video high-end. In conclusione abbiamo condotto un veloce test per le temperature di es...
