Antec Veris seris – HTPC with VFD and volume control
Antec has some Media Center cases in their Veris series called Fusion (v2) and Fusion Black. There’s a comparison table here.
What do you think about this case? Rate it!
(23 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)
I have an Antec Fusion case, and i must say I am very happy with it so far.
pros:
VFD is great (but a little small)
case is quiet
variable fan speeds
easy to build
cons:
small VFD for large rooms
only space for 2 hard drives
volume control doesn’t work when you use optical out
All in all I am very happy with the case, it looks great and performs well. The large interior fans keep it very cool even at low speeds. The inputs on the front are handy, although you probably don’t want to mess up the look of your media centre by having cables coming out of these all the time. The VFD can tell you all sorts of information, and i just wish it was able to span the 2 lines to be bigger, although i hear that 3rd party software will allow you to do this.
I was also strangely impressed with the lack of dust that it collected inside after about 6 months of running 24/7 as a media server!