Maybe you saw the previous post and thought, “Well, that’s all well and good, but why is such a stylish case being used to ventilate cat feces?” Antec has heard your cries and has created a computer case with all the lovely curves of a litter box and just as much airflow. The Skeleton case has an open frame design with a 250mm fan on top. You mount the motherboard to a sliding tray. The power supply and hard drives are mounted underneath. It’s an interesting idea and easily replicated, but if cooling had been the goal, it would be a lot more enclosed. You can see the case with components installed on TweakTown.
[via acquire, thanks, xtine]
sounds like a good way to get even more dust / bugs / cat hair in your pc…
whats up with the redirect page on that website? the page loaded and maybe 2 seconds later some other page came up asking me to turn off my adblocker. how can i stop it from doing that?
This is the perfect case for those people that never seem to get around to putting the
cover back on.
@ monster, just get noscript and dont let tweaktown run js
and the ‘case’ isnt that great. it is jsut a regular bench table with a 250mm fan on top
F*ck Tweaktown and their moronic “No Ad Blockers Allowed” Policy”.
There’s nothing in the WORLD that I can’t find on 50 other sites that would
make me change MY setup on MY computer with MY web browser.
Hackaday, you’re SOOOOOOOO much better then these fops – please do not waste
everyone’s time by linking to them.
I’d have so many lung problems with that case.
I didn’t get any popups when I went to TweakTown. The only extension I have is FlashBlock.
seems like the perfect case for an IT work bench with the slideable tray and everything
Find another site detailing this case. These people are against
freedom of speech clearly. Always fun to hack at what is demanding
us to disable our ad blockers though. ;)
hello, is this HACK a day?
Oh, for God’s sake.. why not just put the disgusting creature in a sack and throw it in the river? m
Just turn off Javascript to keep the redirect page from
appearing. I’d rather stick needles in my eye that browse
without Adblock enabled.
Wouldn’t this also let a lot of processor ‘noise’ escape? I’ve had an open case near a radio and I could actually hear the processor through the radio whenever the processor was under more load. That didn’t happen when the server next to it, with a closed case, was the only one on.
@VonSkippy
I completely agree. Instead of turning off ABP or js I just won’t go to their site.
This is the UGLIEST looking case I have ever seen.
More dust means, more random shutdowns, one more can of the air duster wasted.
The one thing I can give it credit for is, i can fry my eggs on top of it, bake a cake and barbeque on it.
looks good, completely unpractical.
A new one from me
their anti adblock is easily defeated……with adblock!
(If you have the filterset G updater installed, just allow
a couple of things to show, from there it won’t redirect, and
you don’t have to see ads.)
Allow:
/phpadsnew/www/delivery/afr.php (loads 6 hidden frames)
/phpadsnew/www/delivery/fl.js (may be what checks for the frames)
/phpadsnew/www/images/1×1.gif (probably related)
You can leave everything else blocked, and still browse ad-free.
The point is that we shouldn’t have to jump through hoops
to see the content, be it shutting off protective stuff
or having to poke around in out programs.
It’s retarded.
Full retard I mean.
i’ve written a greasemonkey script to eliminate tweaktown’s adblock-blocking (that site’s ads are egregiously annoying)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32334
the thing about having that computer open is so you can dust it off or blow air on it every now and then, too.
Although this is so June news, it is finally coming out. This site scooped it back then with a full photo gallery and a full walk through video:
http://www.futurelooks.com/computex-2008-spotlight-antec-comes-out-of-closet-with-skeleton/
@will d.
Good work!
none of these comments make any sense to me!!!!!
Has anyone else thought of the liquid cooling prospects of this thing? If you are gonna do a custom setup and not a kit this thin would be perfect. I used a heater core from an old car as my radiator and it seems that if you could mount it over the fan you could put water blocks on all of the hot components and be just fine. Get a couple UV lights with some UV-reactive coolant and it would look amazing.
Since my house doesnt have bugs, and my cat is not allowed to hump my desktop I guess id be ok huh… cmon now…
Here a deep review about the Antec Skeleton. It is in italian, but it includes a lot of photos. Take a look here: informaticaeasy.net/le-mie-review/391-antec-skeleton-intrigante-chassis-open-air.html