The Antec Skeleton is a new form of non-enclosure cases that can place any type of board possible (yes even an EATX board. With the new Antec going out of the picture with the full tower and mi tower enclosures with the enthusiast feature of having the case and open type for an easy on the fly examination of the board and also to show the handy work without the problem of having to see it in a small plastic side window.
The design of the Antec skeleton is more back in the drawing board rather than taking an idea that did not real work out as expected, yes the theory of having an open base case is not new but the implications and the design features are a bit new to the market, with the Antec sporting a large 230mm fan in top and with the front panel going with two USB ports one fire-wire and one ESATA port, so the normal PC system is not a real problem. Also the locations of each of the components like the motherboard are on the top for all to see the Optical drive in the bottom left hand side and the hard-drive is in the right hand side with an 80mm fan for reference. With the case being an open factor the problem of having the cooling cycle phase with this is a real down with this case, with not real plastic walls to confine the air inside so the case will have problem with the flow of the air so the air comes in the top fan and hits the motherboard and just move out in any of the spaces that does not have a wall to obscure the pathway. But the problem is just a small smack of the cons in the cases overall list, but pros are a little limited with less storage factors and the power supply cables are a nuisance when you want to see the motherboard but you time is all spend fixing the power cables and lucky enough to have a modular one.
But the cooling performance is not that ordinary and also not that spectacular with the huge fan sitting on top helps cool the whole motherboard but the rest of the hardware like the HDD have to put up with a small fan and the power supply adjacent in load may produce 40 degrees of heat and the fan cannot efficiently blow the hot air out so the heat is hovering in the bottom. For most other cases this is a good look for a new enthusiast open rig, but this case is purely to amuse the motherboard hardware with ordinary cooling capabilities.
