Reviews - Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 full-tower chassis review

[HEXUS]

Antec claims to offer it all with the DF-85. We take a close look.

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[Terbinator]

Test setup says Rampage 3 Gene for the motherboard but as far as i can tell its Intel's own offering in the picture.

Also, it looks fudging awful.

[Tarinder]

Test setup says Rampage 3 Gene for the motherboard but as far as i can tell its Intel's own offering in the picture.

Also, it looks fudging awful.

Nope, this is correct. We built it up with a SmackOver X58 and it promptly died. Replaced it with the Rampage but used the original pics. The picture is just to show the build more than anything else.

[Brewster0101]

Also, it looks fudging awful.

Fudging awful is an understatement. The Dark fleet series goes right up there with the best absolute terrible looking case.

There is nothing really good about this case, 3 out of 5 is too high of a mark in my opinion.

[Jay]

it looks really really nasty! Who would buy an ugly thing like that?

[MonkeyL]

Arrrrgggggghhhhh, my eye's!

[Funkstar]

As part of the three-holed handle at the top of the DF-85 there is a letterbox-shaped area featuring the DF-85’s party trick - a single 2.5in SSD-compatible hot-swap SATA drive-bay in a smoked-plastic cowling.

So how is that a handle? it's got a 2.5" SATA holder in the middle preventing you from getting you fingers all the way round the dodgy looking plastic, you would have to be an extreme rock climber to get a grip on that with your finger tips!

I didn't bother reading past that point. And yes, it's a terrible looking case.

[Brewster0101]

Actually can the reviewer actually justify the 3 out of 5 star rating. You only have two positives about the case in the breakdown conclusion. You only have 2 negative too, but they are two giant negatives. This case should have got a 2 of out 5 and a complete slating.