Synopsis:-
1. Introduction
2. The frontage
3. Other panels
4. Interior
5. Food
6. Assembly
7. Performances
8. Assessment
1. Introduction
Antec continues the progressive but continual renewal of its cases, and his spearhead of the range NSK, that of the cases proposes to us today including a food of quality and thus aiming before all the quality ratio/services/price. It is also this series which replaces the famous SLK. Equipped with a tariff halfway between the convincing NSK 4400, and P180 illustrates it, it should be noted that this NSK 6500 is posed in direct competitor of another well-known case of the Antec range, Sonata II. It represents compromised it ideal?
2. The frontage
The designers of Antec, for our part, lately disappointed us enough. Whereas since the SX1030 and until SLK/Sonata they had care to give to their cases a rather aggressive look and a black color, since P180 the achievements of the manufacturer are much more sober, neutral and consensual. This report is obvious on series NSK and thus on this 6500.
Its frontage is besides so close to that of the NSK 4400 which one would swear being in the presence of the same case with the first glance. However, some light differences are noticed afterwards: the two sites 3 " 1/2 disappear, and are replaced by the addition of a fourth site 5 " 1/4 equipped with a slit for an external peripheral of 3 " 1/2 (there are thus the choice). Even if this distribution of the sites is more logical, low exhaustiveness that this case offer is not worthy of its tariff of 100 €. Only another change, more beneficial this one: the return of the FireWire port and the connectors audio in addition to ports USB 2.0, surprisingly absent on the NSK 4400. Remain that they are rather badly positioned, all in bottom of the frontage whereas this case is mainly intended to rest directly on the ground.
For the remainder, one thus finds a frontage without door, out of silver plated plastic of good quality, and equipped with a circumference and masks blacks. If it thus invites naturally its purchaser to install external peripherals of this color, the recourse to beige readers does not pose a problem since all are it. The air intake is done via the many openings laid out on the section, the frontage integrating the masks deviating indeed from the true frontage before 1,6 cm, which is a good thing of the point of seen filtration of the noise (rising from P180). Lastly, only a blue LED is present between the two buttons of starting and restarting to testify to the activity of the hard disk, a luminous circle surrounding the first button during the powering.
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