Antec Overture II Piano Black ATX Desktop

by Antec

Product Details

• Item Weight: 23 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 22 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009JR4L0
• Item model number: OVERTURE II
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 2, 2005

Product Description

Overture II is the updated version of Antec's classic, timeless enclosure design for high-performance media center systems. With its elegant finish, blue LED illumination and chrome accents, Overture II blends gracefully into any living space. Its customized 450 Watt SmartPower 2.0 ATX12V 2.01 power supply delivers astonishingly quiet operation, and its enhanced cooling features will support the hottest CPUs on the market. Cooling - 1x 92mm rear TriCool Fan installed, Two 75 x 30mm quiet Blower Fans for maximum cooling Top Panel with vents for maximum cooling for CPU and VGA card Front Accessible Drive Bays - 2x 5.25, 2x 3.5 inch Internal Drive Bays - 2x 3.5 inch Expansion Slots - 7 Cooling System - 92mm rear TriCool Fan installed Main Board Size - Width 12 x Length 9.6 inches Motherboards - Micro ATX & Standard ATX Special Features - Removable 3.5 inch drive cage with rubber grommets Thermally-regulated fan installed Front USB, FireWire Ports Package Includes - Media Center Case, 450 Watt single fan SmartPower 2.0, Power cord, set of screws and motherboard, tandoffs, Installation manual Dimensions - Height 5.25 x Width 17 x Depth 19.25 inches, 13.3 x 43.2 x 49 cm

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty, but be careful of overheating, January 21, 2007

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G. Sabatino (Rhode Island, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Antec Overture II Piano Black ATX Desktop (Personal Computers)

I bought this case for two reasons. I knew this was a high quality product and I wanted something that I could put in my stereo cabinet and go totally wireless. I was very impressed with how things clipped in and function right down to the rubber stand-offs for vibration isolation. Product was built solid. However, I maxed it out with something in every slot INCLUDING four 250GB SATA hard drives and a high end video card that required its own power feed. Bad idea. I blew the power supply and overheated one of the drives in about 6 months. As nice as this case is, don't be deceived by the number of available slots if you're thinking of cramming something into every slot. Ventilation is poor on the four 3.5in bays and it runs hot for me. I still think it is very good, but I would have gone with the Antec tower if I knew overheating and power consumption was going to be an issue (remember, I loaded it down). Don't even sweat it if you only have 1 or 2 hard drives and a DVD. This case will handle that no problem.

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware the power supply, January 11, 2011

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Dave Angus (Nanaimo, B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Antec Overture II Piano Black ATX Desktop (Personal Computers)

Good features:
Shiny.
Good hard drive location for cooling.
Enough external drive bays.

Bad features:
Proprietary power supply, which fails and kills the motherboard.
Noisy fans.
Flimsy steel.
Not rack-mountable.

This review comes a bit late, but since I'm (finally) about to strip the usable bits out of the case and then recycle it, I figured I might as well commemorate the event.

The initial disappointment was how NOT quiet all the fans are, because that was my main purpose in getting this. But, I installed my Celeron 4 mobo etc and used it as my HTPC and P2P server, with two hard drives and a DVDRW. Until the power supply failed, taking the motherboard with it, but fortunately not the drives. Probably I should have RMAd the power supply, but, anyway, that's when it sunk in that this was definitely not a standard power supply. So, I stripped the case and went back to using a standard ATX tower, thinking that one day I might kluge a normal power supply to fit the Antec case.

Time passes, and I'm just going to salvage the front panel I/O board (USB, Firewire, audio), blue LED, IEC case socket, fans, and the rubber-mount hard drive cage. I may combine the drive cage with the variable speed fan to make a quiet(ish) fan cooled drive bay.

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid case, looks good, runs cool, October 8, 2007

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P. Marshall (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Antec Overture II Piano Black ATX Desktop (Personal Computers)

I've had the Overture II case for about a year now. I'm running 2 hard drives and 1 optical drive and the case disperses heat very well. I agree with the previous reviewer that it is not suited for 4 hard drives and with a high performance video processor.

It's nice to have the case off the floor, it looks great on a desktop and accumulates a fraction of the dust my old tower case did. The case is well ventilated with a minimum of fan noise.

It's a well designed case and component installation was easy. When I build my next PC I will probably buy another.