I just had a read through and I agree with your points

Personally from a design perspective, I believe that it should have less than a 7. Not being able to fit ANY aftermarket cooler unless it's Ultra-low profile is just absolute insanity and Antec should be shot and killed for it.

Also the fact it's not all alu....or at least metal makes it horrible for longevity in my opinion. This is designed EXCLUSIVELY for enthusiasts and any enthusiast worth their salt will want a good cooler fitted to their test bench and basically you're limited to Intel's wonderful stock offering. Frankly it's a disgrace that the designers did not think of this. It's purely and simply carelessness and incredibly bad design.

Can you tell it annoys me? :p

Shame on Antec

How do you think I felt m8 having to search for a stock intel cooler in the loft at 11pm. Not a happy chappy.

Some coolers may well fit under but the coolers I have which I mentioned in the review do not which is a fair representation of the high end air coolers available in my opinion.

I was being generous with the score as the top fan is gorgeous aswell as silent and cools the board well. The sliding mechanism is also very good but like you say the suicidal design of the heatsink obstruction is crazy. I'm very surprised not many other reviews have picked up on it.

What do you reckon then for the score, 5? 6? And should it be attributed to performance or presentation?

Performance - 5 is a little harsh but it almost deserves it...6?

Just past half way down on the 3rd page:

Above left we see a feature of the Skeleton which is a definite weakness, The flimsy acrylic PCI support has seven screw holes as opposed to the standard six which is a great idea, allowing users to add USB backplates etc. However the material used is not so great.

I think that is meant to be above right. :)


Edit: Also this image (7th) on page 4 links to the small image and not the larger version:

[IMG]http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2008/11/13202653450s.jpg[/IMG]

Just past half way down on the 3rd page:


I think that is meant to be above right. :)

Ah yeah, I had a last minute juggle of the pics. Nice spot ;)

Line space formatting is a little off in a few places.

All of page one, the first two paragraphs on page two and the first paragraph on page three have larger spaces between the lines.

Changed - cheers.



Ah yeah, I had a last minute juggle of the pics. Nice spot ;)

No probs... just finishing up reading now :)



Edit:

Half way down page 4:

One thing the Skeleton does well and that is to cool the components. As well as the 250mm top fan, Antec have included a 92mm fan to cool the hard drives. This is a much needed feature considering airflow beneath the motherboard would be zero without it.

There is a missing 'to' which i've added above.

Line spacing and 'small' font shud be fixed now too

Line spacing and 'small' font shud be fixed now too

Indeedy Mr. Jim. Only things left to change that I noticed is that picture and the missing 'to'.

Good review by the way Webbo :)

It's a bit expensive aint it!

The price would be fine IF they had gotten the damn design right. I would dearly love to know why Antec released this case without actually building a setup in it first.