Antec signature s10 review

Antec Signature S10 technical specifications

Antec Signature S10 Exterior and Unboxing

Antec makes an impressive presentation… both for the size of the box and for its minimalist style. The box is very heavy, so we recommend that you move it between two people. Inside we find:

Antec Signature S10 box Instruction manual Mounting hardware and flanges

The tower has dimensions of 60.2 x 23 x 59 cm (height x width x depth) and a weight that reaches up to 17 kg. It has a large tower and is available in black. As we can see, its entire interior is made of brushed aluminum… in person it makes a huge impact. We are surely in front of one of the best towers in design and possibilities on the market.

The front is completely smooth, if we look at the upper area we see a movable plastic piece. This serves as one more measure to lock off the side covers. Regarding the connections we find 4 USB 3.0 connections, audio input / output and the power button. Among its cons we see that the box does not incorporate any external 5.25 ″ bay… so if we want a DVD / Blu-Ray reader we must purchase an external one.

Each side cover has a safety button (Door) that allows you to open the door just by pressing on it. The results are seen in the following images:

The internal presentation, I still do not understand window, is very elegant and well-kept. I really like the router system of the internal wiring. It will give us a lot of margin to leave a very clean installation. Also comment that at the back we find a small multiplier of 3-pin connections for fans and a plastic cover to cover the area of the motherboard that is exposed to the wiring (rear area of the socket).

Antec Signature S10 Interior

The Antec Signature S10 is compatible with both XL-ATX, E-ATX, ATX micro-ATX and Mini-ITX motherboards with ten expansion slots. The entire internal structure is made of SECC steel painted in satin black.

One of its great strengths is the large hard disk booth that occupies the entire front of the tower. It allows us to remove hard drives in Hot-SWAP mode. How many hard drives can we install? We detail it for you:

6 x 3.5 ″ Tool-Free Quick Mount Bays (HDD). 8 x 2.5 ” Tool-less Quick Mount (SSD) bays.

As we mentioned earlier, the wiring system is excellent. We have many areas enabled to pass all the wiring (cablemanagement). Being such a large box, surely we need to buy some extender to lengthen the cables and they do not go right towards our components.

A detail that I loved is that it incorporates a high-end anti-vibration system for our power supply. It is compatible with any ATX power supply on the market, having a good bottom for installation.

Regarding refrigeration, we have a good arsenal of installed fans. Two 140mm fans in the tower ceiling, three 120mm fans in the front of the tower and one in the rear 120mm area, whose function is to expel hot air.

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The Antec Signature S10 offers great possibilities in cooling, since it allows us to install from a billet heatsink (Noctua NH-D15, Raijintek Tesis, Cryorig R1 universal) to liquid cooling with 240/280 radiators (in the ceiling) and in the front 240/280 and 360 mm. Enough to cool a 140W processor and two graphics cards in SLI or CrossFireX.

conclusion

The Antec Signature S10 occupies the position of flagship among the boxes of the manufacturer Antec. We have a beautiful design, an aluminum structure, excellent cooling and one of the most interesting and innovative hard drive cabs on the market.

It allows us to install motherboards of any size: XL-ATX, E-ATX, ATX, mATX and ITX, we have 10 expansion slots to mount a multiGPU 3 or 4 Way SLI / CrossfireX system and an excellent management cable for all the wiring. of our team.

It also offers us the possibility of mounting an air cooling system or, if we want, liquid cooling with a 240/280 and another with measures of 240/280/360 mm. It is a joy!

Its price in store amounts to between 375 and 430 euros. It is a box for the most Siberian users and who want a tower for many years.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ BUILT IN ALUMINUM.	- IT HAS NO WINDOW.
+ EXCELLENT REFRIGERATION.	- HIGH PRICE
+ SPECTACULAR DESIGN.
+ LARGE HARD DISC CABIN
+ COMPATIBLE WITH GPU AND HIGH PERFORMANCE BASE PLATES.