P182 Special Edition - One of the best cases gets better
by Joshua Buss on April 12, 2007 1:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Installation
To finish our look at the special edition of the P182, here are a few pictures from the installation of our new test bed.
A plastic grill is included with the case to prevent objects from covering up the rear top fan and thus render it useless. Also notice the switches for the two fans mentioned earlier.
The main hard drive cage is simple and easy to use, and plenty of long screws are provided to make installing the drives worry-free.
Optical drives and other 5.25" drives are installed with rails, which certainly work well. Enough rails are provided for all four bays to be filled.
In addition to holding two sleds for more hard drives, the other drive cage also has a small accessory box on its backside for storing extra case screws and whatnot. Nice.
A picture of our test bed almost totally installed once again shows the adequate but not really ample room inside the P18x series of cases. It's a case that's really just as big as it needs to be to hold a moderate desktop configuration. Thankfully, it is big enough for large coolers like the popular Zalman CNPS 9500.
To finish our look at the special edition of the P182, here are a few pictures from the installation of our new test bed.
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A plastic grill is included with the case to prevent objects from covering up the rear top fan and thus render it useless. Also notice the switches for the two fans mentioned earlier.
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| Click to enlarge |
The main hard drive cage is simple and easy to use, and plenty of long screws are provided to make installing the drives worry-free.
 |
| Click to enlarge |
Optical drives and other 5.25" drives are installed with rails, which certainly work well. Enough rails are provided for all four bays to be filled.
 |
| Click to enlarge |
In addition to holding two sleds for more hard drives, the other drive cage also has a small accessory box on its backside for storing extra case screws and whatnot. Nice.
 |
| Click to enlarge |
A picture of our test bed almost totally installed once again shows the adequate but not really ample room inside the P18x series of cases. It's a case that's really just as big as it needs to be to hold a moderate desktop configuration. Thankfully, it is big enough for large coolers like the popular Zalman CNPS 9500.
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crimson117 - Thursday, April 12, 2007 - link
I believe a hole in your otherwise very well-done review is that you used a mATX board, which does not push the case's internal capacity to the limit.I have a P180 and use a regular ATX board (Asus A8V Deluxe), and let me tell you - it gets VERY crowded down at the bottom of the motherboard...
I have: power supply cabling coming up from the bottom, a PCI TV Tuner card installed in the lowest PCI slot, the front-panel case cables coming in to the motherboard port, and the lower hard disk's cables coming up to the motherboard.
It's very very crowded and difficult to work with.
I personally would not use a full sized board again with the P180; I'd find another classy case or just use a mATX board.
Johnspree - Saturday, December 26, 2009 - link
To all of you who wants to build a new pc with this Case, Antec P182. I got one my self and I think I have a lot of rooms to work with. All you have to do is run most of you cables thru the other side of the case.JoshuaBuss - Thursday, April 12, 2007 - link
Certainly in my experience this case has one of the best potentials for building the quietest PC possible..