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ANTEC P182 EU PC CASE BLACK | 
 enlarge | Brand: Antec
Category: CE
Buy New: £82.00
New (12) from £82.00
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 6146
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 35.3
Dimensions (in): 248 x 118.1 x 236.2
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: 0761345-09182-4
Model: 0761345-09182-4
UPC: 761345091824
EAN: 5213468435160
ASIN: B000QF8XAS
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Mid tower | | • | 21 cm x 51 cm x 52 cm | | • | Gun metal black | | • | Europe | | • | 2 x Hi-Speed USB ï 1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ï 1 x microphone - input ï 1 x headphones - output |
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Product Description
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good concept, poor implementation September 3, 2008
J. Hotchkiss
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The so-called Super Advanced Mini Tower, despite receiving awards and great reviews from a variety of independent sites, is actually rather poor.
It has some great concepts - a dual air chamber with the power supply and hard drives at the bottom, and the rest of the PC separate above barring cables, built-in exhaust out of the top of the PC, easily removable hard drive bays.
What really marrs this otherwise great case is that all of these great concepts don't work properly. The separate power supply chamber has a central support that cannot be removed, with a fan on it. This fan is the only way to move air through the chamber, but must be removed to fit almost any power supply. Large power supplies will probably not fit at all. The lack of a fan means that your power supply had best move some air or your hard drives will overheat.
Worse, if you can fit your power supply, you may find that the cables simply do not reach, given the usual expectation of the motherboard and power supply being much closer. Antec have at least provided decent wiring support in that you can route wires around the back of the PC as well as over the front, which I found to be a necessity to allow the 12V CPU power connection.
The fans that exhaust heat in the main chamber are screwed directly to the frame, with linked speed controls screwed into the chassis. The top fan isn't even properly screwed in, it has two screws and two clips, making it impossible to replace with any other mounting. The fans are awful, and you'll want to replace them if you value your quiet PC, yet the case makes this awkward to impossible.
The removable hard drive bays are great, but the equivalent cage for a floppy disk is fixed, and almost impossible to get at. Finally, for reasons that are a mystery, Antec opted to have a swing door on the front of the case, that obscures the power button, and is fragile & easily bent or broken unless you're careful. A normal fronting would have been far more sturdy.
Finally, simply put, the case is too small. The upper removable hard drive bay has to be removed to accommodate almost any modern graphics card, and with a full size ATX motherboard, you'll find yourself scraping and cursing (and probably bleeding) to get everything to fit. Though I don't personally own one, I'd imagine that the taller tower-style heatsinks that are popular with the newer processors would struggle to fit.
All in all, some great ideas, and if you are going for a low power micro ATX PC, you'll have no trouble, but I'd not recommend it for a normal modern ATX-based PC.
 You can put bit's in it. August 18, 2008
AfterTheEvent (Belfast)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a physically large case and is a comparatively easy build,
Cable routing and tidying is well catered for and the internal compartmentalization seems like a good thing. In practice though the case is not actually much quieter or cooler than a regular steel case. Generally construction is good but not up to the standards Antec maintained just a few years ago.
Sharp edges: there are too many inside the case - take care or visit casualty for a few stitches.
Removing the steel filler plates from the case was awkward and fitting a floppy drive an exercise in frustration, and freeing hemoglobin. The floppy bay is low on the case if you sit at a desk with the case on the floor it's awkward to access. In the end I got a card-reader that fitted in a 5.25" bay.
The spring rails used to mount optical drives are lighter, and brittle compared to those used in the Sonata 1. In the original Sonata spare rails were clipped into the 5.25" bay blanks for storage. Why was such a good idea not carried into the P182?
Removing fan filters - opening a door to access the filters is a good idea but they ain't all that easy to remove. You can't get a finger around the edge and they seem a bit fragile. Vacuum in place ? Risky.
My main gripe though is the hinge and grill system on the front. It's plastic and not very robust. It's easily broken while open. This isn't actually a bad case, but it just makes 3 stars in my opinion.
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