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Antec P180 £59.99
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24-07-2007, 7:41 PM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
Very, its a nice case.
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24-07-2007, 7:57 PM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
its not as good as the p182,but for £20 less its a steal really.
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24-07-2007, 8:56 PM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
Very good price now they need to bring the antec fusion down to the same price lol
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24-07-2007, 9:55 PM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
So does this include PSU and cooling? Would I just need to buy a separate heatsink and fan and then I'm setup to run?
I'm going to be running 4GB RAM and a Q6600 overclocked to 2.8GHz, would this supposed built in cooling and PSU be ok for it?
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25-07-2007, 9:27 PM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
afaik it never comes with a PSU but does come loaded with fans.
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26-07-2007, 9:42 AM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
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...but does come loaded with fans.
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That's what worries me; what sort of noise output are we looking at here? I appreciate it's designed for htpc use but wouldn't mind knowing a bit more... 
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26-07-2007, 12:38 PM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
Just built up a server in one of these cases yesterday, for the money it's very nice. Cable routing is a little strange, PSU is at the bottom rear and HDDs are at the bottom front - there's a 120mm fan between them so you need to route the power up and over. Cables got very close in my case, but made enough space so they don't get caught. There's a plastic slider to trap the cables in place on both sides, which you screw down to keep in place.
The three Antec fans have L/M/H switches on them, at low the noise level isn't too bad but definitely noticable. It's definitely NOT an HTPC case, but for Desktop/Server use it's very good indeed.
If it wasn't for the weight of the full steel chassis I'd consider replacing my Chenbro Gaming Bomb 2 with one .
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26-07-2007, 8:31 PM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
i have read reviews which say on the slow setting the fans are barely audible,even up close.
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27-07-2007, 6:56 AM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
i have one of these cases from new @£99.99[ its worth ev penny ] buy a nice quiet psu [ mines antec too ] i took out all the fans , apart from 1 x120mm [the thin one , not the big one ] , put a zalman cooler on my cpu , and you can hardly hear it run , it gets to 34 deg c in summer . my spec is a lil old now , but still powerful . gigabyte k8n sli , 4200x2 processor , x800gto graphics , 2gb corsair xms3200 ram , sata2 160gb western digital ,160gb maxtor ext hdd, 2 x sonydvdrw and 19inch gnr widescreen
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27-07-2007, 12:29 PM
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Re: Antec P180 £59.99
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i have read reviews which say on the slow setting the fans are barely audible,even up close.
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The one in the other room says otherwise, perhaps your favoured reviewers are hard of hearing? 
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