These are my annoyances about the P18* designs that I hope they'll address in future designs: 1. There should be at least 15 mm more space between the bottom of the motherboard and the ceiling of the bottom compartment because some new motherboards have 3 PCI-E X16 slots and there is now just too li...

You're all right about it being best to have a fan at the intake and a fan at the exhaust. That was my initial configuration but I forgot to mention that in my P182 case, I have 2 IcyBox fanless trays at the top that rely on airflow through the small gaps when hard disks are inserted. Using the opti...

This reminds me of the SilenX fans. They are silent a first but all of them turn noisy in a short period of time. It's just a case of poorly designed bearings. My favorite fans are Acoustifans with dual ball bearings. Scyth S-Flex's are good to but I think the ball bearing fans will outlast them.

Some modern silent cases have 2 12cm exhaust fans (one at the top rear and one at the top) and a separate chamber for the PSU at the bottom. The Antec P182 is such a case. When I think about a few factors in a silent case, this doesn't seem like an optimal combination to me. I think a better set up ...

Most fans in real PC applications have to push air under resistance. Most cases have filters that resist air flow. Other devices such as hard disk enclosures usually have very small openings through which air must be sucked. It would be nice to see silent fans tested under resistance too because the...

The heatpipe layout in this case is better designed than that of the mCubed HFX case in which all CPU pipes are routed to 1 of the 4 large side blocks.

I've don't know how much heat an uncooled SSD disk would create though compared to 2.5" HDD in this case.