Quite frankly the P183's internals look exactly like my P180B's after I modified it a bit Good job there, Antec. The front on the other hand is just terrible, the holes on the door and the goddamn see-through 5,25" covers... What were they thinking?

Eee failage.. Funny to understand in all of a sudden that those things aren't small OR crazy cheap anymore

Well the heatsinks on the PSU arn't live, everything mounted on them are on non-conductive pads... so even if the GFX card touched them there wouldn't be a problem. WROOOOONG. Atleast all PSUs I've measured have 115 volts on the heatsink of the primary side. It's true that the fan shroud is made of...

P182 not taking huge SLI-setups is just a matter of drilling out a couple of rivets.. see the update on http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47294 I can't really tell if P182 can be modified similarily, but atleast my P180B can take just about as many cards as I ever get... Also the ...

I sense a huge amount of dampening mat bought from Biltema.. I like the thick stuff (30 mm) but can't really tell if the 10 mm stuff is any good.

So much potential, so MEH result.. Too bad. Normal ATX-layout, fan holes all over the place... Yeah well, I guess if the material is the main thing then it's OK, but I don't get it TBH.

I did read some of the first comments through, but then stuff seemed to get out of hand too badly so I just skipped straight to the end. First of all, they cost only $199, for that price you can't really expect too much from active speakers. For that price I'm comparing them to PC-speakers rather th...

Here's one case that might fit your description: http://metku.net/index.html?path=reviews/gmc-r-2-toast/index_eng It isn't too deep, it take full ATX power supplies and motherboards and shouldn't be too expensive - if you can find one from somewhere. The build quality is far from impressive though...

It still looks better than two acryl sheets supported from the corners with threaded rods...


Though that's hardly an achievement

I'd rather just use a bit more powerful fans in the stock places if I were you. Side panel fans are always ugly and ruin the airflow patterns if you ask me.. If you have spare side panel and want to do something then rather make a nice window to it.

Problem being the lack of money. This is really a zero budget mod. I'd really love to have the money to buy atleast three GPs and a RAID controller and put them up in the secondary rig, but it simply costs too much. Also I'm heading to the army this summer so I won't be using the computers for half ...

It's hideous and why in the world would I want to pay for a couple of pneumatic(?) rams in a case? The side panel that opens in two parts might be fancy, but didn't Zalman already try that one?

For $450 there are just SOOOO many cases I'd rather have.

The build quality of my Tempest made me sad. click for more info . Sure you can stuff tons of HDDs in that thing and most likely they will remain cool as well, but it IS noisy and with bad luck stuffing the HDDs in the case will be literally a pain. I don't have experiences of Stackers, but I'd say ...

I have seen a couple of these already before, but this is quite likely the best executed one! Good job, the amount of cables in there is just crazy.

It's OK, but nothing special. I can't really tell the difference in noise levels or the nature of the noise it makes, but I wouldn't say it's something you should go hunting for. I'd rather have a third Nexus in there as well, but only happened to have two Nexus's and one Sharkoon around.

It's still there, just under the line you draw! I don't think it can be removed too easily as the lowest 5,25" bay is like a cage of its own. You could easily get rid of one 5,25" bay, but not that metal..

I continued on the main rig and here are some images. The goal was to make room for longer power supplies... http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8408/sivustapzr3.jpg Here's the modified frame. You can see that I have removed the divider wall from the bottom section and also the upper HDD cage and 3,5...

Getting one of these http://images.google.fi/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Afi%3Aofficial&hl=fi&q=nibbling+tool&btnG=Etsi+kuvia&gbv=2 is the easiest way to cut holes to metal. I have dremel, jig saw and steel scissors, yet a trusty nibbler is what I always use for cutting round holes to t...

...And then they will look like DVD-players :D (see the GMC AVC-7S for starters) As far as I'm concerned I prefer my HTPC-case simple and made of aluminum. So far I've only seen one VHS-player with an aluminum front bezel and it was a studio recorder worth 5 k€ or something. Not too serious proble...

The intake grills really caught my eye. Those things are SO restrictive and seeing you're using Noctuas... Not a good combination. I know it can be a pain to remove all the hardware from the case and cut the fan holes, but it's well worth it.

SLI imo really isn't that great since it's not terribly scalable. In other words, the cost isn't worth the benefit. You're probably better off getting a better single card instead depending on what you get. Now that you started on that, you might just as well tell us a single card that's significan...

So first you buy a case with the maximum amount of 5,25" bays and then try to figure ways to fill 'em up? Or is that the case that has two rigs in it?

tbh I can't come up with any reason why a rear panel fan would be preferrable in this case. Atleast I used a PSU with a side 120 mm fan in the review and it worked well. Passive PSUs may not like this case as there's no airflow whatsoever in the bottom chamber other than the PSU fan, but other than ...

I think I spoiled my pants after seeing three of the GP TB drives next to each other Looking good, I suppose it's mighty quiet as well, but I'd still like to see some sort of soft mount on those HDDs.

And it's not Bart in the screenshot

Ummh. AFAIK the P180 comes in black and silver whereas the P182 comes only in "Gun black" and the bling polished finish. The frames and features are more than less the same? The names don't make sense as it would be better to just sell P182Black, P182Silver and P182Gunmetal...

The only downside that I can see on these direct touch heatpipes is the fact that one solid block of copper is so much easier to make flat than three pipes and a milled block of aluminum. ( here are some images to demonstrate the flatness of the base) Despite the possibly uneven base there's no doub...

Moogles wrote: Can you tell me if the mini P180 has enough space for a fan controller? I have one on order but don't know if my fancontroller will fit. How much space is there between the drivebays and the door?

There seems to be just as much space as there is in P180B - 20 mm.

That tiny motherboard seems so out of place in such a huge case...

btw you have typo'd the powersupply on your sig.

Hello, just thought I'd show my two rigs here. Nothing too special, just slightly modified P180B and as far as I can tell, the first P180 Mini on the General Gallery-section. http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8645/hdtsasennettunapdn7.jpg The main rig includes E6750 @ 3 GHz (tried to get E8400, but ...

Interesting thread :) Kinda surprising to see that computers indeed can work for years untouched... Makes sense, but I just tend to change my hardware three times during that period. I had a P3 800 MHz rig running for a year. At start I was pretty paranoid about leaving it running alone, but even af...