Antec Mini P180

Zitat: As usual, Antec´s design is great and the compact dimensions should appeal to anyone wanting a small PC.

Zitat: The Antec Mini P180 keeps up the tradition of being an awesome looking case just like its bigger brother. And besides the good looks it also shares the same cooling advantages as well. The included two fans are enough to suit many peoples’ need granted one of them is 200 mm in diameter. It offers a large amount of space for people who needs a lot of hard drives or other storage devices. And if you need to do disk-to-disk copying there are even three 5.25 available, something not seen in many mATX cases. Any pro we’ve seen with the Mini P180 was its cable management possiblities. I have built many cases of this size and managing the cables was terrible. Antec definitely solved this problem in the Mini. I for one felt the Mini P180 was pretty quiet overall. When I say overall this is when the larger fan is set at low setting. Anything above this did give a nice spinning noise. This noise isn’t loud at all but it can be heard from a short distance. When the large fan was on low and the other fan set at any setting, the volume was pretty quiet as well. The Mini is capable of housing the biggest video cards even the like of x2 models. And if you are lucky enough to have a SLI or Crossfire compatiable mATX motherboard and wish to take advantage of it, you would have to remove both HDD cages. This isn’t really a problem as you can adapt the 5.25” bays to 3.5” ones. To answer the question from the introduction of this review, the Mini P180 is not a LAN box as it is too heavy and slightly awkward to carry around. The case is about twenty five pounds empty now add about ten pounds worth of components. Yeah, you would not want to lug that around. At $130 the Mini P180 can be had. Not too bad for a quality case.

Zitat: Antec cases usually feature clever design touches, and it has worked hard to bring these to its mATX case. The Mini P180 features some clever ideas when it comes to noise reduction, and the build quality is superb. Its size means assembly can be a bit of

Zitat: The Antec Mini P180 keeps up the tradition of being an awesome looking case just like its bigger brother. And besides the good looks it also shares the same cooling advantages as well. The included two fans are enough to suit many peoples’ need granted one of them is 200 mm in diameter. It offers a large amount of space for people who needs a lot of hard drives or other storage devices. And if you need to do disk-to-disk copying there are even three 5.25 available, something not seen in many mAT