Antec mini P180 "Black Ice" built complete!

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Freaking awesome! My mini P180 setup "Black Ice" is complete! This case is so farking amazing! I forgot how much I love Antec cases! I missed all the things my P180 had when I went to a Silverstone SG01F then an SG04B and now I'm back! It was so wonderful to have room again to work and do wiring and not be so cramped inside! The improvements to the performance series is just awesome. No more annoying HDD vibration or noise anymore! Steel chassis 4 eva! I may plan on replacing the 120mm's with something quieter down the road, but what is the question....

I farking love the wiring clean up I can do behind the motherboard panel, talk about a huge benefit to hide wires! What really sets this thing of is the black paint inside really gives it a "slick" look to it overall! The "Big Boy" fan moves a huge amount of air, at just even medium speed and its hardly audible! Its awesome to have fan filters once again to keep the dusty down to minimum and the lower PSU compartment one is a nice touch! And THANK GOD, a front panel eSATA port at long last!! Who the hell uses firewire anymore? Its about time Antec got that removed, now I can easily back up via my external HDD easily. I'm very happy to be back as an Antec Performance One owner!

 

[Phuey]

That is sweet!

 

[Marcam923]

WOW very nice! Everything is so clean.

 

[Itchyeyes]

How does it feel size wise? I've been considering moving to micro ATX from my Antec 900, and I had my eye on the SG04B. But I've seen some complaints about vibration with that one. My second choice was the mini p180, but my biggest reservation is that looking at the dimensions it seems like I might as well stick with ATX for all the space the mini P180 will save.

 

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How does it feel size wise? I've been considering moving to micro ATX from my Antec 900, and I had my eye on the SG04B. But I've seen some complaints about vibration with that one. My second choice was the mini p180, but my biggest reservation is that looking at the dimensions it seems like I might as well stick with ATX for all the space the mini P180 will save.

Ironic I had a SG04B before this case and I also had issues with vibration hence why I returned it it.

As far as the space it occupies vs a regular ATX case, yeah thats pretty accurate. It guess it boils down to if you want the benefits of a Performance One case in smaller package with less mobo options vs have the standard and basic ATX layout with more mobo options