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Antec P160
- Thread starter eli
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Nice case overall. I got mine and just transfered my computer from my LiLi 60, ended up transfering it back because I'm not ready to start the mod I have planned for the 160. Here's the summary of impressions:
Nice and big. Good amount more room over the P60.
Nice outside finish on the metal.
Plenty light, without anything in it obviously.
Two 120mm fans=badass.
Front USB/sound panel=nice, but I never got around to figuring out how to actually hook the damn thing up. Never did get the heat sensors to work, but I didn't try very hard. Cables are kinda short coming out of it, makes routing rough.
Build quality, good, but not LiLi good. Right side-panel is damn near impossible to get off, I wasn't sure if it actually did the first time I tried. The front is sticky too, and make of plastic
All the drive rails are a little tight, sometimes hard to ram an HD or CD in there.
Sideways HD bay......great idea, implementation bad. Ok, so you have your harddrives on rails. Cool, right? Then you find out that the lower HD bays are basically useless unless you have really long power cables. Then you have to undo the hard to remove right side to plug in the power cables and parallel cables. It was actually considerably harder than just using the standard ones. Made cable routing a bit easier, but pain in the ass overall.
Removable motherboard tray....better than not having one, oddly implemented. I like the slideout one, but having 120mm fans makes it worthwhile.
Blue LEDs on the front, cool.
There's some more stuff, but not really important.
I give it about an 8 out of ten. The Lili P60 would be a 9 or so.
Nice and big. Good amount more room over the P60.
Nice outside finish on the metal.
Plenty light, without anything in it obviously.
Two 120mm fans=badass.
Front USB/sound panel=nice, but I never got around to figuring out how to actually hook the damn thing up. Never did get the heat sensors to work, but I didn't try very hard. Cables are kinda short coming out of it, makes routing rough.
Build quality, good, but not LiLi good. Right side-panel is damn near impossible to get off, I wasn't sure if it actually did the first time I tried. The front is sticky too, and make of plastic
All the drive rails are a little tight, sometimes hard to ram an HD or CD in there.Sideways HD bay......great idea, implementation bad. Ok, so you have your harddrives on rails. Cool, right? Then you find out that the lower HD bays are basically useless unless you have really long power cables. Then you have to undo the hard to remove right side to plug in the power cables and parallel cables. It was actually considerably harder than just using the standard ones. Made cable routing a bit easier, but pain in the ass overall.
Removable motherboard tray....better than not having one, oddly implemented. I like the slideout one, but having 120mm fans makes it worthwhile.
Blue LEDs on the front, cool.
There's some more stuff, but not really important.
I give it about an 8 out of ten. The Lili P60 would be a 9 or so.
ok cool, so sounds like a cool case overall. I really do like the 120mm fans it must keep those HDDs cool. Also, how do you like the matching face plate? was it hard to install your drives with that? I personally want the Antec Sonata a little more, its just I hear it doesn't cool the hard drives to well. I just dont want my drives (WD Raptor, 120GIG IDE to fail after 1 month due to heat.
I was hoping for this to be more of a quite PC. If I were to get one of the more quiet Seagate IDE hard drives, would I even need a fan pushing air over them?
Later,
Eli
it must keep those HDDs cool. Also, how do you like the matching face plate? was it hard to install your drives with that? I personally want the Antec Sonata a little more, its just I hear it doesn't cool the hard drives to well. I just dont want my drives (WD Raptor, 120GIG IDE to fail after 1 month due to heat. I was hoping for this to be more of a quite PC. If I were to get one of the more quiet Seagate IDE hard drives, would I even need a fan pushing air over them?
Later,
Eli
Matching faceplates look cool, work very well. They stay attached to the bezel, so you can just pop the front off and install the CD drives as per normal. One of the better features, IMO. Very well done.
The front 120mm fan is installed in this weird slot dealie. I only had one 120 fan around, so it went in the back, never got to test the front one. I hear problems about it rattling a bit, can't confirm it. The rear one comes with some silicone mounting tabs, supposed to eliminate vibration from the fan. Seemed to work well, although the stock Antec fan didn't seem to move much air.
The front 120mm fan is installed in this weird slot dealie. I only had one 120 fan around, so it went in the back, never got to test the front one. I hear problems about it rattling a bit, can't confirm it. The rear one comes with some silicone mounting tabs, supposed to eliminate vibration from the fan. Seemed to work well, although the stock Antec fan didn't seem to move much air.
Mine rattles a little bit (fan), not noticable except when I have the fan down to almost nothing.
Lightweight
Feels low build quality, might be just being used to the 635SX I had before. That thing was a rock...
The rails seem to be really tight, prefer the old rails on the 635...
The LEDs up front are nice, 2x120mm is really cool.
The front faceplates took me a bit to figure out, but I figured it out and it works well. I need top pull my opti drives out and replace their LEDs
Never got the silcone mounting thingies on the rear fan to work, I never used that fan Went straight to a dif fan.
I tore up the front panel connectors, so I kind've screwed myself over on that...
Lightweight
Feels low build quality, might be just being used to the 635SX I had before. That thing was a rock...
The rails seem to be really tight, prefer the old rails on the 635...
The LEDs up front are nice, 2x120mm is really cool.
The front faceplates took me a bit to figure out, but I figured it out and it works well. I need top pull my opti drives out and replace their LEDs
Never got the silcone mounting thingies on the rear fan to work, I never used that fan
Went straight to a dif fan. I tore up the front panel connectors, so I kind've screwed myself over on that...