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Antec P193
- Thread starter dook43
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I can tell you with absolute certainty that heat sinks like the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme won't fit. I've got the P190 which is almost the same case and even without the side fan installed the heat sink prevents me from using the side panel. I have a long thread and detailed review of the P190 somewhere on the forum here. It includes my complaints about the case in general and though Antec addressed some points with the P193 they didn't address most of them. The only one they really resolved was the complaint about the PSU bay. Realistically the P193 needs to be widened about an inch or so. Maybe more if they want to move the fan back to the inside of the panel instead of the outside which is what they did with the 193. (Looks retarded in my opinion.)
Only couple millimeters lower so if TRUE doesn't fit it's doubtfull that Noctua fits any better. (or any other highest end tower heatsink)
Even without that cable management space behind motherboard tray 20,5 cm width wouldn't have too much space.
Well... excluding depth it's still midi tower like P18x.
With retarding starting from front door who'll notice side?
Only couple millimeters lower so if TRUE doesn't fit it's doubtfull that Noctua fits any better. (or any other highest end tower heatsink)
Even without that cable management space behind motherboard tray 20,5 cm width wouldn't have too much space.
Well... excluding depth it's still midi tower like P18x.
With retarding starting from front door who'll notice side?
True. The front door on back is ugly as hell on the P193. I don't like it at all.
Just what kind case you're looking for and for what?
For that price there ain't any spacious Lian Lis (unless it's extremely high discount) and butt ugly HAF again is entire antithesis of P193 by being more like frame holding holes on their places than case and as quiet as appartment house without walls between neighbours.
And even Lian Li has taken habit of making ugly front to many cases...
Something full tower with ample air cooling capacity for 4.0ghz i7, ample room for video cards and no video card interference with installed hard disk drives. Noise is important, but is a secondary concern and can be addressed by getting quieter fans.
Steel or aluminum, I don't care.
I prefer being able to access all areas of case without other components being in the way...
Lian Li A71 is quite much more spacious than P193 and as classic Lian Li looks lot better than "third edition" Antecs.
At stock lightness of aluminum prevents reaching full potential but thanks to soft HDD mounting, no direct noise escape paths and controlled airflow design itself is second to none in silencing friendliness so with mass damping it can be made lot quieter.
Door lacking A70 has front panel attached with spring clips instead of four screws for faster access to air filters but it also has direct noise escape path to leak out intake fan and component noises. (door muffles intake fan noise by "nearly 200rpm")
