Antec P182 Black Midsize Tower

Quiet and sturdy case

Strengths: Quiet, Cable management, Sturdy

Weakness: PSU chamber needs more room, especially for larger PSUs

With the power supply located at the bottom, it helps reduce turbulence to lower noise from the PSU fan. And with grommets in the hard drive cages, the vibration from the hard drives is reduced, together making the case very quiet overall. Being able to route the PSU cables behind the motherboard tray is a nice touch and makes the cables organized, but it could use a bit more room especially for...

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Great case, but not perfect

Strengths: Well thought out design. Silenced my hard drives. Behind-the-scenes cable routing helps with airflow.

Weakness: Expensive. Not as quiet has I hoped. Need newer PSU with long power cables. Tricky installation. Have to open front door to turn on computer.

I upgraded to this case mainly to try to quiet my system, and secondly to help with cooling. While it did help with both, it wasn't as good as I was expecting. First, the hard drive cages are awesome for quieting your hard drives. The rubber grommets make all the difference. I have 2 Western Digital Raptors which are super-noisy, but after mounting them in this case, they are barely noticable. My...

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Great Case, Quiet & Cool

Strengths: Wonderful design, very quiet out of the box, large case

Weakness: None, some things to be aware of though

I replaced an old Xblade case with a new P182 Tower. Given I build my own machines I had a pretty long list of requirements for my case most notably the ability to keep the machine cool, ensure low noise levels and provide good spatial utilization for all of my components. The P182 is the best computer case I have had the fortune of building a new desktop with. It is truly a beautiful case and...

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Awesome Case!

Strengths: Great looking, cable management makes for great airflow, easy access to lots of places inside, fantastic workmanship, quiet operation

Weakness: You'll need a PSU with long cables to utilize the cable management design, pretty heavy, larger CPU heatsinks may not fit without removing the overhead case fan

I am very impressed with this case. I used to be a fan of another Japanese case maker that used only aluminum in their construction (and ran for twice as much), but Antec has sold me with this. There are some very minor gripes, as listed above, but nothing is perfect. Actually, this is the closest to perfection I have ever seen a case get.

Super Quiet Case.

Strengths: Looks great, quiet, good cooling.

Weakness: Very large and heavy. Expensive.

This is a great case if you're going to spend some money on a case. It's really quiet and because it's large it's very easy to work inside of it. If you have all the fans set on low it is whisper quiet. It's easily the best case I've ever owned but it's also costs about four times any other case I've ever bought (and it doesn't include a power supply) and weighs twice as much. Though, it has been...

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Great looking, quiet case.

Strengths: Quiet. Cable routing behind the motherboard, makes for a clean PC if the PSU cabling allows. Fan control on the back. Looks awesome, especially with the finish of the P182. Nice upper HD tray.

Weakness: Heavy. Because of the layout some PSUs don't have long enough cables. The space behind the motherboard is a bit cramped for thick ATX power cables. Little more expensive than most cases.

I already own the P180 and several friends of mine own the P180B. The quality is very nice. Although the doors are known to breaking if abused, so just be careful with them and don't slam them open and shut on a daily basis. The finish is very nice on the p182, to be quite honest I like it more than the P180B. Overall the case is very nice, especially if you're looking for a sleek looking clean...

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Classy Case

Strengths: Heavy duty, well made, nice silver and black look. Plenty of space, and excellent attention to detail.

Weakness: A bit pricey.

Excellent product, strongly made for long lasting computing. Cable management most doable, but studying your available componets, and working the cable routing slowing to better hide applicable wire to enhance computer venting and cooling of your video cards and various componets. If using more than two hard drives and two CD ROMs, and one floppy drive the case will become a bit full. If building...

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Good case

Strengths: A lot of room, sturdy, nice finish, good cooling, quiet

Weakness: No eSATA connector, not aluminum = heavy, poor component alignment

Overall very good case. The real complain though is that quality is not what Antec used to be. PSU bracket is about 1-2mm to narrow/shallow. Drive bays and other case components are poorly aligned, you have to push and press here and there to make screws fit properly.

Antec P182 case

Strengths: 3 stock cooling fans with variable speed controls, very quiet with fans on low setting, easy to run wiring behind motherboard allowing better air flow from front to back

Weakness: middle accessory fan will not fit if you install the Geforce 8800 GTX graphics card (it's too long)

It would have been nice for the three stock fans to come with an optional connector directly to the motherboard to allow automatic speed control (currently they only have molex connectors). I purchased three Antec 120mm fans for this case which all came with the accessory plugs for monitoring fan speed at least.

Once again Antec delivers

Strengths: extremely well thought out and designed, very sturdy, near silent, suitable for silent PC with the right components

Weakness: price, but not really when considering the value

I hade previously bought a Antec case for a HTPC and was impressed by the well thought out design and all the attention paid to detail. So it was a no brainer to get another Antec case for my new workstation. I was not disappointed. Again, extremely well thought out design and layout, such as: cables are run behind the motherboard to reduce clutter and keep airflow unobstructed. A lot of...

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