The Antec series of their own performance one cases for the most it is a more of aesthetics and function reasons of the case that really helps it to be a more of a high prized case. For the most, of the performance one cases the previous ones, in which are the P180 cases, are a great bet for a normal and a practical case for most users, with the use of air filters to limit the problem of dust coming the case and an almost a box made out of aluminium that separated PSU, motherboard and the two 5.25in and 3.2in drive and optical bays, for a more organized placement of the case.
For the refurbished look of the P182 is the same style P180 design, with the case having a full brushed aluminium and a plastic aluminium layer, you would expect a less or no feel of vibrations made by loosely fitted fans or high rpm fans. With a front door of the case having a magnet to hold when closed and the 2cm clearance to have in making them as vents for it to take air in when the door is closed. For the thumb screws coming in all of the drive bays and the motherboard, the HDD bays are removed by the side and moved in a sideway fashion. For they can hold up to three hard-drives each on the top and bottom bays with two cooling fans in the front to push the air flow to the HDD bay. With a maximum of about five fans you can have in the P182, with the additional of having a watercooling block compliant on to the side of the case with a back panel speed control for an easy switch to high and then to low when the cooling factor is no that necessary.
With the case design to have a triple cooling design, the chambers as they are called, have two separate inlet and outlet that cool specific parts the bottom has to cool the three bottom HDD’s and the PSU then out, the front cooling the Three top HDD, then the motherboard and going up or back of the case. For the noise that the total of five relatively small fans make is relatively quiet is some cases, but you can still hear the whirring sound inside the case.
With keeping the board and other parts of the case cool is not bad for the start the CPU going in a hot 66degrees on a really hot piece of CPU we can find, and it is a Quad core QX6850 and the graphics with the hotter 4870 in crossfire is not bad in the idle going with 38 degrees and then 50 degrees in load for the others the Hard-drive in RAID 0 with two in each of the bays top and bottom, is a good enough 30 degrees in use. For the most it was a hot day for me when using it. Probably using in a cool area you can have a few 5 to up most 10 degrees off the overall temp of all items placed.
For the most is can be a good case for the most with the better use of filters and also the plastic vibration dampener, it can be a good practical case for some, they would like it with the choice of a clean reflective cover.
