Antec P160 Case & Tagan 480W U22 Power Supply.. Any Good?

[farooqm]

Antec P160 Case - £69.99
Tagan 480W U22 Power Supply - £63.44

Any good... or do you reckon I can do better value for money with something else ??

[MD]

I have the P160, whilst a very good case, the new P180 is much improved and can be picked up for only about £20 more....

Matt.

[farooqm]

Ive read the reviews on both.... but info from someone whos used one is best. What annoys you about the P160 ?? This might change my mind....

[MD]

it tends to be quite noisy with the full system running, I am trying to get my hands on a P180, but no luck yet, after all there is alot of soundproofing built into that design and the thermal channels should work well. With no top fan in the P260 you tend to get and awful lot of heat stuck at the top of the case.

I am running pretty high end kit in mine, but, I would still go for the P180, I have heard the noise level improvements are much much better....

[farooqm]

Cheers for the response...

Hmmmm... think ive got some more reading to do. Back to reading reviews. I feel a change of mind coming on.

Anyone got any hand on experience of the Antec P180 Case??

[GizmoStu]

I've got a P160 and I'm mostly very happy with it. The only thing I don't like about it is that the front 120mm fan mounting was too narrow for my Panaflo fan, so I had to use the supplied one instead. Otherwise its a great case. However, if the P180 had been around at the time I got my case I would certainly have gone for that instead.

[nez]

Power supply wise its a very good choice, i have that Tagen psu and i love it:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=179312

If u can strech another £7 then the easycon verison would be even better as u only need to plug in the bits you use and it has a 120mm fan for more airflow and quiter operation
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=241236

Nez

[amjedm]

Cheers for the response...

Hmmmm... think ive got some more reading to do. Back to reading reviews. I feel a change of mind coming on.

Anyone got any hand on experience of the Antec P180 Case??

No first hand experience, but probably the most thorough review (actually two of them) can be found on Silentpcreview.com.

There is an issue with some psu atx cables not being long enough to reach motherboards when mounted in the P180. Check out forums at above site.

Edit: have been thinking of buying it myself but can't justify the cost as I have one of the best cases at the moment (similar to the Akasa Eclipse).

[Tak]

I've had a P180 for a few weeks now, and can highly recommend it. Coupled with good quality quiet components, you'll have a very quiet system with excellent cooling.

Bear in mind that it won't work miracles, if you want the best out of it you'll have to put the effort into routing the cables properly and experimenting with different fan and drive mounting configurations for optimum cooling and noise reduction.

I didn't have any problems with the PSU cable length but there are many PSU/MB combinations that won't work due to insufficient cable length. You can however buy extension cables to solve this. I'm using a Seasonic S12-430 with an Asus P4P800SE.

Read the extensive 3 articles on SCPR as amjedm suggested, then read the forums for some in-depth first-hand information. There's also a thread over at OCUK which may be helpful.

[farooqm]

Cheers for the extra info.... been reading the one at Silentpcreview.com, will then turn to OCUK ..... im a sucker for reading info.. (wish I was a bit more impulsive sometimes, and just go out and buy things instead of 'researching for ages 1st' .. lol)