Antec Mini P180 Case

by Antec

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 8.3 x 17.1 inches ; 20.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 25.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001450OMO
• Item model number: Mini P180
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

The P180 is truly a revolutionary breakthrough in case design. Ease-of-use, sleek design and Antec's reputation for quality make the MiniP180 worthy of being the first in a new category we call the Advanced Super MiniTower. 5 x 3.5 Internal Drive Bays 3 x 5.25 External Drive Bays 4 Expansion Slots Motherboard compatibility - mATX / MicroATX Front I/O Ports - 2 x USB, eSATA, Audio Approximate Unit Dimensions - 17.1"(H) x 8.3"(W) x 17.2"(D) Approximate Unit Weight - 20.9 lbs / 9.5 kg

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars nice little home-server case, October 15, 2008

By 

Benjamin Staffin (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Antec Mini P180 Case (Personal Computers)

I got this case to build a small home fileserver in, and it's worked out nicely for me. It's a bit pricey, but the construction quality reflects that - the design is well thought-out and integrated, there are no sharp edges to catch your cables or fingers on, and the sound deadening is effective. I took my components out of an antec Aria case (i.e. a small cube-shaped case) and put them in this one (plus a new power supply and 4 additional hard drives...) and the end result runs significantly quieter and cooler than before. I'm happy.

The minor downsides:
- You might end up needing longer cables than you expect because of the unusual internal layout.
- There's a good chance that your optical drive won't fit into the top 5.25" bay where you want it to. It's a short bay.
- Pricy case, _and_ you need to supply your own power supply. I'm fine with that, but the whole setup is not cheap.
- Despite the overall excellent cable routing arrangement inside, the power cables for the top and rear fans dangle awkwardly into the middle of the case. You have to get creative to keep them out of the way.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quality Case, December 14, 2010

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Dan - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Antec Mini P180 Case (Personal Computers)

First off, I give this case 5 stars. I give Amazon 3 stars. This following paragraph is about Amazon's pricing, skip it if you just want case info. I bought this from Amazon for $109 and the expected ship date was in 3-5 weeks. Before they had shipped the product, 1 week later, the price lowered to $99. I'm thinking, "hey wait a minute, my order hasn't even shipped and I'm being charged a higher price". Well Amazon's policy in that case is to rebuy the item. Which would set me back an extra 1-2 weeks(checked with it in cart). I decided $10 was worth 7-14 days. Then Amazon decides that one week later the product is worth $79.99. My case had still not shipped, but inevitably the wait would be longer should I rebuy. I wanted to put my system together for winter break, but $30 cheaper??!?!?!?! really? (tldr; price changed, amazon doesn't care)

Now to the case, if you haven't seen the case outside of pictures, this case is bigger(wider) than you're picturing in your head. It's not going to sit gloriously on your desk, unless your desk is irregularly large, or your monitor is huge(>25"), or the presence of your room is so grand and spacious that it would fit right in like Texas. It is also heavy, which is something I like. It weighs somewhere near ~30lbs with parts in it. Its not going to fall over.

You can put a large heatsink in it. I put a Thermalright Ultra 120 /w fan in it and feel like I neglected the space available. Remember there is a 200mm fan right about this area. You can fit almost any heatsink inside this case. The two fans that come with the case are decent. However my 200mm fan makes an audible clicking noise at speeds above low. The other fan is silent. I ended up filling the two other fan slots with fans and pulling out the hard drive bays. I don't need to often turn the speed of the fans up, so this is a minor nuisance.

With the drive bays out I fit an nvidia gtx 570 with no problem. I used a corsair psu 650 watts, and it slightly overlaps the dust filter covering the air intake on the bottom of the case. I can't open the dust filter to clean it, but I imagine I can turn the case on its side and wipe it down.

Make sure your dvd/cd/blu ray drive is equal to or shorter than 6.7 inches if you want it to fit in the top bay. Otherwise it runs into the fan guard.

The case comes with cable management supplies and of course extra screws and such. No case speaker though

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars p180 mini, September 15, 2010

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Ryan (Clovis, California United States) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Antec Mini P180 Case (Personal Computers)

Pros: Great quality, great looking (inside and out), and great cable management.

Downside: If you are using a larger graphics card (5850 or larger) you will need to remove the lower hard drive bay. You are then left with 3 3.5 and 3 5.25 bays. If you plan to put an SSD in it while you have a large graphics card installed, you have to put the SSD into a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter and then a 3.5 to 5.25 adapter because the included 2.5 to 3.5 adapter will only make the SSD fit into the lower hard drive cage that had to removed due to the graphics card size. So make sure your SSD comes with a 2.5 to 3.5. Also, you could cut off part of the lower hard drive cage to make the card fit.

I personally would buy this case again because of the great quality and the attention to detail Antec has put into this case.