Antec Mini P180 *Rebuild*

Just found my parcel (with my dvd drive/sata cable in it) soaked with water around the back of my house. I did check a few days ago to see if it had been left there so it must have been delivered recently. So far so good with the stuff inside, though it was really cold and the plastic bags were wet, the dvd drive appeared dry. Installed it, and it is working fine...so far :mad::rolleyes:
 
Keeping the thread alive, found this on another forum, its sort of what i want to do but i want the acrylic on the inside of the case, ie not showing.
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Conan257 said:
The main issue with putting a window inside is the 5mm+ depth of the side panel.. So instead of seeing the perspex outside, you'll see lots of case and in inset window...

I'm hoping to find someone who can cut me a window hole and perspex the same size to get around this issue.
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Been investigating it, albeit with a competitor and apparantly the side panel is thicker than most steel cases but they said there shouldnt be a problem. I basically just want a sqaure/rectangle about the size of the motherboard, ie just showing the motherboard and not the hard drives or what have you.

rough outline:
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Found this on the Antec Shop/store website:
200mm Radiator
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Take your Antec Twelve Hundred gaming case to new levels of cooling with the 200mm Radiator, specially designed by Antec for the Twelve Hundred. The 200mm Radiator fits seamlessly beneath the Twelve Hundred’s top-mounted Big Boy 200™ fan, and enables you to install a premium internal water cooling system. Made of aluminum and composite aluminum, the large 200mm Radiator possesses superior heat dissipation and a massive surface area, allowing it to cool even the hottest system components. From your CPU to video cards, from chip sets to memory, Antec’s 200mm Radiator ensures that your valuable components remain safe and cool no matter what the conditions. Make the switch to water cooling with Antec’s 200mm Radiator, and take your Twelve Hundred gaming case to the next level.

Material Aluminum + composite Aluminum
Tubing Size 1/2”
Dimension 280 x 184 x 71mm (LxWxH)
Weight 618 gram
Accessory
2pcs ½” Springs Clamp
2pcs 6-32x5 screws
Volume 0.323L / 323 cc

OUR PRICE: € 49,95
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I am guessing that this will fit on the mini p180 seeing as it also uses a 200mm fan for the top exhaust.
 
chakib said:
heheh, i just padded my case with some Acoustipack material! quite good i say! that along with how padded the case is originally i'm quite happy. just bought some fans. a mixture of noctuas for high pressure cooling and some nexus for case fans.

anyone know if there are any aftermarket coolers proposed for the 4870x2? its a pain in the bum to cool and keep quiet. even the 8.10 drivers dont do much to control fan well!

so an idea. how does a small water loop around the GPU only sound? with a little mod even the RAD needn't be that large.
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Is it really that loud? my 8800gts is very very quiet...i guess you could do a small gpu water loop, would have to mount the rad on the bottom front 120mm fan or something, as for the pump... its going to be tight :p
 
Update: doing some major cable management, getting a few little bits from ocuk, cable to convert the 200mm for use with my fan controller, Scythe Quiet Drive 3.5" Internal HDD Silencer so i can mount the hdd in the bottom, a new cpu cooler. Im then going to mount a spare sharkoon silent eagle 2000 in the top intake (because i will remove the hdd cage).

This will mean i will have on 2 intake fans on the front, one to the cpu and one to the cpu, and also have a quieter if not silent hard drive :D

Ordered last night at midnight, already been dispatched :p
 
Got "carded" today by dhl and i was there...just arranged a redelivery for tomorrow.

Got these to come:
Scythe Quiet Drive 3.5" Internal HDD Silencer
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Akasa AK-CB423-ADPT 4 - 3pin adapter cable

And a intel e6600 ready from my old job, should give me a bit more grunt for my system. Granted it works as i havent tested it on my pc yet.

EDIT: cleaned out dust filter on the intake fan i have at the moment. First time cleaning and its done a good job stopping dust into the case. I would say just as good as the 300 but you dont even have to open up the case to do so :p
 
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Disaster, this Scythe Quiet Drive 3.5" Internal HDD Silencer simply wont fit into the case, it is just too long. I expected it to be about the size of a dvd drive but it is more like 7 or 8 inches long. Kindly OCUK said i could return it to them for a refund (thanks ocuk - your the best). :o
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Be warned :mad:

Other than that, here is the so called cable management i tried to do. My idea originally would be to route the 24pin/4pin connector behind the graphics card through the little gap but this was bit of a far cry. Any ideas on how i could do it better i would be most grateful. ;)

E6600 + arctic cooling freezer pro 7 are working perfectly. :D

Doing a few loops of 3dmark06 on my new e6600:
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Later on that day, i was pretty much finished:
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