Antec P180 Airflow

KeizzerSoze · 16 Mar 2007 at 14:19

Hi guys just got my Antec P180. first things first this is the most beautifull case i have ever owned its sooo sweet. secondly I wanted to know if you guys could give me some pointers on how to setup my airflow i have followed some guides on the net and they have all been OK but not good. any one got any good airflow setup that they wouldnt mind sharing?

gt_junkie · 16 Mar 2007 at 14:29

KeizzerSoze said:
Hi guys just got my Antec P180. first things first this is the most beautifull case i have ever owned its sooo sweet. secondly I wanted to know if you guys could give me some pointers on how to setup my airflow i have followed some guides on the net and they have all been OK but not good. any one got any good airflow setup that they wouldnt mind sharing?

Hi KeizzerSoze.

I had a P180 and it's airflow was good - just needed a lil careful tinkering!

Firstly i would remove the upper HDD bay totally. That will allow very direct and smooth airflow straight to your mobo's northbridge and your graphics card!

Your HDD's should then go in the lower compartment - the cabling to the HDD's will be restricted by the 38mm deep 120mm fan so remove that as it's only really needed if you bought a fanless silent power supply. Also, don't worry about the HDD's overheating - the airflow from your psu should be sufficient to cool them! I had 2 seagate barracudas in raid 0 and a tagan 580 psu pulling air through - they never went past 35 degrees C!

The blowhole on the top of the case is not needed so can be blanked off and the fan removed. The rear fan should stay in place as that is your exhaust point and an effective one it is!

Past that just make sure to keep everything as tidy as possible - zip ties, velcro loop, cable sleeving and adhesive cable loops are your friends so use them wherever possible!

Good luck with the build!

gt

KeizzerSoze · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:08

Ahh mate cheers for that im going to give that a go right now. thanks again

gt_junkie · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:15

KeizzerSoze said:
Ahh mate cheers for that im going to give that a go right now. thanks again

No prob fella!

Let me know how you get on!

gt

KeizzerSoze · 16 Mar 2007 at 16:51

just finished with your recomended setup and i gotta say its a lot cooler now. The temp has droped from 38c to 33c thats pretty amazing. cheers for info thanks a lot.

gt_junkie · 16 Mar 2007 at 18:27

KeizzerSoze said:
just finished with your recomended setup and i gotta say its a lot cooler now. The temp has droped from 38c to 33c thats pretty amazing. cheers for info thanks a lot.

Works real well doesn't it!

That's a great improvement too! Think mine dropped 3 degrees! :rolleyes:

Great job pal! :cool:

gt