P180

TheDean · 17 Jan 2007 at 11:28

Antec P180 - Tips please!

Right,

My Antec P180 has arrived this morning and i'm looking for some tips please! This will be my first, full system build from scratch and I will no doubt be posting lots are questions which seem rather 'noobish'!
I will be ordering the rest of the gear on Thursday to arrive ready for a weekend of building, overclocking and testing

I have a mate coming round on Saturday to help me, but I'm really after a few 'pre-build' tips from you all please.

Components List
Antec P180 Case (black)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
DS3 Mobo
E6300 with Tuniq Tower & Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
2 x 1GB of Crucial Tenth Anniversary
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music

w3bbo · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:03

First tip, make your sig four lines or less otherwise you will feel the wrath of the mod police.

See my sig for a P180 adventure

harris1986 · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:15

i too am looking forward to delivery of my p180 early next week from a very kind chappy on the oc forums ^^^^^ :rolleyes:

mentions no names *cough w3bbo cough*

w3bbo · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:51

Hehe, take care of my baby please

and remember to take some pics when you get it up and running!

TheDean · 17 Jan 2007 at 13:41

w3bbo said:
Hehe, take care of my baby please and remember to take some pics when you get it up and running!

That was nice of you! I hope Harris bought you a pint!

EDIT - Not sure about the whole sig thing?! It only says "New build comming..." in small letters

w3bbo · 20 Jan 2007 at 15:54

I meant check MY sig...bah here ya go :

CLICK ME!!

platypus · 20 Jan 2007 at 17:16

I've been really inspired by your project w3bbo, but having looked at this case if I don't go for water cooling then I like it - you did a lot more then I think I'd be able to do to a case, and I like the p180. The upside down thing especially looks good.

Can't decide whether to water cool or not, I suspect if I do I'll go stacker for the space.

w3bbo · 20 Jan 2007 at 17:26

Yeah there are much better cases for watercooling, unfortunately if you want to be individual you have to go against the grain and do something different. I havn't seen many P180's watercooled nvm with a triple rad built in but watercooled stackers are ten a penny due to its ease of install. You gotta ask yourself a question - do you want to blend in and follow the crowd or rebel and stand out?

platypus · 20 Jan 2007 at 17:37

Well, I primarily want a case that can cool a top end system with 2 graphics card well, above all

Other then that, I've watercooled once in the past, a long time ago, so I guess I'm still fairly new to it, so the less modding that needs doing the better. On the other hand, if I could get access to the tools, it might be fun to try the whole case cutting thing and going the whole hog for a mod. I wonder what modding the Lian-Li PC-V1100B would be like, having read reviews its spectacularly inefficient at cooling due to its compartmentalised design, but with a bit of modding a watercooled system could be pretty nice in one of those.

If I did go for watercooling, I think I'd want everything inside the case.