Show me the insides of your P180!

Fanatic · 8 Sep 2006 at 11:18

What version of Everest is that? I have 2.20 Home and it doesn't detect all the components.

My P5W DH doesn't appear and also the GPU temps aren't shown.

Jimbo · 8 Sep 2006 at 15:47

Version 3.01.652 Everest Ultimate edition 2006.

chimponarope · 8 Sep 2006 at 19:54

Everything at stock/auto. It is quite warm in here. Guess I need to work on some more airflow like I thought!

Jimbo · 8 Sep 2006 at 20:07

Hmm thanks for that mate very interesting. Looks like your motherboard temp is a bit high, mine was the same until i bunged some fans on my NB/SB. I would do that then overclock that E6600 to at least 3ghz.

chimponarope · 8 Sep 2006 at 20:10

I realised when I posted the photo's I still even have the plastic wrap on (knew I forgot something).

Do you have a fan in the top HDD bays?

Jimbo · 8 Sep 2006 at 20:12

I did have but not now, I have moved the 2 sata drives down into the lower chambers and its fine. When i did have a fan up there it made no difference to motherboard temps.

chimponarope · 8 Sep 2006 at 20:15

Interesting. Don't even have a spare 120mm kicking about to try it with. Might borrow one from a friend and see if I can see a difference but probably not from your experience.

Fanatic · 8 Sep 2006 at 21:13

CPU @ 2700 mhz - 1.35v
X1800XT @ 625/750mhz

Jimbo · 8 Sep 2006 at 23:10

What kind of cpu is that Fantatic? and is that idle or load?

Fanatic · 8 Sep 2006 at 23:13

Oops forgot that - its a E6600 idle. Load it rises around the 55 mark.

dobbs2010 · 9 Sep 2006 at 00:00

FunkyCowie said:
What heat sink is that? its... well... its huge!

If you think that Scythe Ninja is big wait till you see the Tuniq Tower 120 mounted in my P180. I'll try and take a pic tomorrow and post it.

dobbs2010 · 9 Sep 2006 at 18:22

Here's the pic of my Tuniq Tower 120 in the P180.

Jimbo · 10 Sep 2006 at 12:45

Crikey look at that thing! :eek:

Is it passively cooled? ie no fan on the heatsink? cant see one.

samcat · 10 Sep 2006 at 14:07

Jimbo said:
Crikey look at that thing!

Is it passively cooled? ie no fan on the heatsink? cant see one.

Does look passive, but they have a fan buried away inside them

Just about to window my P180, pictures shortly.

Cheers,
Sam C

killer_uk · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:01

When you've done it, how easy is it to cut through the side panels? I should be putting a 120mm fan hole in mine today.

Gommsta · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:17

I think these cases look great and would quite like one (my case at the moment has 4 x 80mm fans! lol). Anyway

1) What are these cases like cooling wise? Are they as good as you can get?

2) Does that dual chamber thing actually work?

3) What is the best thing about the case?

4) What's the worst thing?

Cheers Chaps

Azza · 10 Sep 2006 at 16:39

samcat said:
Does look passive, but they have a fan buried away inside them

Just about to window my P180, pictures shortly.

Cheers,
Sam C

I have a window in mine with two 120mm fans in it. I dont own a digital camera so I wont be able to show all you people.

Bit of advice dont go to crazy with the rivets like I did the side panel can bend quite easily.

**Goes off to hunt for a digital camera**

Yewen · 10 Sep 2006 at 16:41

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17447191

Shameless pimpage of the archieves. :cool:

Jimbo · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:01

1) Certainly not as good as it gets, my mobo temp is 40c, although fans are on low.

2) Yes it works well.

3) Lots of plusses, i like the way you can just slide out drives in and out of the bays, and its quiet.

4) cabling can be difficult, and the hard drive led blinks all the time, so i dissconected it.

dobbs2010 · 10 Sep 2006 at 19:06

Jimbo said:
Crikey look at that thing!

Is it passively cooled? ie no fan on the heatsink? cant see one.

The black panel on the top of the heatsink has 4 screws attaching it to the heatsink. You undo the screws and the panel slides out with the 120mm fan attached which slides down the middle of the heatsink. I have the fan inserted so it's blowing upwards towards the exhaust fan at the top. My case temp stays at about 32-33c at full load.