Antec P180

[shira]

Looks like deal is over (at least temporarily). Current price is now $127.30, pre-shipping.

But TechOnWeb's prices have been varying all over the place on this case, so keep checking.

 

[DanDaMan315]

Yep glab I ordered mine yesterday. 108 + 21 shipping.

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: nealh

Originally posted by: Fisher999

Originally posted by: nealh
...Are you finding certain psu and mobos do not have the length to reach the connectors....

Oh yes I am, based on people's replies to my various threads at various sites... I ought to start my own compatibility chart.... lol

what PSUs and mobo are having issues....

Well the Asus A8N series of mobos and just about any P/S have "cable reach issues" for the main P/S power cable and the 12VATX cable. I know that the Seasonic S12 430 and 500 will "work" with the Asus A8N's in the P180 but just barely without extendors for BOTH the main power and 12VATX cable.

 

[juandoh]

Based on my final price, I think they add the shipping to the case price and then calculate the tax. Bah.

 

[captains]

$124 now

 

[MJGunn]

Originally posted by: Fisher999
Well the Asus A8N series of mobos and just about any P/S have "cable reach issues" for the main P/S power cable and the 12VATX cable. I know that the Seasonic S12 430 and 500 will "work" with the Asus A8N's in the P180 but just barely without extendors for BOTH the main power and 12VATX cable.

Do they sell 12v extension cables? Mine reaches, but just barely, I'd like to get an extender so I can route the wire better than I am right now.

 

[Snooper]

Sigh. You guys just cost me $128... Oh well. After going on 7 years, I guess it IS time to upgrade the old In-Win Q500 (orignal version). When I first built that computer, I had a 266mhz Celery in it... OCed to 448 of course! (How many of you gents are getting 68% OCes these days??? I've lost count of the number of CPUs (and even more motherboards!) that have called this case home over the years. Let's see: 1) 266 Celery. 2) 450 mhz P3. 3) 800 mzh P3. 4) 2.0 ghz P4. 5) 2.4 ghz P4 Northwood. 6) 3.0 ghz P4. 7) 3.6 ghz P4. I THINK that is all. I do know I went through at least 5 P4 motherboards (I still have 4 of them...) for various reasons, but I don't have a CLUE how many P3 boards I went through. The memories...

Oh well. This old girl will find her new home in my server (getting back the last P4 board she had along with the 3.0 ghz P4). Or maybe I should say my server will find a new home in this old girl. Either way!

I AM looking forward to playing with a new case. I REALLY hope the airflow is MUCH better in the P180 because even with the mods (blow hole with 120mm fan blowing out along with other mods to improve airflow and cooling), this Q500 is VERY marginal with the 3.6 ghz. Even with the Zalman 7700 heat sink on her. The silly thing still hits the throttle if I hit 100% utilization for more than two minutes or so.

 

[Capt Caveman]

If you're looking for extension power cable adapters, here you go:
SilverStone SST-PP01 ATX Power Supply Adapter/Extension Cable Kit

 

[Trikat]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
If you're looking for extension power cable adapters, here you go:
SilverStone SST-PP01 ATX Power Supply Adapter/Extension Cable Kit

WOW. Just a friggn' $12.95. Get it sleeved for just $8 more!
Buy 3 of these and for that cost you can get a 600W Ultra X-Finity PSU... AR w/ free shipping.
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4490956
(Supposed to be better quality than their Ultra-X unreliable power supply as the components are of higher quality.)

Anyways my point is: wow what a rip off for just 2 cables. And sleeving 2 cables for $8 is insanely expensive. I guess they are that rare in the market...

 

[drthpichu]

Too big for my tastes.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Trikat

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
If you're looking for extension power cable adapters, here you go:
SilverStone SST-PP01 ATX Power Supply Adapter/Extension Cable Kit

WOW. Just a friggn' $12.95. Get it sleeved for just $8 more!
Buy 3 of these and for that cost you can get a 600W Ultra X-Finity PSU... AR w/ free shipping.
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4490956
(Supposed to be better quality than their Ultra-X unreliable power supply as the components are of higher quality.)

Anyways my point is: wow what a rip off for just 2 cables. And sleeving 2 cables for $8 is insanely expensive. I guess they are that rare in the market...

Actually, they're the least expensive set of power cables I've been able to find. You might be thinking of a 4pin molex extension or y adapter for $3-4 but these cables are a bit more heavy duty. And if you don't want to pay the money for them to take apart the cables to sleeve them, you can always do it yourself.

For the money, I would spend $20 more and get a Fortron 500w Blue Storm over that piece of crap psu.

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
If you're looking for extension power cable adapters, here you go:
SilverStone SST-PP01 ATX Power Supply Adapter/Extension Cable Kit

Does anyone know what reliable vendor sells 4pin molex to 3pin converters so that I can plug the 4pin tri-cools into my mobos fan header connectors ???

I do realize I won't be able to utilize the mobo's fan monitoring but at least I could "free up" having to use some of the Power Supply's 4 pin molex's to power the three Tri-cools.

Oh, and besides performance PC and NewEgg, is there any vendor that sells 4 wire/pin extenders if I need more reach with from one of the p/s's 4 pin molex's ???

Thanks

 

[flyswatter]

it's gonna look great by my stainless fridge.

 

[syyid]

Hey
Thanks for the deal, looking into buying it and had a few questions. Do any of you have the recent philips 30" silver HDTV. How similar in color does this seem? Also about the front audio ports and firewire/usb ports. Does this come with cables? My motherboard has the right headers but I dont have any cables for them. Or is there some other site I could use to get the right cables.

 

[DanDaMan315]

TechOnWeb says mine is shipped on there website but they haven't sent me an email ship confirmation (like they said they would) or tracking numbers.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Fisher999

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
If you're looking for extension power cable adapters, here you go:
SilverStone SST-PP01 ATX Power Supply Adapter/Extension Cable Kit

Does anyone know what reliable vendor sells 4pin molex to 3pin converters so that I can plug the 4pin tri-cools into my mobos fan header connectors ???

I do realize I won't be able to utilize the mobo's fan monitoring but at least I could "free up" having to use some of the Power Supply's 4 pin molex's to power the three Tri-cools.

Oh, and besides performance PC and NewEgg, is there any vendor that sells 4 wire/pin extenders if I need more reach with from one of the p/s's 4 pin molex's ???

Thanks

Jab-tech.com and sidewindercomputers.com

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: Fisher999

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Does anyone know what reliable vendor sells 4pin molex to 3pin converters so that I can plug the 4pin tri-cools into my mobos fan header connectors ???

...Oh, and besides performance PC and NewEgg, is there any vendor that sells 4 wire/pin extenders if I need more reach with from one of the p/s's 4 pin molex's ???

Thanks

Jab-tech.com and sidewindercomputers.com

Thanks Caveman !

 

[juandoh]

Originally posted by: DanDaMan315
TechOnWeb says mine is shipped on there website but they haven't sent me an email ship confirmation (like they said they would) or tracking numbers.

Me too! I purchased mine on Monday and I think it shipped late Tuesday or early today... but no tracking emails.

 

[Trikat]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Trikat

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
If you're looking for extension power cable adapters, here you go:
SilverStone SST-PP01 ATX Power Supply Adapter/Extension Cable Kit

WOW. Just a friggn' $12.95. Get it sleeved for just $8 more!
Buy 3 of these and for that cost you can get a 600W Ultra X-Finity PSU... AR w/ free shipping.
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4490956
(Supposed to be better quality than their Ultra-X unreliable power supply as the components are of higher quality.)

Anyways my point is: wow what a rip off for just 2 cables. And sleeving 2 cables for $8 is insanely expensive. I guess they are that rare in the market...

Actually, they're the least expensive set of power cables I've been able to find. You might be thinking of a 4pin molex extension or y adapter for $3-4 but these cables are a bit more heavy duty. And if you don't want to pay the money for them to take apart the cables to sleeve them, you can always do it yourself.

For the money, I would spend $20 more and get a Fortron 500w Blue Storm over that piece of crap psu.

Eh, I thought all Ultra PSUs were crappy, but I was proved wrong. The X-Finity line is actually decent/pretty good. The regular Ultra-Xs are poor/unreliable.

 

[DanDaMan315]

Are Seasonic's PSU cables long?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: DanDaMan315
Are Seasonic's PSU cables long?

Just barely

 

[nealh]

wow...just got the email noticed my case shipped at 830pm on the July 13!

It had shipped on the 7/12 according to the invoice(but they never shipped it)...man that is pure crap

I ordered on 7/10..Sun...order was processed and shipped on 7/12..emailed techonweb yesterday

RE:
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:18:32 -0700
From: "Brad Faizy" <bfaizy@techonweb.com> Add to Address Book
To: "neal honickman" <nhonickman@yahoo.com


Yes.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: neal honickman [mailto:nhonickman@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:15 PM
To: Brad Faizy
Subject: RE:

Thank you for the very fast response...I assume this has already shipped correct?

Do you know where it is shipping from

Neal

Got reply on the issue..this was/is a warehouse situation...apparently once the confirm payment and send info to the warehouse..they label the website invoice shipped...but sometimes the warehouse is slower??
anyway..I will say there email response is excellent

I personally prefer they not labeled as shipped till leave the warehouse...I figured it was in trasnit as of tuesday(sometime) not late wed pm....with tuesday shipping there was an outside chance of Fri delivery....

I never get lucky with shipping also takes max time..well it seems that way

 

[nombrecinq]

Ack it's $124 now. Does anybody know how well the Antec TruePower II fits? Do cables reach and stuff?

 

[nealh]

FYI..I emailed performance-pc..they sell ocz powerstream and p180(also sell the atx adapter kit)..they feel ocz powerstream will fit ok...maybe not with the awesome cabling done by some....

Hello,

Should be no issue with that PSU.

Best Regards,

Hank Baron



Performance PC's, Inc.

2600 Kirby Cr. NE

Unit #1

Palm Bay, FL 32905

(321) 725-9969

sales@performance-pcs.com



www.performance-pcs.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Neal Honickman [mailto:nhonickman@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 8:57 AM
To: Sales
Subject: Message from Performance-PCs.com


From: Neal Honickman
e-mail: nhonickman@yahoo.com

------------------------------------------------------

I am interested in a Antec P180 computer case. I own a OCZ 520w
Powerstream
PSU. I have seen reports of cable issues, ie the 12v 4pin cpu
connector and
ATX power supply connector may not reach with the PSU at the bottom..I
own a
MSI Neo 2 Platinum NForce 3 mobo. The ATX connector is mid mobo or
so..I do
not think this is an issue but I am very concerned the 12v 4pin
connector
need at the top of the mobo (for the CPU)...do you know since you are a
reseller of both this case and PSU whether the cable length on the OCZ
will
be an issue

Thank You

Neal Honickman

 

[juandoh]

Originally posted by: nombrecinq
Ack it's $124 now. Does anybody know how well the Antec TruePower II fits? Do cables reach and stuff?

It better. I'm putting a TPII in there once it arrives... July 19 according to FedEx