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Testing

Installation for this case was pretty easy. I installed a fairly low spec computer in this case and the whole installation took approximately 15 minutes. As you can see from the photo, that is without cable management.

Antec P190

However if you wanted to hide all the cables in this case, it would be fairly easy as there are lots of holes in the motherboard plate where you can route PSU, SATA and IDE cables. Futhermore, there are cable tidy clips already installed on the back of the motherboard plate making things so much easier. No more drilling holes in your motherboard plate now !!

Even though there are a lot of fans in this case, it’s actually still rather quiet. The side panel fan and two top fans don’t actually need to be running at high speed in most systems, so if you switch them down to low they are actually pretty silent. The two power supply’s run at a very silent noise level and I didn’t actually notice the fans in them at all. The sound dampeners in this case also play a large part in sound deadening, and I felt my hard drives operated much quieter than normal when using this case.

The PSU’s in this case bugged me a lot though. I really felt that two power supplies were certainly not needed and it would be better off just replacing them with a 1000w model. Having two power supplies creates a jungle of cables and also makes the P190 even heavier…making this case even heavier is one thing the P190 certainly does not need!

However I cannot fault the quality of this case. The case is easy to work with and also very enjoyable. There are no sharp edges in this case which you sometimes see in cheaper cases and much of the case uses thumbscrews and bays which are removable.

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