Antec P182 Gun Metal Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: Exquisitely designed. Case fans on low setting are whisper quiet and keep the case adequately cooled. Room to route cables behind the motherboard is a big plus. Removable and washable lint/dust filters were a great idea.

Cons: No case speaker? Fans do not include connectors for motherboard case fan monitoring ports. Had to remove the middle drive bay to fit an 8800GTX. Poor documentation and manual and on top of that it was a P180B manual.

Overall Review: The metal flanges on the middle drive bay case are what make the 8800 fit too tight. Mounting the drives in the bottom bay was not a problem and they will probably stay cooler given the bottom fan so nothing to complain about really. I was able to fit a PC Power and Cooling Silencer 600 PSU in this case with minimal effort. Note: The bottom drive bay mounts are vertical not horizontal!

Pros: Looks very nice. Intake fan filters are easy to remove. With the fans on the "low" setting, it's more or less silent. With fans on medium, it's relatively quiet. The cooling is very good for hard drives, GPU. and PSU. It's decent for the CPU. The layout is very nice, and although it is more cramped than I expected from the pictures, overall it is easy to make a nice, clean cabling job.

Cons: The front panel is cheap. Within one week, one of the magnets that holds the door shut came unglued (the bottom one), so now the door has a small gap at the bottom when closed. For some reason, the middle magnet uses the power button as the thing it "holds" to. After a few months, I opened the door to find that the magnet had pulled my power button straight out of the front panel! So now, I either have to leave the front door open all of the time or I always have to very carefully put the power button back (putting it back can easily press the button, shutting down the PC).

Overall Review: Buying a fan for the front intake (upper slot) makes a big difference in cooling for the upper. It ups the noise a bit but I think it was worth it. The top chamber cooling doesn't have ANY intake fans otherwise. Since the top chamber doesn't have any intake fans by default, and it has two 120mm fans blowing out, a lot of air tends to flow in from the holes in the back of the case (the PCI slot covers have holes and there are two holes for water cooling tubes). It would be nice to have some parts included to cover these holes to keep dust out.