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Antec P193 question.

Crazykenny

Crazykenny

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Hey guys,

I ordered a Antec P193 to place my server in, but by reading tons of reviews about it I kinda fell I love with it, so I wanna put my gaming rig in there.

But my question is, can I? I have a Coolermaster V8 doing the CPU cooling and I heard the case is somewhat restrictive in terms of CPU Cooler height due to the enormous fan on the side.

So, what do you guys think?
 
Nobody?
 
You might have to look into getting a new cpu cooler if you want to use that case with your main rig. last time we had a P183 in the shop i had the "pleasure" of building a server in one of them. it wouldn't fit any of the after market coolers we had in stock (mind you they're all tower coolers) so we had to use the stock intel fansink to make it work. hope this helps and good luck with the cable management in that thing.
 
I'm planning to put the dremel in it so cablemanagement is not going to be a real issue. I heard some stories about people just fitting in a V8 with 1-2mm clearance between the top of the cooler and the huge 200mm fan on the side.
 
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