The build
Accessories include: Logitech G5/G15 gen2/Z-10 Speakers/G25 racing wheel/ Razer Mantis Speed mouse pad / Sennheiser PC-161 Headset.
Cooling: 3x 120mm LED Fans, 3x 120mm Antec Tri-Cool fans, OCZ Memory Cooler, and Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro on the cpu.
For anyone who may be considering a P182, I say get it as it is an amazing case to get and work with. I've done 2 builds in them (one my friends in a standard P182 and mine in the P182SE.) The Black painted interior is one of the advantages of the P182SE that the normal P182 doesn't get also the mirrored stainless steel has an amazing look. P182 in black is also really nice as its more of a dark gunmetal grey.
Added pics. 2nd pic is the side panel sitting on my chair and taking a pic of the insides through reflection.
System specs
- CPU
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @ 3.0 GHz
- Motherboard
- Asus M2R32-MVP
- RAM
- 2 GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 4-4-4-10 2.1 V
- GPU
- HIS Radeon HD 3870 ICEQ3
- GPU
- HIS Radeon HD 3870 Reference
- Storage
- Samsung Spinpoint F1 750 GB
- Storage
- Western Digital 250 GB
- Storage
- Samsung DL DVD/RW
- Case
- Antec P182SE
Performed mods
Not really many mods per-say as I don't want to go cutting up such a beauty of a case. Although.
I added some additional cooling to the system with a Scyth Kama Bay which gave me a 120mm fan in the 3 empty 5.25" bays.
Put an OCZ Memory Airflow cooler on the rams with a Zalman Fan mate to keep it quiet, it was to loud for me outa the box.
Did some cable management as well. Not that it is hard with a P182 though.
I added some additional cooling to the system with a Scyth Kama Bay which gave me a 120mm fan in the 3 empty 5.25" bays.
Put an OCZ Memory Airflow cooler on the rams with a Zalman Fan mate to keep it quiet, it was to loud for me outa the box.
Did some cable management as well. Not that it is hard with a P182 though.
8 Comments on P182SE
I honestly don't know why Asus continues making puke colored pcbs...
I do like the first picture, case looks almost invisible.
I'm working on a pretty epic case mod at the moment. Suffice to say, without mods, I have 3 Kama Bays in the front :P
If your interested heres the link
www.pdxlan.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4834&start=0
I know for sure that 24 port switch will do in the top corner, but aside from that, haven't come up with any extreme ideas.
In regards to the second Iceq card, sound awesome, should look pretty sharp once they match.
7/10