Antec P160 Super Midi tower

This case is from the Performance One range which features cases that combine the best of quiet PC and high performance case technologies.

Price: £105.69

Manufacturer: Antec

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An impressive list of features, you should not be disappointed.

PC Magazine Team, PC Magazine 05 Mar 2004

The P160 is constructed from 1.2mm anodised aluminium with a silver-finished plastic front bezel and comes with an impressive list of features. But, as with most high end cases, there's no power supply.

In order to keep case noise down to a minimum, the P160 comes with a rubber-mounted Antec 120mm fan in the rear panel (there's another 120mm fan mount in the front should you need extra cooling) plus rubber mounts for the tool-free hard drive trays.

Also useful is the removeable motherboard tray, which makes building the PC so much easier than with a fixed backplate.

The P160 shouldn't disappoint in terms of drive bays. It has 10 in all: four externally accessed 5.25in, two external and four internal 3.5in.

The top two 5.25in drive bays have spring-loaded doors that open when the loading tray of the optical drive pushes against them.

The front of the case is dominated by three large air intakes. Behind these is a filter and, for cosmetic effect, there's a blue LED in the top of each intake.

The top of the front bezel houses an I/O panel that tilts up at 45 degrees, which is useful if you're standing the P160 on the floor. The panel houses two USB 2.0 ports, two audio ports and a single FireWire port as well as LED readouts for the two temperature sensors that are supplied with the P160.

These sensors are supplied on cables long enough to reach most parts of the case and the readout can be set to display degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Antec also supplies a well written manual with the P160.

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