So I am planning to buy a new case sometime this month, and I will eventually put a watercooling setup in it. I was looking at the Antec P180, but I don't know if that will be big enough. What do you guys think?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Oh, and it might help to say that I want to put everything inside the case, not have the rad hanging out the back or anything, I hate that.

get a nice big lian li, a chieftech dragon, or an antec performance II.

The antec performance II and the Dragon are both smaller than the P180...

Any other suggestions?

Lian Li selection

SilverStone Selection

Antec Selection

Cooler Master Selections



I have the Temjin 5 Silverstone case and Absolutly Love it.

Hope the links help in your decision.

The P180 while large, has so many segregations inside of it that it makes water cooling a lot more challenging than inside a more traditional case.

chenming 901 as being currently modded by puck, easily enough room for a dual rad either up front or up top
http://www.chenmingusa.com/Fulltower.html

and then i'm working on the chieftech mesh bigtower, and this is pretty similar in size and layout...
http://chieftec.de/?page=products_show&ite...d=1&language=uk

the midtower chieftec/chenmings can actually fit a dual 120mm rad up front if you remove the hard-drive bays... so if you can mount the harddrives in the 5.25" bays or floppy bays then you could go for one of those if a full-tower is gonna be a little bit ott..

Hmm, thanks for the input everyone.

hardnrg, that design of yours looks pretty ingenious. Thats a great idea... good luck.

pop quiz time:

when talking about cases you should put the topic in the _______ section.

A: General Hardware

B: Case

C: none of the above.




please try to put them where they belong guys

We have a cases and power supplies section? ...Oh.

you are wrong, the dragon is WAY bigger than the p180. the performance 2 is about the same tho.

ooh... ohh... it's C isn't it

Havn't we always had a case + psu section?

The P180 is nice, btw...

the best of best is thermal take xaser!!! or kandalf!!

Hmm, lets see here...

Dragon: 8.1" (W) x 20.6"(H) x 18.6"(D)

P180: 8.1"(W) x 21.3"(H) x 19.9"(D)

I don't think the dragon is larger.

Chieftech Dragon: 475mm(D) x 205mm(W) x 670mm(H)
P180: 505mm(D) x 206mm(W) x 541mm(H)

these were taken from the antec and chieftech site, so they ARE accurate .

People, the dragon comes in different sizes...

inches lol...

my case is (WxHxD): 205mm x 652mm x 540mm
(8.1" x 25.7" x 21.3")

chenming 901 is: 8.1"W x 26.4"H x 18.6"D

depends what you want i guess... i wanted a lot of space up top to do what i'm doing the newer chenming and chieftec cases are bigger than the older dragon cases even in the "mid-tower" range... i use mid-tower loosely because it's still a roomy case

umm from using both i would say teh Cheiftec Server case is one of teh biggest i have seen, MUCH bigger than the P180



^^^ There you go, i was going to buy the big cheiftec a couple days ago and its HUGE, will house all your watercooling cray easly.

i was talking about their largest dragon, of course

those are all relatively small towers. if you guys want BIG look at super micro.







Height 19.9" (505mm)

Width 15.0" (381mm)

Depth 22.8" (579mm)

Gross Weight 104 lbs (47.3kg)


and even that one is SMALL next to some others out there.

Ahh, I see, I apologize for the confusion. I thought you just meant the plain Dragon, and not the Dragon Server Tower. Thanks for clearing that up . I may indeed go with that Dragon Server.

What about the CM Stacker? Has anyone heard anything about that case?

Haha, maybe not quite that large bigred .

beat this guys
Thermaltake XASER, Armor Series VA8000BWS Black
20.87" x 8.66" x 22.05" (H x W xD)
in inches of course.

lol bigred, not only are those big, but DEAD expensive . from what ive heard about coolermaster stackers, they are supposed to be good.