Cooling:
The cooling in this case is serious business, with a 120mm fan at the rear, 2 x 140mm fans up the top, a 120mm fan in front of the power supply, and a massive 200mm ‘Big Boy’ fan in the side panel this case has the ability to move a simply massive amount of air through it, to keep everything inside nicely chilled.
The fans are all ‘Antec Tri-Cool’ items which means they all have a speed selector switch and 3 different settings of low/medium/high. The top and rear fans have their speed switches built into the back of the case, while the side panel and lower fans have their switch hanging loosely on a cable and you have to open the case to adjust them. Antec suggest leaving all fans on low to minimise noise, and even on low these things can still move some serious air.
Their specifications are as follows:
120mm:
- Low – 39cfm @ 1200rpm @ 25dBA
- Med – 56cfm @ 1600rpm @ 28dBA
- High – 79cfm @ 2000rpm @ 30dBA
140mm:
- Low – 47cfm @ 700rpm @ 20dBA
- Med – 66cfm @ 1100rpm @ 21dBA
- High – 94cfm @ 1500rpm @ 32dBA
200mm:
- Low – 82cfm @ 400rpm @ 24dBA
- Med – 108cfm @ 600rpm @ 27dBA
- High – 134cfm @ 800rpm @ 29dBA
So you can see from the numbers above that moving air through the case is not a problem.
There are also two fan mounting points in the front of the case for two more 120mm fans so you can have them blowing directly over the hard drives, these aren’t included as standard in an effort to keep the noise down, and they aren’t really necessary as the air is already drawn in through these two holes anyway. These two front fan mounting points have removable and washable mesh air filters to help keep the inside nice and clean and the side 200mm fan also has a removable and washable air filter, so as to avoid blowing dust directly onto your motherboard and video cards.
Aside from the included case fans, the P190 also has two rubber grommets at the rear of the case to allow water pipes to pass through easily if you have an external water cooling setup, we’ve seen this is quite a few of the current Antec range of cases, and it sure beats having to cut holes in your shiny new case if they’ve already been done for you.
