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Page 5 of 8 The Chassis: The chassis of the P190 is extremely well built, a little too well built in fact as it weighs a ton! Around 24kg (53lbs) before you even start putting other parts inside it. Once it’s built with a few drives, big video cards and a decent cooling setup it’d be easily over 30kg, not exactly something you’d want to lug around to a LAN. Once this thing is built, it’s staying in the same place! The chassis is heavy not because of its size, well not JUST because of its size, but it’s also because it’s made out of steel, not aluminium like many of the big flashy cases going around these days, and while this makes the P190 stronger, it’s also makes it a lot heavier. The strength of the case is excellent, with the side panels off there is a tiny bit of flex in the main chassis, but with the side panels bolted on there is almost nothing, you could probably rest a car on this thing it’s that strong (note – Don’t try and rest a car on this case, after all, it could scratch it :) ). Each of the side panels has a layer of sound deadening material on the inside, in another attempt to make the case as quiet as possible, and inside the case on any parts that may come into contact with the side panels there is a layer of felt fabric to prevent and vibrations, as well as strips of foam along the edges of the side panels themselves. Sound Deadening in Side Panel  Anti-Vibration Felt Strips  As mentioned earlier the motherboard area is big enough to take a full size Extended-ATX motherboard, such as Dual CPU server boards, so it’s almost guaranteed that it will be able to fit your motherboard, whatever it is and however big it is, and with the power supplies that the P190 packs inside, you can be sure it will be able to run it as well.
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