Antec P8 Mid-Tower Chassis Review
Peter Donnell / 7 years ago
A Closer Look – Interior
There’s lots of room inside this chassis, especially so since there are no HDD bays towards the front. That means you can use very long expansion cards with ease. It also means you can fit a decent thickness radiator in the front, and there’s a cutaway in the PSU shroud to give you more height to do so also.
There are three fans pre-installed in this chassis, which is impressive given the retail price of the chassis is already pretty low. They’re quite stylish looking too with white blades, and some white LED lights on the outer parts of the frame.
Cable routing is pretty simple, with a raised part of the motherboard tray allowing for cables to pass through.
Show off your SSDs
The dedicated 2.5″ drive mounts look nice and also have a small cable routing hole of their own. No cable pass through for the GPU cables though, which would have been nice.
Behind the motherboard, there’s not a lot going on really. You’ll find a bundle of cables for the front I/O, as well as a Molex needed for the front panel lighting.
Towards the front, there are two 2.5″ drive mounts. They do look a little cramped in there, but if you need extra drive mounts, you’ll be glad they’re there.
Hidden HDD bays
Tucked into the base, two slide out trays with support for 3.5/2.5″ HDDs. What’s cool is that with the screws on the base of the chassis, you can move these left or right to make room for radiators in the front, or for a larger PSU area. Of course, you can also take them out completely if you want to.
The PSU mount has plenty of room, and there are four thick rubber blocks to help it mount better, and prevent unwanted vibrations.
The front panel can be pulled off, it’s those pesky compressing pegs that aren’t hard to break, but so far so good for the P8 not breaking any. The cables are a mess from the front I/O too, like… a big mess, and that means you can’t stand the front panel up or remove it once it’s pulled open. In saying that, it does give you access to the full height front dust filter, which is very nice quality.
