Inside - secrets and accessories
With what's gone before, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the P182's internals had been fully covered.
But you'd be wrong.
That's because we need to look under the other side-panel where a number of additional new features are to be found.
Given that the P182 is actually 5mm narrower than its predecessor, it's a little surprising to see what Antec has achieved around there.
It also goes to show that there was a fair amount of wasted space on the dark side of the P180.
The P182 had three cable ties pre-installed through loops pressed out of the underside of the motherboard tray.
Antec thoughtfully includes a handful of spares cable ties in the accessories box and these can be used on any of the four remaining loops or, if preferred, around the motherboard side of the case.
The other main improvement to the P182 is the provision of cable-routing holes. You can see three holes cut out of the motherboard back plate. Two are up top and one lines up nicely with where the motherboard's 24-pin PSU socket will be.
While these little tweaks worked really well and made building the system a breeze, we did find that the cable for the eight-pin connector on our Corsair HX620 power supply was about 5cm too short to reach round the back and over the top.
As a result, our system was a little less tidy than it might have been - one solitary cable having to run entirely on the working side of the P182.
We're not sure whether the same problem is likely to arise with most other power supplies but Antec will know that better than us. If the problem is going to be common, then the company could, perhaps, consider including in-pack a shortish extension lead to help keep things ultra-tidy.
The range of accessories provided with the P182 is pretty much the usual fair. As well as the afore-mentioned cable tidies and wire fan-bracket, there are plenty of long-neck screws for all the hard drive bays, plus slide rails for installing a bunch of optical drives in the 5.25in bays.
