This pic here shows how close this power supply was to the center fan. The Antec P180b case required a bracket that goes around the Thermatake TP 750W power supply with a thin rubber cushion to help it reduce noise. It took me a while to get this sucker on the power supply, then placing it the opening.
Once I had it installed, then came the fun part of trying to route the cables up to the top to reach the motherboard. As you can see, the only way I could get the cables attached to the power supply connectors was with the use of needle nose pliers.
I installed the 2 hard drives at the bottom on there sides for better cooling from the center 120mm fan. Also, the cables came very close to touching the center fan (on both sides of the fan).
The Nvidia 8800GT video card from EVGA just fits on this Asus P5K-E motherboard. I had to use a special 90° SATA cable so it would not hit SATA #1 port on the motherboard.
The Antec case has a fan control switch to select the speed of the 3 fans. I currently have them set to medium speed. At the low setting, you can hardly hear all 3 of them.
Here is a pic of the front of the case. It's been on my workbench for ~3 weeks now after buying the parts in late Nov and early Dec.
Here is a pic of the motherboard. The pic is a little distorted and I'm too lazy to go take another one.
The board fired right up the first time with no issues.
The only issue I had was installing the AHCI SATA drivers. I originally installed XP with the bios set to IDE, so I had to do a repair install with the F6 option during setup. Tomorrow, I plan to move this sucker in the house so I can play FEAR on Wednesday night.
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