Closer Look:

When UPS showed up to drop off a nearly 52 pound box, I was quite surprised. What could possibly make a box weigh so much? I opened the brown box to find the P190 box which was very well packed. This time around, the P190 Tower requires more substantial methods of shipping. Removing the P190 was a new experience in that the case was heavier than recent enclosures and reminded me of the old school Chenming cloned towers. The reason for all the extra weight was revealed after removing the plastic wrap. The P190 is an extended chassis which shares many of its design features with the P180 which is built for silence over the commonly used aluminum design. The P190 also includes two quality power supplies already installed in the chassis which all combined makes up 43 pounds of the box.
 

Big P190 Box

Nicely Packed

The P190 is designed for maximum function, larger components, and silent operations which can't be achieved using the thinnest aluminum construction. Thicker aluminum enclosures tend to cost a prettier penny and aren't really all that light. As you read this, someone is also probably learning how easy it is to damage a really thin enclosure. The P190 compensates by implementing almost every plausible, positive feature you could want in an enclosure. The chassis is extra sturdy, utilizes sound dampening materials, and offers a much more substantial case cooling than any previous Antec enclosure. If three fans weren't enough to cool your system in the P180, then a new total of five case fans should more than suffice.
 

Left Side

Right Side

It comes with a Gun Metal Black color and a familiar top notch finish carried over from the P182. The enclosure is deeper and wider as well which accounts for its assigned Advanced Super Tower moniker. What makes the case so super? It comes with an extended internal chassis providing much needed space for BTX form factor motherboards which means dual CPU users will be now be happy that they can move about the inside freely. Also, you get the wire management chassis improvements that allow you to run wires up the back of the motherboard tray. Serious BTX users will appreciate that extra feature especially if the system has extra storage drives and cabling.

Same P182 Front

Back Chassis

What of the two installed power supplies? I can sum it up in two words, Neo-Link. There is one 650 watt and one 550 watt power supply that are preinstalled in the P190 Super Advanced Mid Tower. Both of the power supplies are connected by Antec's Neo-Link which combines the total wattage to 1200 watts! That's plenty of power for your main components and just about anything else you may want connected to your system. The power supplies are Antec's Neo Power which may not be the most attractive series, but they are definitely some of the best tried and true power supplies that typically meet or exceed their specifications. You can bet that Antec wouldn't dare put this kind of bragging power inside their P190 unless it were absolutely capable of performing.
 

650W & 550W Neo Power

Modular Cables for 550W

Getting back to the system cooling fans, the P190 comes with an enormous 3-speed 200mm panel fan that has the potential to move an enormous amount of air. The slower spinning blades equate in to extremely quiet fan and is perfect for keeping larger ATX or BTX systems cool which tend to generate more than the typical amount of heat. Set to high, your internal chassis becomes an extremely well cooled machine in a wind storm. This size of fan is slowly becoming more and more ideal in enclosures designed for cooler, quiet function. We've seen similar sized fans from Tagan, except their design places it in the very front of the case sort of like a turbo prop.
 

Top 140mm and Side 200mm Fans

200mm Fan Close Up

You still get the front and rear 120mm quieter tri-cool case fans that are still pretty quiet compared to earlier generation case fans. Besides the major 200mm panel fan change, Antec also increased the size of the top fan to 140mm and then added another! So, the top of the P190 now has two 140mm tri-cool fans that are even quieter and do a perfect job expelling warm air. If you want to change the speed of these fans, there are three fans switches now integrated in to the top rear of the P190 for the top and rear fans. You won't need to open your case to change the fan speeds, nor buy a Rhoebus to control them.
 

Side In - Top Out

140mm Close Up

120mm & Fan Switches

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