From this angle you can see part of the fan that exits out the rear of the P-182 and the other 120mm fan that vents out the tops of the case.  These two fans are speed adjustable thanks to the three-speed switch located on the upper-rear portion of the case.

Looking into the case via the power supply opening you can see the 120mm fan located at the mid-point of the case that servers to bring cool air back across the power supply.  We will talk about the problem we had with this fan a little bit later on.

Here you can see the controls for the 120mm fan located at the rear and the top of the case, the switch is marked for speeds of "slow - medium - fast".
 

Antec has made that keeping things nice and tidy inside the case is not a huge challenge thanks the cable tie downs located on the rear side of the motherboard tray.  While this may not take all of the work out of hiding the cables it will greatly help in the process.

If you look closely at the inside of the drive cage you can see every place where a hard drive is mounted to the drive bay and pair of silicon vibration dampeners are located in bolt holes, this will greatly reduce the sound any hard drive makes during spin-up or spin-down.  This drive bay will hold a total of four 3.5" hard drives.

The top mounting 120mm fan has two options as far as the way you can dress it up.  The first way would best be describes as undress since we would do nothing with it. The second way is the install the bi-directional grill cover that is slid into a set of tracks on each side of the fan until the vent snaps into place.  The purpose of this vent is 2-fold, one if will prevent any items from falling directly into the fan and then on into the case.

The last thing we are going to look at before go is the compartment divider that is used to allow the cabling from your power supply to make its way to your motherboard and still keep a relatively tight fit around the cables thereby preventing a great deal of warm air to rise into the area where the motherboard is resting.

Installation went pretty much as we has expected with the exception of one small problem.  The centrally located fan that sets directly in front of the power supply had to be removed to provide us with enough room to install our Mushkin modular power supply.  We were initially able to install the power supply with the fan in place, but the cables from the power supply kept hitting the fan blade so the fan and its assembly was completely removed.

Other than small issue everything else fit into the Antec P-182 perfectly, using our ECS KN1 Extreme with an AMD64 3800+ processor along with a 500 GB western Digital hard drive, 2 GB of OCZ PC-3200 Rev 2.0 memory and Mushkin 600 watt power supply and a passively cooled X1650 video card.  We were able to record an idle temperature of 37 degrees and a full load temperature of 57 degrees which is very acceptable.

The Antec P-182 proved to be a very well built computer enclosure that offers a very unique method of keeping the warmest components separated from each other thereby controlling the overall temperature of the case.  Combine this with the fit and finish we have come to expect from Antec and you have yourself another top of the line product from one of the major names in computer enclosures.  Give the Antec P-182 a look and I am positive you will go home with one of your very own.

Final Score 9.5 of 10