Antec P193 Review

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Exhaust is dealt with by two oversized 140mm fans in the roof of the case and the more usual 120mm fan at the back of the case which will line up with the majority of CPU coolers. Each fan has its own individual three-speed controller which – with the exception of the side panel fan that's internal – can be found at the back of the case.

Building a PC in the P193 is pretty easy though it doesn’t have as many cable management features as the Twelve Hundred or Nine Hundred Two. The cavity behind the motherboard is big enough to tidy cables in and there’s a few cut-outs to route them there unobtrusively. Round the back of the motherboard tray, Antec has take the liberty of fashioning small hooks and cable ties ready to make the process of cable management quicker and easier.


Despite any cable management touches though the position of the PSU and the metal partitions that you have to route the cables round makes cable management harder than it would otherwise be. We found that our cables were often not quite long enough to take the least obstructive route and often had to go through the main chamber in an unsatisfactorily ugly fashion. Antec has added a trap door style feature to the partition that runs through the middle of the case, but the positioning isn’t quite right so it didn’t help much. Still, this is partly down to the PSU we use, so if you have one with particularly long cables then it would be easier.


The main chamber is easily big enough to fit two full-length 10.5in graphics cards such as a pair of GeForce GTX 285s and the side panel fan should ensure that they’ll get sufficient airflow to not go super nova when you fire up Crysis. Unlike the P180 cases, the P193 is an EATX case so you could even fit a massive dual-CPU server motherboard inside though again if you do, we'd recommend filling the front fan slots, especially as its likely your hard disks will be getting a thrashing.


The PSU mount has rubber vibration dampening mounts but the metal and rubber brace that was included in some of the previous Performance One series cases has been done away with. This is a shame as it made a snug home for the PSU, and between this and the lack of intake fans, you start get a faint whiff of being on the receiving end of some corporate penny pinching. However, given that the P193 is £100 cheaper than its predecessor, we can probably cut Antec some slack on this point.