[Howard]

I recently got this case and I have to say that I absolutely love it.

Previously I had a ThermalTake XasserIII, which had served me well for a number of years. My girlfriend now has that case and seems pleased with it.

The Lian Li is very plain, but in saying that, I think it's minimalist approach is one of it's redeeming features and I wasn't looking for anything too flashy(sorry Rik, no blue flashing lights on this baby).

I like the fact that it has room for two psu's, so future power hungry upgrades won't be a problem.

I also love the slide out mobo tray, which makes building the system such a breeze.

It even has knock out holes ready to accept water cooling, not that I ever intend to go down that route.

The case is a full tower and is therefore very large, but this means there's plenty of room for all sorts of stuff and working inside the case once it's all assembled is a real pleasure.

It doesn't come cheap and after some shopping around, I finally found it at my local computer store for £135:00. While that may seem like a lot, you do get an awful lot of case for the money and the quality is outstanding as one would expect of Lian Li.

It isn't as quiet as my old Thermaltake case was, but the cooling is better and I wouldn't say it was that the extra noise was such a problem. It contains 3 120mm fans arrange one at the front(intake), one on top(intake) and one to the rear(exhaust). There's also room for an extra 120mm fan next to the hard drive cradle.

All in all I'm very happy with this case and would whole heartedly recommend it to anyone.

For a full review of the case, including lots of pics, please see HERE.

[Rik]

Dude, it needs lights!!

[Joshuashawharvey]

Nice case! Very spacious.

The only thing I personally see as a disadvantage is when the PSU is fitted at the bottom. It makes cable management somewhat harder as most of the time the cables are not long enough, forcing you to have bulky extenders on the ends of your cables making the inside look untidy, unless there is enough room at the back to fit all of the cables plus the bulky extenders, then it's no problem.

Other than that one thing, I really like the slide-out motherboard tray and the fact that your hard drives are inserted with the cables faced to the side. I think this sort of design is so much better than when they are sticking out, hitting your graphics card and other interface cards. But even that wouldn't be a problem with your case as the PSU and hard drives have their own dedicated space.

[Rik]

There are some specialised PSU's out there with extra long cables plus, if you can solder its relatively easy to elongate cables yourself.

I once had a small case and an extremely low budget so I fitted 2 PSU's to the bottom of the case and soldered the wires to the correct length without a problem.

[Daveskater]

That looks really nice mate, from those pics it seems to have really good build quality.

One thing I'll say, though, is have an experiment with turning the fan on the top of the case the other way round, so it's an exhaust. My case has a fan in the top, and it was originally mounted as an intake, but it was always really warm inside, so I turned it over, and it helped the hot air get out instead of being pushed back in again. Temps dropped by several degrees all across the board

[Howard]

Josh: You're quite right about the bulky extenders, fortunately, I didn't have to use any, so it wasn't a problem.

Rik: As you rightly say, it isn't a very big job to extend the psu cables if needed, again I didn't have to do that.

Dave: I actually did give that a try and for whatever reason my temps actually went up. I can only assume that since the case is designed with max airflow in mind, I guess they had a very good reason for making the top fan an intake. You're spot on with the build quality though, it really is very well built as are all Lian Li products to the best of my knowledge.