Lian Li V1100 for ~ £150, is it worth it?

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Hi Guys,

I have a check my spec thread here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17783118
And it was suggested I check in with you guys ;)

I was planning to get a Lian Li V1000 as they're very nice to look at but I want a case that was also as quiet as possible. As i've said in my other post I'm worried about getting the V1100, I've had an Antec P180 and it was too plasticy and I've got a PC7 which is okay but i wanted something better, something stunning and also quiet. It's just a heck of a lot of money for a case.

Is it worth it?

Maybe something else?

Thanks again for any help.
RC
 
I have one, no plastic bits at all, its all aluminium, built like a tank and looks great :). Mine is very quiet, i have replaced the stock fans with yateloons but the stock fans were also quite quiet. You will not regret buying one of these. I will post up pics of mine later as i am in work at the minute.

EDIT: Just realised you want v1100 and i have v1000+ althought its the same internal design and the V1100 is made to be silent so you wont have any problems there. There also the same build quality.
 
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I used to have the silver one, i've been tempted to go for the larger version as well a few times. It's a great case, much quieter than the P180 (i've owned both btw) and nice build quality as well. The early revisions wouldn't fit a long psu but that could be got around by drilling the divider out. I'd say go for it, I actually prefer it to the pretend G5 one.
 
I've got a V1000+...And I really don't find it THAT amazing, for a start tehre's no intake fan for the cpu/motherboard compartment. Yeah temps are cool I guess but that's only cause I've stuck a Kama bay in the front of the system.

I personally think you can get a lot better for £150 =/
 
Arcane said:
I used to have the silver one, i've been tempted to go for the larger version as well a few times. It's a great case, much quieter than the P180 (i've owned both btw) and nice build quality as well. The early revisions wouldn't fit a long psu but that could be got around by drilling the divider out. I'd say go for it, I actually prefer it to the pretend G5 one.
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Thanks for this - This was what i was hoping to hear. I'd be getting a V1100 Plus II and I'd be chucking in a Corsair HX520 PSU, hopefully that would fit okay.........

Delvis said:
I've got a V1000+...And I really don't find it THAT amazing, for a start tehre's no intake fan for the cpu/motherboard compartment. Yeah temps are cool I guess but that's only cause I've stuck a Kama bay in the front of the system.

I personally think you can get a lot better for £150 =/
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Thank you for the comment, I don't really want to spend that much on a case but I'm justifying it for it's quality and it'll be something that is going to last - hopefully long after I put in the initial system, hopefully my next 2 to 3 builds so approx 5 years, but what would you recommend?

Thanks.
RC
 
Delvis said:
I've got a V1000+...And I really don't find it THAT amazing, for a start tehre's no intake fan for the cpu/motherboard compartment. Yeah temps are cool I guess but that's only cause I've stuck a Kama bay in the front of the system.

I personally think you can get a lot better for £150 =/
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Don't need any intake fans tbh, the whole case is full of holes... there is a point for those holes other than looks you know ;)
 
I'll be honest with you, and you wont like this... If you want a good case that's well designed, quiet, with good cooling and also stunning to look at, made from aluminium.... well that's pretty much describing a perfect case. And perfect cases cost a lot of money.

If you want to save money on something, you have to sacrifice some of it's features :P

Have you tried going down the second hand route? I'm using Easyriders old case. It was a fair price and is in pristine condition.
 
Get a V1200+ II - it's about 5" longer and it solves 99.9% of the issues associated with the V1000.
 
V|per said:
Don't need any intake fans tbh, the whole case is full of holes... there is a point for those holes other than looks you know ;)
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Ohhhhh and I thought the holes where just for pretty measures :eek:

You think I'm dumb or something? Saying I don't need an intake fan is bull quite frankly. Especially when my temps where going up when i wasn't doing anything.

That was due to my chipset being passive but hey. If you want to get really cheeky I could reverse everything and do it how Lian li advertise it couldn't i? Intake from the rear yada yada...But I know that would be pants :)
 
Delvis said:
Ohhhhh and I thought the holes where just for pretty measures :eek:

You think I'm dumb or something? Saying I don't need an intake fan is bull quite frankly. Especially when my temps where going up when i wasn't doing anything.

That was due to my chipset being passive but hey. If you want to get really cheeky I could reverse everything and do it how Lian li advertise it couldn't i? Intake from the rear yada yada...But I know that would be pants :)
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Unfortunately, if you read your posts in this thread then you do come over as less than correct, and aggresively rude with it. On all V-Series cases the rear fan is shipped as an intake, as is the front fan. The front blows cool air over the hard drives, the rear blows cool air over the CPU and chipset (which you specifically say it doesn't). Lian Li supply a cowl to force air down onto the stock heatsink and fan, and the chipset.

Both the fans on a V-series should be blowing in, as it positively pressurizes the case and the air bleeds out of the holes. The whole point of putting the fans low down is to help nature in that warm air rises and so injecting cold air at the top of the case can create pockets of hot air that may never escape. In the latest cases, Lian Li have further adressed hot air collecting at the top of the case by fitting a top-extraction fan in the motherboard side of the case. It's a very, very good design (it was nicked from Apple) and it works very well.

As a group, overclockers create a massive problem for themselves by using third-party CPU coolers. These tend not to cool the VRM or the Northbridge, so cases get blamed for chipsets being very hot, when in fact the case is working fine, but the owners have ruined the carefully planned cooling system that Intel designed for it's CPUs and chipsets. If you had used a low profile CPU cooler and the air cowl with the rear fan blowing in that Lian-Li supply as the standad set-up your chipset would have been kept very, very cool indeed. I know of people using the Silverstone NT-06 cooler passively with the fan cowl in V-series cases.
 
Ok for a start...My chipset heatsink 'was' the stock one, It was the A8n-sli premium board, which is a passive heatsink. And to clear matters up, I 'did' have the rear fan blowing in like all the airflow pictures indicate on the lian-li website. However as I have a graphics card, and everything else in the system, there was no 'direct' airflow over the chipset near the cd-rom drives, meaning the chipset and pwm sensors i had monitoring my system where getting hot.

Infact, when I moved my system from my chieftec dragon case, over to the lian-li case, my temperatures as a whole went up, and I was getting random shut down's due to heat issues. This was WITH stock fans on everything.

Appologies if my post did seem a bit rude, just making a point that I needed an intake fan in order to keep certain elements of my system cool. :)
 
I've had my V1000+ for over two years now and although it cost a lot (even more with the windowed side panel) I don't regret buying it at all. It's still about the best looking case around and I don't think there's anything out there that I'd want to replace it with.

I've rebuilt pc's into it a couple of times, it's still in great condition, looks like new (other than a bit of dust :rolleyes: )

If you want to improve airflow, Lian Li now do a fan mount that takes up three of the front bays, it's perforated just like the case front and looks like a great addition. Infact I'm tempted myself.
 
Yeah don't get me wrong...The case looks amazing :)

I've actually installed a Kama bay into the front of mine, which is practically the same thing that you just mentioned. Seem's to work a charm, and considering I only have the one Dvd drive, losing the lower drive bays is no bigger for me.
 
RC21 said:
I was planning to get a Lian Li V1000 as they're very nice to look at but I want a case that was also as quiet as possible. As i've said in my other post I'm worried about getting the V1100, I've had an Antec P180 and it was too plasticy and I've got a PC7 which is okay but i wanted something better, something stunning and also quiet. It's just a heck of a lot of money for a case.
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PC-A10..... its a P180 in Lian Li clothes, just better built, more spacious, and Aluminium rather than Steel.

Awesome case, and good for silence too. Even has a built in fan controler for a couple fo the fans!
 
Seems to me these split cases with compartments for this, that, the other cause more problems than they solve. They certainly look to restrict overall airflow. Which is why i've never used one. I've also never used intake fans either. the way I've always gone about things is to fit sufficient rear outlet fans (love 120mm fan psu's for this) to draw air in through any case holes the front may have. I've had benefits in the past on very overclocked mhz-war pc's by putting an internal fan down low just to focus some flow onto the motherboard.

Most silent 120mm fans shift about 45cfm of air. If you have one of these in a PSU, and one in an optimal rear extraction point, you'll get ~90cfm of flow, which back in the day would cool a small and cheap case containing a 3.2ghz prescott P4 @~4ghz quite sufficiently, with decent temps. Rear extraction graphics coolers are more common these days and further reduce the need for case fans

Suggestion: look at silverstone cases, and consider old-type ATX'S - there's some really lovely cases out thre in the old design that wont command a premium price for a convention that seems to cause more problems than it fixes, and doesnt seem to have taken off anyway.
 
V|per said:
Don't need any intake fans tbh, the whole case is full of holes... there is a point for those holes other than looks you know ;)
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You're wrong V|per, you're meant to have both the fans as intakes and the hot aire will out via the holes as WJA96 states ;)
 
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