My Lian Li PC-A71F
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i wonder why they stopped doing push pull with the HDD bay like on the earlier a70/a71 models, do you not get the removeable vertical support bar thing for long gfx cards anymore either?
btw taking the fan guard off the exhaust fan near the cpu lowered my sys temp by 2c for some reason so you might want to try it if you can get to remove it with the cpu cooler in the way
btw taking the fan guard off the exhaust fan near the cpu lowered my sys temp by 2c for some reason so you might want to try it if you can get to remove it with the cpu cooler in the way
Nice build
I still hate cases without windows though
you can buy a side panel with a window just not at ocuk for about 22quid.
you can buy a top with 2x 120mm blow holes to for about the same price
Nice build
I still hate cases without windows though
I'm actually enjoying not having a window, what with having had one for the past decade. So, silver and windowed to black and plain, nice contrast
Going to order two Fractal Design 140mm fans, and (if any ever come in stock) two Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm's for the rear.
9dB a piece, sounds good to me
Can't find any waterblocks that fit my Intel DX38BT board though, which means that I can only watercool the CPU and GPU's. I guess I'm best off having two loops, one for CPU and one for GPU's?
9dB a piece, sounds good to me
Can't find any waterblocks that fit my Intel DX38BT board though, which means that I can only watercool the CPU and GPU's. I guess I'm best off having two loops, one for CPU and one for GPU's?
Thanks for posting theese pics paradigm, should give me a few ideas to tidy my cables a bit better.Just so you guys can see where the cable routing is going on, excuse the mess
Yep, very good idea, i thought i had a cable tidy kit, which included the small adhesive pads with cable tie loops, sadly i binned it during a clean out, my atx 8 pin cable and usb's are stuck down with masking tape, ghetto style.
A71f owner here too ,best case i've had,mine is pretty much silent,i would avoid the yateloon 140mm as on full whack they are nosier than the stock lian li's.and very nice cable work mate,wish mine was as good as yours but seeing it prety much undercover i ain't to fussed
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Very nice setup you have there! Oddball choice of motherboard though. As mentioned, take any un-necessary fan grills off and get a bit better airflow and less turbulance noise... unless you have major ham-fists.
I recently got a PC-B25F with the same style HDD cage at the front. Needless to say Lian-Li missed a trick by not making the cage just a few mm wider to fit the drives with cables to the back. They could market an add-in hotswap backplane which I know I would buy! lol
As mentioned, take any un-necessary fan grills off and get a bit better airflow and less turbulance noise... unless you have major ham-fists.I recently got a PC-B25F with the same style HDD cage at the front. Needless to say Lian-Li missed a trick by not making the cage just a few mm wider to fit the drives with cables to the back. They could market an add-in hotswap backplane which I know I would buy! lol
paradigm that is one of the tidiest cases i've seen, mind blowing that you have hidden all the cabling for so much hardware.
Really nice setup and case hope you enjoy it
Cheers mate.
Very nice setup you have there! Oddball choice of motherboard though.
I recently got a PC-B25F with the same style HDD cage at the front. Needless to say Lian-Li missed a trick by not making the cage just a few mm wider to fit the drives with cables to the back. They could market an add-in hotswap backplane which I know I would buy! lol
Not sure how it was an "oddball" choice. The Intel BadAxe that preceeded it was highly regarded as one of the best S775 boards of the time, and the Bonetrail boards DX38BT and DX48BT2 were also highly regarded!
About the only "odd" thing about it is that it's a DDR3 S775 board!
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paradigm that is one of the tidiest cases i've seen, mind blowing that you have hidden all the cabling for so much hardware.
Really nice setup and case hope you enjoy it
It's the fact that he did it inside such a big case that impresses me. I thought about wiring stuff around the back of the mobo tray, but seeing as everything is so far apart in this case, I realised pretty quickly "as the crow flies" is the only way to get several of my cables to fit. There's no window, so I thought what the hell, nobody's seeing it anyway.
The ATX-12 (8-pin) is literally as close as it could be to not fitting. I originally wanted to take it right to the top (into the extra HDD rack), and then back down above the motherboard tray, but due to the cable length, as you can see, I had to go through the tray using the CPU cooler backplane hole. I was worried that it wasn't going to fit!
As for the drives, fortunately they are on molex splitters, giving me those extra 3-4 inches per extender, which is enough to go from drive to drive.
Had I tried to use the standard cabling, I'd have had to go direct.
Fortunately Lian Li seemed to think about this with regards to front panel cable length, and they are the perfect size to reach whilst staying hidden!
As for the drives, fortunately they are on molex splitters, giving me those extra 3-4 inches per extender, which is enough to go from drive to drive.
Had I tried to use the standard cabling, I'd have had to go direct.
Fortunately Lian Li seemed to think about this with regards to front panel cable length, and they are the perfect size to reach whilst staying hidden!