My Lian Li PC-A71F

Had to use an 8 pin extension, due to the backplate on the board and the cpu cooler bracket, i couldnt get the cable through the cut out. On your system paradigm, what did you do regarding the front fans, mine are temporarily connected to the motherboard, right on the edge next to the hdd cages (one near bottom and one near top) going to replace the stock fans and fit a 5.25 bay fan controller.

Probably just make them out in this pic.
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If you look at the picture below, you can see where the fans (all of them except the one next to the CPU cooler, which is motherboard headder installed) are plugged into.

The front fan leads run along that bracket at the bottom of the case (along with the front panel wiring, power, sata, etc), and are daisy-chained together behind the PSU. The top fan joins the daisy-chain after running down the back of the motherboard tray. They are then easily attached with one molex, and the spare cabling from the PSU is under the PSU itself.

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Hope you don't mind me answering paradigm, but given I was there when you set it up, I know the answer :p
 
Cheers, may take them off and just use a molex, my top most rear case fan is connected to one of theese.

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Along with the 2 pwm fans on my cpu cooler (case fan runs full speed, cooler fans ramp up/down according o cpu temp). The lower rear fan is connected to a mobo 3 pin header a few inches from the fan. May change that fan as i have a third pwm fan that i could place there, then switch it onto the pwm cable.
 
hi mate what is the sound levels like i just bought a antec p183, like the looks of the lian li case is the air flow and noise levels just as good as the antec p183 ?

thanks

nice setup
 
It's pretty quiet, but not silent. I am changing the fans for 9dB items in the near future though, which should drop the noise quite considerably.

Watercooling for the rest of the system will leave me as close as I can get to silent.
 
This is the single biggest problem with mine.

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Non modular psu, which means a mass of unused cables in the botom of the case, with nowhere to put them
 
Would it effect the intake of the psu fan, being as theres not a lot of space beween the bottom of the psu and the case floor?
 
In theory, if a fan is moving a fixed amount of air, it will draw it through regardless, however the introduction of cables in the way will increase air turbulence and subsequently, noise.

My PSU doesn't have an intake fan (just the 80mm on the rear for the exhaust), so it's not an issue.
 
Ill have a go and see how it fares, will be adding a new graphics card in a few days time, so ill use the opportunity to rearrange things a bit. Thanks very much for your advice and the various pics youve posted paradigm, should help a lot.:)
 
Meridiusuk said:
hi mate what is the sound levels like i just bought a antec p183, like the looks of the lian li case is the air flow and noise levels just as good as the antec p183 ?
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Design itself is even slightly more closed with lack of top holes but for getting similar noise containing you need to install combination damping mats (or mass and foam separately) because single metal sheet isn't acoustically opaque.


paradigm said:
for 9dB items
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Which means BS.
They would get that same value for battleship's broadside.


Colossus said:
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.
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There's no danger of fingers getting into rear exhaust fan from inside and there definitely isn't danger of any cable gonig into it.
 
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setter said:
Would it effect the intake of the psu fan, being as theres not a lot of space beween the bottom of the psu and the case floor?
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can you turn the psu upside down so the fan is on the top? ;)

you could mount the psu at the top of the case instead aswell might be easier to hide a crap load of wires up there just masking tape them to the underside of the top of the case
 
Turning the psu upside down would still leave me with the same mess at the botom, top mounting is a possibility, though id still have a lot of cables not in use that woud need hiding. Im gonna change the psu soon to a modular unit (incidentally, when i got this psu, i actually ordered a modular version, they sent a standard model instead, not ocuk) Decided to keep it so i could get the system built.
 
Turning the psu upside down would still leave me with the same mess at the botom,
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yea but i meant you could put all the extra mess under the psu without having to worry about them blocking a fan if the psu was upside down ^^
 
Lovely looking case. Can i ask what is the cage for on the top left? is it so you can mount the PSU up there?
 
robgti said:
Lovely looking case. Can i ask what is the cage for on the top left? is it so you can mount the PSU up there?
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its a cage with a 120mm fan and a rack for mounting more hardisks.

but you can move the cage to the bottom and mount the psu at the top instead.

also theres another backplate for a psu with the case for people who for some reason would need 2 psu's
 
arknor said:
its a cage with a 120mm fan and a rack for mounting more hardisks.

but you can move the cage to the bottom and mount the psu at the top instead.

also theres another backplate for a psu with the case for people who for some reason would need 2 psu's
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For power mad people. I like the look of these cases but not sure if i could justify paying that much just for a case.

What is the noise like with the standard fans?
 
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