My Lian Li PC-A71F

Yeah only the top two bays have the screwless fitment, however all the bays are tool-less if you use thumbscrews for the rest of them.

It was "easy" to get the case tidy, but it involved a bit of lateral thinking, time, and a number of cable ties :p

I'm just looking at it now thinking "I really should try fitting one of the rounded IDE cable end peices of rubber to the ATX connector to hide the mass of wires sticking out of the end of the braiding".

Effort++
 
I got a nice black sleeved 8 pin extension, sadly though the place i got it in didnt have sleeved 24 pin extensions, though ive seen people on here who have bought them.
 
Ok. Maybe with it having a door then there is no point. Would add that final touch to it tho. Now how would i hide it for the wife when it gets delivered?
 
That is some great work you've done there with the cabling. This is what every case should look like. A bit of thought and time, you can achieve a tidy and clean flowing case.

I remember spending around 7 hours transferring hardware over to my old V2000 case once. Felt more like a week until it was complete! Doesn't help as I'm fussy about the minimal and clean look. must have used about 100 cable ties too :p

Overall its a
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Bennah said:
That is some great work you've done there with the cabling. This is what every case should look like. A bit of thought and time, you can achieve a tidy and clean flowing case.
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You can indeed, I have just finished installing a machine in my old case (Coolermaster ATCS-201-SXK) from spare parts (Abit IP35-PRO, E6600, 8GB Kingston Hyper-X, 2x 250GB sata drives, DVD-RW), and I've even managed to get that tidy, in a case really not laid out for it. I'll post up a pic when I get home.

Bennah said:
I remember spending around 7 hours transferring hardware over to my old V2000 case once. Felt more like a week until it was complete! Doesn't help as I'm fussy about the minimal and clean look. must have used about 100 cable ties too :p
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I'm pretty fussy about general tidiness too, hence my desk is also minimalistic and clean. I actually need to go and buy some more tie-wraps, I've used 500 since about August :D
 
That is an inspiring case & setup paradigm. I have bought a baby (in comparison) LianLi recently from OcUK and am going to be switching over this weekend. The improvement on my case is vast!

I don't have as much hardware as you but after seeing your pics I am really gunning this weekend to get my case as tidy as possible.

I can forsee the biggest problem is with PSU cables. If you switch the PSU upside down (fan blowing upwards) would that not push the hot air up past the CPU and not help much with the cooling?

I do like the idea of shoving redundant cables under the PSU though, nice place to stash them!
 
Knubje said:
I can forsee the biggest problem is with PSU cables. If you switch the PSU upside down (fan blowing upwards) would that not push the hot air up past the CPU and not help much with the cooling?
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The internal fan on a PSU (large 120mm usually) is an intake. The exhaust is the 80mm on the back.
 
paradigm said:
The internal fan on a PSU (large 120mm usually) is an intake. The exhaust is the 80mm on the back.
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I see, so the air blows out of the case where your cable enters it. I will have to check mine but that sounds much better than not. So there is no harm in putting it upside down in all honesty?

I assume your case has the slit vents below where the PSU mounts at the bottom of the case? Mine does and that is to help air out the bottom of the case apparently. Not sure how that would work.
 
Knubje said:
I see, so the air blows out of the case where your cable enters it. I will have to check mine but that sounds much better than not. So there is no harm in putting it upside down in all honesty?

I assume your case has the slit vents below where the PSU mounts at the bottom of the case? Mine does and that is to help air out the bottom of the case apparently. Not sure how that would work.
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Nope, no "real" harm in mounting it the other way up, but remember that will put the ATX lead of the PSU at the opposite corner, further away from the motherboard tray.

Can't remember if it has slits or not, pretty sure it doesn't.
 
Well it looks like i will be ordering one of these at the end of the week. I watched the video review and it seems a pain to get to the front 140mm fans. Do you think it is worth changing them for quieter ones?
 
Looks like i will do the same. Might as well do everything when i first get it instead of having to take everything back out.
 
Lush build would love that case!

How do you find your physx? ive got xfire 5870's but when i enabled physx got really bad tearing and only really got 50% of the display any tips?

how much storage are you running on that onboard controler?
 
kerrgreg said:
Lush build would love that case!

How do you find your physx? ive got xfire 5870's but when i enabled physx got really bad tearing and only really got 50% of the display any tips?

how much storage are you running on that onboard controler?
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No problems with tearing from what I can tell, but then the only thing I've run with physx calculation is 3DMark Vantage up until now. Keep meaning to get round to playing Batman:AA, but I'm a bit addicted to MW2 at the moment :p

Storage wise, that's 6 320GB disks in RAID5, which gives me about 1.4TB of usable space with blistering performance :)
 
really thats interesting;

3dmark vantage really tears badly with me do you need to use a specific driver im just on the latest one

Thats interesting too as I had 3 1.5tb drives in raid 5 and the performance was rubbish like 3mb/s went for a deicated controler and wow speedy!
 
What forceware driver are you running, what version of physx mod are you running, and are any of your cards overclocked?
 
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