Lian-Li PC-7

manjuice · 8 Mar 2007 at 17:39

Will this case fit
Zalman 9700
8800 GTX in SLI
and have all bays available?

Also from a review, the case power button uses a 3 pin, but a evga 680i has a 2pin. How do i fix this problem?

Thanks

BFG_9000 · 8 Mar 2007 at 17:48

Yes...

manjuice · 8 Mar 2007 at 17:59

BFG_9000 said:
Yes...

what about "Also from a review, the case power button uses a 3 pin, but a evga 680i has a 2pin. How do i fix this problem?"

manoz · 8 Mar 2007 at 18:19

If it's anything like my akasa eclipse which has a three pin power thing where only two of them are actually used then you will have to cut off the pin which hasn't got a wire going to it. Bit of modding needed unfortuantely.

manjuice · 8 Mar 2007 at 18:32

manoz said:
If it's anything like my akasa eclipse which has a three pin power thing where only two of them are actually used then you will have to cut off the pin which hasn't got a wire going to it. Bit of modding needed unfortuantely.

what do you mean by "only two of them are actually used"?
does that mean i can cut the third pin off without any damage to power/mb?
how hard is it to do this?

sorry for all the qs. + thanks

manoz · 8 Mar 2007 at 18:38

Mine was like this, this is a diagram of the connector from the case. The || representing the wires.

||...||
||...||
||...||
.1.2.3.

Only pin 1 and 3 have wires going to them. I cut off pin 2. so it could fit on the 2 pin header on my mobo. No need to mod the mobo, only the power light cable header.

Cut it with a sharp scalpel

flunky404 · 8 Mar 2007 at 18:40

Hi
I had to do the same to my case.The power led is 3 pin but the middle hole is empty.I just took a junior hacksaw holding the connector with a pair of pliers and cut down through the middle hole being careful so you are left with the 2 pins.You could use a stanley knife to do the same.Job done

manjuice · 8 Mar 2007 at 18:47

@manoz + flunky404 ty

flunky404 said:
Hi
I had to do the same to my case.The power led is 3 pin but the middle hole is empty.I just took a junior hacksaw holding the connector with a pair of pliers and cut down through the middle hole being careful so you are left with the 2 pins.You could use a stanley knife to do the same.Job done

how is your GTS in the case? is it tight for space?

InvaderGIR · 8 Mar 2007 at 19:53

My PC-7 has a 2pin power button, and a 3section power LED, which can easily be split with some wire cutters...but my Asus board came with a riser that meant I didn't need to split it (but I've done it for other cases).

InvG

SpudMaster · 8 Mar 2007 at 20:30

BFG_9000 said:
Yes...

have you actually tried to fit 2 8800gtx's in a pc7 with the hdd cage still in place?

I got a x1900xtx in mine, for one card there is plenty of room but im not sure if a 2 8800gtx's would fit if 3 hdds were in the cage. It would be close with 2 x1900xtx's and 8800gtx's are about an inche longer

manjuice · 8 Mar 2007 at 20:55

SpudMaster said:
have you actually tried to fit 2 8800gtx's in a pc7 with the hdd cage still in place?

I got a x1900xtx in mine, for one card there is plenty of room but im not sure if a 2 8800gtx's would fit if 3 hdds were in the cage. It would be close with 2 x1900xtx's and 8800gtx's are about an inche longer

Thanks for this.
This means 2x 8800gtx in PC-7 is a no?

Im guessing PC-A10B will have no problems at all?