Lian Li PC-A70F

robgti · 7 Feb 2010 at 20:12

Hi all here are a couple of quick pictures of my Lian Li. Still got a lot to tidy up in it. Need a molex extension cable and im planning on a new quiet PSU and GPU.

setter · 7 Feb 2010 at 20:22

Nice to see it completed rob, looks good, did you change the stock rear fans? On mine the rears are plain black, led blue's in the front.

chipps101 · 7 Feb 2010 at 21:05

that motherboard looks tiny in there, is it a matx ?

robgti · 8 Feb 2010 at 10:33

Yeah i have changed all the fans apart from the top rear one. Its a ATX board just the way i took the pictures you can not see below the GPU. Also the case is huge inside.

panda_uk · 8 Feb 2010 at 12:43

You should check out paradigms case for cable management truly amazing.

robgti · 8 Feb 2010 at 12:43

Yeah that is who inspired me to get this case. Do not think i will ever get it as tidy as his tho

paradigm · 8 Feb 2010 at 17:32

Nice case, but come on, I'm sure you can get the cables neater than that

You got a CD/DVD bezel ordered yet?

chipps101 said:
that motherboard looks tiny in there, is it a matx ?

No, it's just the case is huge

panda_uk said:
You should check out paradigms case for cable management truly amazing.

Why thank you :cool:

chipps101 · 8 Feb 2010 at 17:44

if thats a full atx board in that case it must be bigger than my stacker then :eek:

robgti · 8 Feb 2010 at 17:45

No i have not ordered a bezel yet. Are they easy to fit? I rushed it last week to get everything in and it is just finding time when im not using it to tidy them all up.

I will get there in the end.......... hopefully

robgti · 8 Feb 2010 at 17:46

chipps101 said:
if thats a full atx board in that case it must be bigger than my stacker then

They really are huge inside. Compared to my last case a Antec P182 it is atleast 10cm higher and 10cm longer. Massive

paradigm · 8 Feb 2010 at 17:49

chipps101 said:
if thats a full atx board in that case it must be bigger than my stacker then

Mine has an E-ATX board in it. Along with 3 video cards, and 6 HDD's, everything still looks dwarfed and there is still plenty of free space.

setter · 8 Feb 2010 at 18:45

Yep, the amount of space inside is amazing, stuck a new gtx 275 video card in mine earlier, it looks lost in it.

EsaT · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:11

robgti said:
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg46/robgti_photo/S1050568.jpg

You can get cable of Zalman's power meter out from case using one of those holes for water cooling pipes. Just remove that plastic grommet, push cable out from hole and put grommet around it and then put grommet back to hole with cable in it. Also you can have connector just outside the case with cable's extra length wrapped in 5.5" bay behind MFC2.
No sense to waste expansion slot position just for getting one cable out...

chipps101 said:
if thats a full atx board in that case it must be bigger than my stacker then

Real Stackers (STC-T01/RC-810) are height wise really just above mid tower and bling bling fakes (83x) are just mid towers bloated with external crap.

chipps101 · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:28

lol thanks for calling my case a bling bling fake

i meant in length rather than height and i've never seen a longer case than my stacker in the flesh
is this case the same as paradigm's but without the door on the front ?

paradigm · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:40

chipps101 said:
lol thanks for calling my case a bling bling fake
i meant in length rather than height and i've never seen a longer case than my stacker in the flesh

These are longer than they are tall, and they are a full tower in height

chipps101 · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:45

i'd post a pic of my stacker so you could try and compare but you would have a heart attack at my cable management

i was thinking of the coolermaster cm-690 II advanced for my next case but i am loving these lian li's now after my htpc build in a lian li
the hard drives being mounted sideways definately adds a lot more room

EsaT · 9 Feb 2010 at 10:36

chipps101 said:
i meant in length rather than height and i've never seen a longer case than my stacker in the flesh

Measure dimensions of actual frame, not that of protruding external bling bling.

is this case the same as paradigm's but without the door on the front ?

Yes.
Differences between also V1010 and V1110, V2010 and V2110, A70A/B and A71A/B and A7010 and A7110 is that model with one extra 1 in place of 0 has door.
(B-70 and B-71 are exception to this formula)

chipps101 · 9 Feb 2010 at 10:46

EsaT said:
Measure dimensions of actual frame, not that of protruding external bling bling.

i am going by the internal dimensions without the bling bling, the stacker is one very long case even without the bling