Lian li PC V300

Sandmaster500 · 8 Aug 2006 at 13:40

and still at the great price

Can't wait to see what other people do with this case, should imagine it'll be a good case to mod.

Gaspode · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:05

woohoo - mines just come - I have given a good inspection and it looks very nice

bigger than I thought it was going to be. the box of goodies is trapped in the hardrive cage so I can't fiddle with that

now comes mission 'sneak it past girlee n build it up to surprise her laters'.

Messiah Khan · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:12

You mean 'sneak it past girlee so she won't kill you for spending more money on computer parts'

Gaspode · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:39

messiah khan said:
You mean 'sneak it past girlee so she won't kill you for spending more money on computer parts'

hehe - not as bad as that - I originally ordered it from another retailer but it failed to show - the case change was sposed to be part of me girlees birthday pressy.

I'll be putting her BioStar 330P up for sale soon.

Av8 · 11 Aug 2006 at 00:07

I've bought this case and i still won't be able to get my Zalman CNPS9500-AM2 Aero Flower (Socket AM2/939/754) CPU Cooler (HS-021-ZA) into this case

Doh! Totally Gutted!

theleg · 11 Aug 2006 at 10:02

I hope to god this is still in stock on monday.

Fatboy · 11 Aug 2006 at 10:07

Selling like hot cakes m8 to be honest and the Next stock is 6 weeks away.

I would get order in A.S.A.P

Silver is Most populat twice the sales to black.

Yewen · 11 Aug 2006 at 12:02

I can't believe they are still selling this well. I can understand a huge initial surge for a new case due to a month or so of previews, but such continued demand for this case shows either OcUK have it priced very very well (

) or that its a cracking case (

).

On my list of cases to get, was going to put down the cash for one today but got an ATCs 500 instead.

R5D4 · 11 Aug 2006 at 12:14

9" GFX - how can you tell ?

I'm looking at pairing this this with a 6300+ASRock MATX but am worried about the 9" GFX card restriction - which cards must be avoided? would a 7600GS be ok?

Messiah Khan · 11 Aug 2006 at 13:50

Look at some of the manufacturers information sheets such as;
http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/512-P2-N548.pdf
This one for example is 8.98" so it would be very tight.

R5D4 · 11 Aug 2006 at 14:03

thanks - much better than trying to guess by looking at some compressed picture...

Gaspode · 11 Aug 2006 at 14:24

I wouldn't have thought a 7600 would give any bother length wise - the ones that would are probably 7900/7950's

I put a x850 in it and it was fine.

one thing to note is the side fan extractor is very slim - if you want to replace it with a coloured one make sure it's a 15mm one.

I have a spare Akasa blue kicking about but it was too chunky - the fan blades touched the h/s/f on the processor.

very straight forward build last night - took about 2 hours or so.

my woman was very pleased with it - I sneaked it in while she was in the kitchen and built it during the evening.

nice lot of room inside the cd/dvd holder - I managed to pust a lot of unwanted power cables inside.

the hd area sits right over the sata connectors on the mobo I have so that was a nice bonus.

the case sides have 6 small screws each to take out - they are very small too so make sure you have a small cross headed screwdriver to hand.

Av8 · 11 Aug 2006 at 17:48

Gaspode said:
the case sides have 6 small screws each to take out - they are very small too so make sure you have a small cross headed screwdriver to hand.

I've had a major problem with these screws, getting undone was a nightmare to say the least. I've managed to get them out, but 2 have a least more or less stripped the head to use a screwdriver on them again. Anyone any idea's where i could get some replacment screws please?

Thanks

Yewen · 11 Aug 2006 at 17:59

You were using the wrong screwdriver then!

Contact Lian Li, they should send you out a bag with a few in no problem.

Av8 · 11 Aug 2006 at 18:14

Yewen said:
You were using the wrong screwdriver then!

Mate i'm a mechanic by trade, i'm used to using the correct tools for the job in hand. I doubt very much i've used the wrong screwdriver, as been mentioned the aluminium reacting to the screws and bonding tighter than they (Lian-li) probably anticipated. I've built many a pc over the years, just not sure on where to get screws from but thanks for the heads up to get in touch with Lian-li.

Sandmaster500 · 11 Aug 2006 at 18:15

I would say it's perhaps the most annoying thing about this case. Why one earth didn't they just put slide on panels! I would look neater and get rid of the need to unscrew 12 screws to get both sides off.

theleg · 11 Aug 2006 at 19:37

Fatboy said:
Selling like hot cakes m8 to be honest and the Next stock is 6 weeks away.

I would get order in A.S.A.P

Silver is Most populat twice the sales to black.

just placed an order for 2...i can understand why they are so popular..sex in case form.

Herminator · 11 Aug 2006 at 22:57

Yeah the screws were a pain the rear for me. I'm used to this type of screw with RC cars, which also have a problem with aluminium reacting to create too tight a bond. In that situation I've always changed the screws for titanium hex head ones, not cheap but on an RC car every gram counts. I think for this case I'll just get some steel ones, you want M3 x6, they seem reasonably cheap *competitor*. Only problem is they'll be silver on my black case. I could get some aluminium ones from RC shops that would be anodized black but then aluminium is soft and could strip again.

prism · 13 Aug 2006 at 03:08

The PC-V300 will be my new case as well.
Gonna hack it up to fit a dual radiator for water cooling.
And since I will hack it up anyway, the NVidia 7900GTX will fit nicely too :-)

theleg · 15 Aug 2006 at 15:56

my two babies arrived this afternoon...god theyre sexy.