The Offical Lian Li PC-A05 Owners Discussion/Modding Thread!

vincent1989 · 15 Feb 2009 at 08:36

datawrite said:
What is cable management like?

depends what revision you get, mine had none, but others do have cable holes in the mobo

datawrite said:
Is it easy to cut holes in the mobo tray to hide wires?

easy as any

datawrite said:
Case good at cooling?

can't be bad or it wouldn't be a favourite on an overclocking forum, it's not the best but you can mod if fairly easily

Ricickle · 15 Feb 2009 at 11:02

just bought one of these
hopefully going to watercool this thing to the max.
its going to be tight anyway but should be fun.

rodo · 15 Feb 2009 at 11:40

Just ordered one of these in a system OcUK are building, should be good

Slinkie · 15 Feb 2009 at 12:40

Here's mine after a bit of hacking.

Specs are Q9650 currently at 4.1 but desperately trying to get it higher
GTX280
4gb OCZ ram

Water loop is as follows

Thermochill PA120.2 cooled by 2 Sharkoon 1000s > Res sat on PSU > pump > 120mm rad with fans psuh pull (akaska silent and a Noctua 1300rpm) > EK supreme > EK GTX280 block > Thermochill PA120.2

The NB is cooled by a 92mm akaska silent fan (No fan in the case is over 20db, it is very quiet but nice and cool.) The pump is silent on a large piece of foam that came as packaging materials.

The mods were the rad grill on the top, the hole on the side to allow better flow over the motherboard.

The fornt hole is the exhaust to help remove all the heat from the case and also help the heat from the PSU escape. I don't think the case did a good job of this originally.

phinix · 15 Feb 2009 at 16:13

Ricickle said:
just bought one of these
hopefully going to watercool this thing to the max.
its going to be tight anyway but should be fun.

Hi, cool, so what stuff are you gonna push in this case?
You didn't mention anything that you were interested in this case

phinix · 15 Feb 2009 at 16:14

Slinkie said:
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Very nice. One question - is this aluminium block under the pump necessary to keep pump steady?

Slinkie · 15 Feb 2009 at 16:29

phinix said:
Very nice. One question - is this aluminium block under the pump necessary to keep pump steady?

It probably isn't necessary, however I bought it before I got any decent foan to mount it on, by itself it's not that good but I just couldn't be bothered to take it off again. It does however increase the base area of the pump which means it is a bit more stable on the foam.

phinix · 15 Feb 2009 at 17:07

ok, thanks. why did you add that 120mm rad? Temps were too high?

Slinkie · 15 Feb 2009 at 17:44

I wanted to lower my temps a little bit but also I was a little bit bored and just fancied tinkering with my case. At the same time I lapped my CPU (I had a Q9550 in there before the Q9650) and swapped some fans around and it knocked 10 degrees off my load temps. Not sure how much of that was due to the extra rad ( probably only 2-3 degrees) but it's better than nothing!

Ricickle · 15 Feb 2009 at 20:23

phinix said:
Hi, cool, so what stuff are you gonna push in this case?
You didn't mention anything that you were interested in this case

yeah i was about to get a 7fb but then i seen this

ive ordered the case and i should be getting a pa120.2 next week

ill then possibly be putting a thinner rad along the bottom or a single rad on either the exhaust or intake.

and if my bonus is good this year it will be a matx i7 set-up going inside

Monkey Puzzle · 15 Feb 2009 at 20:51

The aluminium block's more for cooling I think as the bottom of the pump housing the rotor can get hot and potentially fail.

yashiro · 15 Feb 2009 at 21:12

Can you attach the standard Lian Li wheel assembly to the A05 out of the box or does it require some extra drilling work?

phinix · 16 Feb 2009 at 07:44

Monkey Puzzle said:
The aluminium block's more for cooling I think as the bottom of the pump housing the rotor can get hot and potentially fail.

Can it really get that hot that needs cooling? Maybe create a water block for pump?

Kanifee · 17 Feb 2009 at 17:33

Well i know its been a while but i thought id post that my camera charger i have been waiting on for about 3 weeks has arrived so ill take some pics of my A05 as soon as i have finished cleaning up the corners on my window that i cut yesterday, looks pretty nice, all i need is some cathodes to light it up; cant decide on blue or white, that and powder coated innerds

Blackhawk47 · 17 Feb 2009 at 19:15

damian666 said:
Well i know its been a while but i thought id post that my camera charger i have been waiting on for about 3 weeks has arrived so ill take some pics of my A05 as soon as i have finished cleaning up the corners on my window that i cut yesterday, looks pretty nice, all i need is some cathodes to light it up; cant decide on blue or white, that and powder coated innerds

If you got the black one id be inclined to give white a go. Would look sweet

Andy` · 28 Feb 2009 at 21:31

Purchased my PC-A05b about a week back, i love it!

Felt the need for a side fan but didn't want to shell out the price for the BS-03, so i used some cable ties instead lol, GHETTO

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Sorry for the picture quality, was taken with phone.

Andy`

vincent1989 · 1 Mar 2009 at 08:07

Andy` said:
Purchased my PC-A05b about a week back, i love it!

Felt the need for a side fan but didn't want to shell out the price for the BS-03, so i used some cable ties instead lol, GHETTO !

Sorry for the picture quality, was taken with phone.

Andy`

make a cheap card baffle (possibly not the right word) but basically add half a box to make it work exactly the same as the BS-03

speaking of updates i've ordered my processor, had to go a bit more budget than i'd originally planned, but hey, i can always upgrade more later, an E5200 if anyone is interested, just the GPU and the OS to go, should be finished in 26 days and counting

Andy` · 1 Mar 2009 at 11:05

vincent1989 said:
make a cheap card baffle (possibly not the right word) but basically add half a box to make it work exactly the same as the BS-03

speaking of updates i've ordered my processor, had to go a bit more budget than i'd originally planned, but hey, i can always upgrade more later, an E5200 if anyone is interested, just the GPU and the OS to go, should be finished in 26 days and counting

I leave my side panel off so no need to really.

Andy`

vincent1989 · 1 Mar 2009 at 14:06

Andy` said:
I leave my side panel off so no need to really.

Andy`

fair enough, is there really any need of the fan then? (does it lower temperature enough to justify the added noise?

Andy` · 1 Mar 2009 at 15:39

vincent1989 said:
fair enough, is there really any need of the fan then? (does it lower temperature enough to justify the added noise?

Yes, the GFX card idles around 52-55 then shoots up around 63-65 on load, with the added fan it knocks off about 5, the fan is a silent eagle 1000 so there ain't too much noise.

Andy`