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Lian Li PC-70 Aluminium Full Tower
Computer Case
If you fall into one of the
following categories, you want one of these cases.
1) People with sleek chrome-and-black
household or office decor who want a big serious-looking PC to match.
2) People who want a well-engineered tower case with lots of drive bays
and good cooling, that doesn't weigh much.
3) People who want a nifty base chassis for a hot-rod modified machine with
water cooling, Peltier elements, windows, neon, lava lamp, fluffy dice,
all that stuff.
4) People whose friends have Lian Li cases, and who must have a bigger one,
for reasons they're going to have to work out in therapy one day.
Lian Li, in case you don't know,
make spiffy aluminium computer cases. They're easy to work on, they look
great, they're light, and they're well cooled.
Lian Li make mini-towers with
as many drive bays as midi-towers (I review one here),
they make midi-towers with as much room as some full towers (I review one
here), and now
they've made a full tower, too.
The styling of the new PC-70's
easy enough to describe - it's just like the little PC-30 or the mid-sized
PC-60, only much
bigger. Plain brushed aluminium all over the place, except for the front
button bezel and the top and bottom of the front panel...
...which are done in shiny fake
carbon fibre. Which, unlike much fake carbon fibre, actually looks like
carbon fibre.
There are no mould lines. There
are no poorly fitting parts. There is nothing that rattles, nothing that
jams, and nothing with a razor-sharp edge waiting for the unwary.
Lian Li make cases with less
brushed metal on the outside, like the PC-31,
but the silver ones look like stainless steel European kitchen appliances.
You'll spoil their looks somewhat if you install floppy and CD-ROM drives
with beige front bezels (you can get
around this, but it's not trivial), but beige on silver still
looks better than beige on black.
