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: Lian Li PC-70 Aluminium Full Tower Computer Case
Lian Li PC-70 Aluminium Full Tower
Computer Case
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So what do you
get for all that money? Glad you asked.
The PC-70 has swivelling feet,
which you can swing out for extra stability, or leave tucked under the case
if you feel like living dangerously. They're made of ordinary beige plastic,
but the bits you can see when the case isn't upside down are painted silver.
As with the other Lian Li cases,
almost everything's held together with thumbscrews. The cases come from
the factory with many of the thumbscrews tightened hard enough that a screwdriver
may well come in handy, but remove 'em once and you won't need the driver
again.
The back panel. The two middle
80mm fan mounts have three-wire speed-reporting fans installed as standard;
the top two mounts and the three teeny 40mm mounts at the bottom are fanless,
out of the box.
The PSU mounts to the plate
at the top of the back panel, which is held in place by six ordinary Philips
head screws. You remove the plate, you attach the PSU, you slide the assembly
back into the case. This also makes it easy to attach fans to the top two
80mm mounts, if you want to.
Undo three thumbscrews, slide
off the side panel, and the innards are revealed.
Bays, bays, bays. Lots of bays.
You can get tower cases as tall
and wide as the PC-70 (though usually not as deep) which have something
like seven 3.5 inch bays and five 5.25 inch. See, for instance, the old
but still
popular In Win Q500 it review here.
Now, that many bays is enough
for most computers, to be sure. But if you want to get freaky with the 3.5
inch devices, bizatch (as I believe the kids say these days), then the PC-70
is the case for you.
The top batch of bays are the
5.25 inchers, and the PC-70's got six of them.
Under those, three 3.5 inch
bays with front panel cut-outs.
Under those, six more 3.5 inch
bays.
Looks odd, right?
Doesn't look like any 3.5 inch
bays you've ever seen, right?
