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Lian Li PC-V600 Mid-Tower Case
Inside the Case
Once I very carefully removed the case door, I was happy to see how well laid-out the insides are. Although the interior structures are thin, the edges are all doubled over and sanded to make certain that nothing's sharp. The hard drive cage is at the bottom, along with the PSU, putting the heavy stuff at the bottom. The optical drive cage makes no use of clutter-inducing tool-free stuff, but you might have to secure the far side of the drives if they vibrate. And even though I installed the drives first, the case is long enough that I had no problems installing the motherboard afterwards. Just don't install the power supply first. All of the cables are super-long, but there's a little shelf above the optical drive cage to stuff them into, and if you want to swap out the fans or just clean them, they're attached to plates for quick removal and re-installation. Despite being cramped, just about everything in the case is easy to access--good to know for the constant-adjuster of hardware.    Motherboard Tray The included screwdriver makes installing the motherboard standoffs easy. Just don't apply too much force or you'll strip the motherboard tray; it too, is aluminum. It's also fixed. I had no problems putting a full-length GTX 260 inside, the case is long. Maybe if you had equally long optical drives, you might hit a snag with things obstructing the expansion slots, but I'm fairly sure you could even hang a radiator off the back of the optical drive cage without running into full-length video cards. Power Supply There's tons of room for the power supply and space below it for cable management. The meshing on the floor of the case is strategically placed to ventilate dead air spots around the PSU, too. The space beneath it is also key for wide heatsinks that may hang off the top, I mean, the bottom of the motherboard.  The power supply is given a c-shaped foot to rest on, but it doesn't have any kind of vibration-dampening. I'd stick a stripe of foam tape over it before installing a power supply. Unlike the motherboard, the PSU does have a removable tray. You screw a plate onto the end of the power supply before sliding it into place. This allows you to install the power supply so that it gets fresh air through the case door or pulls air away from the CPU area. Drive Bays The optical drive bay is as simple as it gets, just some holes in some metal. The hard drive cage is much more interesting.   Instead of attaching rails to the hard drives, you use specific screws that slide into the rails built into the hard drive cage. They snap into place via plastic springs. The hard drive cage is a good compromise between springy vibration-dampening and secure installing. They are directly cooled by the cases intake fan, with a portion of the lower cage left open for air to pass through directly to the CPU--a kind of fresh air duct. The external 3.5" bay is a 5.25" bay with an adapter. It's simple but kind of idiot-proof, too.
Page 1: Introduction and First Looks
Page 2: Inside the Case Page 3: Cooling, Quality Check & Conclusion 
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