LIAN LI PC-A05NB Black Computer Case

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1. Light weighttwo. Fashionable in minimalist sort of waythree. Additional space for components than you would anticipate4. Revolutionary layout makes for a smaller sized footprint 1. Cable management is non-existent2. Front panel needs removing 4 small screws to take offthree. Motheboard standoffs slightly off from typical ATX. I really like this case, save for several little irritations. I purchased an optional top rated cover with a 140mm fan mount and it definitely assists to exhaust the heat that pools up there. I also have a GTX 260 with an Arctic Cooling Accelero mounted on it (three fans) and even with that beast it fits with room to spare. Wonderful.Phenom II 965GTX 260 w/ AC AcceleroPc Energy and Cooling 750W (has front facing fan - no best fan to dump hot air back in the case)With that setup and the 140mm top rated exhaust fan I idle at 32C for the CPU and 36C for the GPU in a relatively cool space. Load temps when gaming are 40C and 55C. Not bad!

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Appears as effective in person as it does in the images. Really good finish, not heavy, and wonderful directions! Strong case compared to other people I've employed. None so far. Haven't installed anything in the case however so I don't have any feedback on that.

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Outstanding case, no difficulties at all. I have two 4470s installed without issue. A lot of area, good excellent and low noise. Enjoy the reverse air movement and the reverse mounting of the mobo. None I saved about 30% -40% building over buying a brand name, and I have hand picked hardware.

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This case fits an ATX motherboard with space to spare. When it mounts upside-down, I consider this truly improves heat dissipation. For one particular, it spreads in the open space inside the case, enabling the fans to do their job far better.The Core i7 930 inside the rig I built in no way passes the high 40s, which seems pretty good using stock cooling. If you're like me and you have a desktop currently on your desk, then chances are that you like obtaining the left panel open for simple access to the innards (secretly you just like seeking at the wires, and cards, right?). If this is you, than this case will mildly annoy you with it's appropriate-panel opening.I also discovered the bottom of the case to be a bit crowded for the power provide cables and the like. I have them bound with each other, but they type a solid bundle of wires that raise up some and look to *almost* get in the way of some items, though not really.I actually wish it had more USB connectors, and that the two supplied weren't on major of the case. If the front bezel had been in 3 separate pieces with the drives, power provide and front panel/USB/buttons regions, this case would be completely amazing; rather we'll just have to settle for Rad to the Bone. The front panel easily pops off with a very good tug. When you hook up your power supply (which will be in the reduce front region of the case), just grab hold of the front of the case and yank it appropriate off. That's where you'll then plug it in and turn on the power supply's kill-switch. As it's been stated, the power supply could go any way you're comfy, as Lian Li thought adequate to give it airflow above and below the provide.

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Best of the line, match almost everything from a mid tower into a mini nothing

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-Quiet-Properly Built -Minimalistic-Sharp Looks -I'm personally not a fan of the difficult drive mounts. -The reversed orientation of the mobo and the power provide is odd...It requires some forethought with cable placement but it performs beautifully.

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Fit and finish are superb. This case is quite light in weight. That's a Good thing. Very roomy inside also. Also, the guidelines are quite great. I can essentially make sense of the included photos. What a treat! The wire harnesses are extended enough for any construct. The fans are extremely quiet and function extremely effectively for me. Everything works like it is supposed to. None at all. I have never observed any case with a design like this. No doubt that the designers at Lian Li place a lot of believed into this case. It's a fantastic design. That blue Energy LED lamp is extremely vivid--That's not a Con although. It's neither too huge nor too tiny. I adore this case! It is wonderful to give such a glowing evaluation on one thing that I purchased!

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Gorgeous anodized exterior finish, lightweight but sturdy construction, exclusive but well believed out interior design, a lot of room for total sized hardware in a compact size, fantastic airflow, motherboard cutout hole for uncomplicated installation of retention brackets, mod friendly. The only con I can actually give this case doesn't even really belong to the case, but to the stock fans it comes with. They really don't push significantly air and are rather loud for my tastes. This does not merit the removal of an egg rating as I was organizing on replacing them anyways which is most folks do. Get some better fans if you acquire this beauty. For added cooling energy, addition of 120mm fan blowholes on the top panel make this case a beast at maintaining your hardware cool.

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Straightforward to function with. Good create quality. Really quiet fans. Lots of extra screws. Cool three.5" drive mounts. The 5.25" drive bays would have been nicer if they had the straightforward-install clips on each sides as an alternative of just 1 side.

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-Refined style and layout-Fits complete ATX with room to spare-Wide adequate for significant heatsinks -Only 3 difficult drive bays I purchased this to cram my media server into. Despite the fact that it under no circumstances leaves the corner, I wanted a box that doesn't appear like a rave inside of a spaceship. This fit the bill perfectly. I would have liked another challenging drive bay but for a mini tower this is a fair quantity. Considering that I have no external drives in this method I will have to convert the external drive bays to HDD bays when these 3 are filled.

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Fits a full-size ATX PSU and MoboStays cool due to special style (fan sucks PSU air out front of case)Fantastic construction+++! "Longer" than expected. I need to have employed a ruler, oh nicely.

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It's all aluminum, no flashy lights or windows, so this situation will be reusable for several of my builds. The power provide has clearance on all sides (top, bottom, front and back) so it doesn't matter exactly where the fans are situated on it - there will be airflow. That was a concern of mine. I'm working with a micro-ATX board, but there's far more than sufficient room for a complete ATX one particular. Room for practically any size CPU fan/heatsink combo, and even the biggest video cards will fit. Aluminum case has a brushed texture, and I don't have fingerprint problems like other individuals mention, but I do tend to hold computer systems by their edges when I move them so that could be why. Thumb screws for the case cover, power provide rack, and drives. You'll need to have a screwdriver to install the motherboard, cards, and power supply (to mount to its rack). Good quality construction all the way through. I'll be finding at least two far more of these this year. none

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This case is excellent! Aluminum is very light and sturdy, really handful of places with sharp edges. Installation was super effortless, and plenty of space for all my devices. Working with a modular PS, you can actually cut down on the wiring and leave a lot of air space for cooling in this situation. usually heard Lian Li was the greatest, but this was my initially situation from them. I was an Antec guy for years - By no means once again! Front ports are placed nicely for effortless access. 120mm fan is extremely quiet but extremely successful. LED is extremely vibrant. It would be good if you could adjust the brightness of LEDs, but I just unplugged them as an alternative. If you're hunting for a ultra quiet, smaller footprint situation that's not a tiny HTPC box - this is it. Great for property media server or mid-level gaming rigs alike. I use this situation for each.

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effectively built. superior craftsmanship. excellent cooling system! uncommon design but right after a couple of days of scratching my head at it... i started asking myself why haven't they been developing case's like this for years. lots of space. face plate is uncomplicated to get rid of. did i mention the cooling technique is fantastic. solid case! nada a single this case is hand crafted and your can inform. there had been NO imperfections in my situation AT ALL. easy clean appear! enjoy it! im so tired of quickly and furious situations.

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Wonderful aesthetics, I considerably choose the plain front panel to the "busy" look most situations have. Value is excellent for an all aluminum Lian Li situation. Compact, but can fit a complete size ATX board, longer graphics cards, a huge CPU heatsink, and so on. The unconventional airflow arrangement (rear intake, front exhaust) keeps the CPU really awesome, but at the expense of tricky drive temps, which run a small warmer due to the fact the fan in front of them is exhausting the warm air from the case. Some minor gripes: As many of the reviews point out, cooling for the PCI location isn't that wonderful. If you program to place one or numerous high-finish video cards in this case, you seriously really should get the replacement prime panel with 140mm fan mount (if you see the T-LM14B-two in stock at NewEgg, don't hesitate to get it, they tend to sell out quickly and it takes a whilst for more to come in stock) and/or 1 of Lian Li's PCI cooling kits. Airflow for power supplies with a 120mm+ fan on the bottom isn't excellent. If you mount the fan facing up it will be proper up against the hard drive cage, which restricts airflow. Flipping it more than is much less restrictive, but there's nevertheless only a smaller gap (half an inch possibly) amongst the PSU fan and the bottom of the case for it to pull in air. Not perfect, and some sacrifices naturally had to be made for compactness, but overall a good case with a unique set of attributes.

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The initially issue I noticed on unpacking was that the situation is built solidly and completed in a refined way. The brushed aluminum looks fantastic and provides it a light but sturdy really feel when you are lifting it by it's edges. There are no rough spots - everything fits tightly and cleanly. The sides slide off quickly when the external thumb screws are removed and they click nicely into place when you reattach them.The directions are sufficient and the situation comes with little bags full of all the odds-and-sods that you need to put with each other your computer.I was impressed with the HD mounts (thumb screws -- no screw-drivers required). The thumb screws are fitted with rubber grommets. You screw these onto the sides of your HD and then slide your HD into the mounting brackets. The edges of the brackets fit into the grooves cut into the rubber grommets. It offers a solid fit nevertheless has some 'give' as you snug items down and cable up. The challenging drives are also acoustically isolated from the situation by this. Space inside the case is sufficient, but as you load up your elements anticipate points to be a tiny snug in there. Some fiddling and temporary disconnection of cables may possibly be necessary as you get every thing loaded.The energy supply is front-mounted. Be positive to choose a PSU that pulls its air in from its bottom or major, and blows it's exhaust air out of its FRONT. Otherwise, you will unnecessarily fill the case with hot air. Once installed, the graphics board bisects the width of the situation, dividing the vertical space in the case into a little prime portion and a major bottom portion. This acts to create a major chamber of air that is not circulated directly by the rear case fan (which is mounted low on the situation). This isn't good, but the resulting leading air pocket isn't entirely stagnant as cool air can be sucked in by the GPU fan by the rear case vent holes (the rear-metal spacers on the case have slots cut in them to allow air to move inward). My CPU fan is an ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 . The moment installed, this CPU fan faced the back of the situation with about 6 inches of clearance from the rear situation fan. Recall, with this non-standard case, air is drawn inwards by the back and exhausted by way of the front. The rear-situation fan and my CPU cooler fan had been off-set from a single one more so that about half the air from the case fan blows about the CPU cooler, half right into it. The CPU cooler fan moves air by means of its cooling fins and into the body of the case. This case air is driven out the front of the case by means of side vents in the front bezel by a second case fan. This second situation fan is front-mounted and is in reality sucking air from inside the situation and blowing it out the front.Following installation, my temps had been all reasonable. No troubles.In all, I am incredibly pleased with this situation. If you don't plan on acquiring a lot of internal elements and just want a clean, smaller little quality situation, you'll be very happy with this

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Sleek, compact, high good quality materials and construction, subtle styling, beautiful finish, simple access, front USB on prime, vents out the front, strong but not heavy, roomy interior, thoughtful style makes it effortless to install personal computer motherboard, and so on. Gah, I hate acquiring fingerprints on the satiny exterior LOL. I built a computer for a gentleman who has an in-desk cupboard for his Computer. He knew to leave the cupboard door open when the personal computer was operating (because I lectured him), but cooling was a difficulty with his former Computer. With this situation the cooling was substantially facilitated, and the USB on the top was also further handy for him. But it was so lovely he didn't want to hide it in the cupboard LOL.

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- Extremely sleek look- Nicely constructed- Light but sturdy- Unusual layout provides alot of internal room for a comparatively tiny case - The prime port cover is kind of low-cost and crummy in its design: the hinge sticks up in an unattractive manner rather of becoming flush with the unit- Not a con for me, since I don't run hot elements, but the airflow is in all probability not the greatest because it is a nearly completely enclosed case and the fans have to push air towards the front and out of the vent holes around the edges of the front panel- Typical good quality included fans; I will replace them with ultra quiet high good quality ones ones at my personal expense, but I expected that going in at this price If the prime port cover had been much more sophisticated, this situation would be flawless, and it's unfortunate to have its perfection marred by a thing so trivial. But a fantastic case nonetheless.

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Looks good, a lot of space in such a little case. Plastic front panel. The panel doesn't close all the way or line up correct against the rest of the situation. Also its a discomfort to line up the bay drives and stuff to the front panel so that it looks very good. If you do not line up the bay drives to the front panel won't attach back properly. Good case for the cost, I just wish Lian Li did not use plastic at all in the situation even if they charged some much more.

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Great Smaller Situation, Inverted motherboard set up genuinely enables hot air to escape away from cpu to the top.Front mounted psu and inverted air flow makes it possible for case to save space. As with all lian li cases, construct top quality is superb and created with outstanding excellent. Light weight little and capable of fitting complete ATX boards and even the biggest video cards on the industry such as the gtx285. (little cramped but nonetheless fits)Little foot print looks good. Little on the pricey side but you pay for high quality I would advise getting a Modular power supply or else your cable management will be a nightmare.

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exclusive setup with power provide in the front and the air goes from back to front with two 120mm fans. with psu in front, the situation has a shorter profile and theres lots of area to perform with the motherboard. this case is particularly light, front panel on top, stunning style. have to take off front panel to get to power supply switch. smudges and scratches very easily, lightweight design tends to make for less noise insulation. a top back fan could straight feed or exhaust a video card.

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This is one particular of the ideal circumstances I have ever owned - the layout is basic and uncomplicated to function with - but the most striking is the material, which is extremely sturdy but at the identical time the lightest situation I have ever owned. For it's small size it surprisingly fits everything required like these dual SLI monsters that numerous people are installing. One particular of the cables had a tie wrapped about it in a quite challenging to reach spot If you're not interested in a light show and want something durable and pragmatic, then get this case

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- Great form factor.- Aluminum with a quite sophisticated finish.- Leading USB/audio ports (this is truly tricky to discover)- Great airflow. Comes with 2 120mm close to silent fans.This has been my new preferred situation. I had the Lian Li ATX tower version of this for a prior create, but that thing was just huge. I loved that case, but I by no means required something that big. This is it's tiny brother without the front swinging door.As a reference point, this case is about as tall and lengthy as a 23" monitor stand-mounted. As other people talked about, it will demand some planning for cable management. The energy provide mounts to the bottom-front of the situation, and there is a specific power cable that runs along the bottom to enable it to still be plugged into the back.As others said, your energy switch is therefor hidden behind the front bezel. This just pops off though so it's actually not a major difficulty.The finish on these case does like to show finger prints. Though most folks are hugging their laptop or computer at night, I don't believe it's truly an issue soon after the initial build.

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Specifically what I expected. This is one sexy beast.Also, the nerd in me giggles when I feel the air coming out the back rather than the front. Wants bezle for DVD and can't uncover 1. I knew this but I wanted to say it.The video card expels hot air that is then sucked up by the back fan... I contemplate this an inefficiency. Wish it were much easier to get additional LianLi stuff. I swear that their website tries to avoid sales....

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Fit my full size mobo, 8gb ram, corsair H70 cooler, and Eyefinity HD5870 with no problems whatsoever in size or cooling. You don't even have to take the 3.five" drive bays out. Some people today have complained about the cooling, but I have that monster card, CPU overclocked to Ӱk, and 2ghz RAM running S.T.A.L.K.E.R. CoP nonstop for hours with no issues whatsoever. If you are seeking for a smaller, compact case, you can not beat this None Adore it, fits all the big boy gear in a dainty box.