LIAN LI PC-G70B Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail

A great case

Reviewed By: Nerocon on 11/8/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

Pros: Very spacious, Tons of air to move, well designed layout, plenty of options for your configuration, comes with decent fans, front panel usb/audio cables are of decent length, sturdy for an aluminum case, very light as it uses only aluminum, no plastic or steel.

Cons: Some edges are pretty sharp, only decent fans, front panel usb/audio could of been a bit longer to ease cable management, no removable motherboard tray.

Other Thoughts: This is a large case, and with such you will need more air flow then a smaller case to move all that air. You have many choices of layout, either one power supply mounted at the top or the bottom, or you can go with two if you plan to water cool/TEC and want to offload from your main PSU. It is such a large case you could run triple loop water if you wanted too (all internal) You also have the choice to mount your HD's vertical or horizontal, or both. All in all a great case, I was surprised how sturdy it was, most aluminum only cases feel flimsy but this one is very solid.

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Awesome case

Reviewed By: Mosquito on 10/28/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year

Pros: Excellent design, classic look with out the blasted front door. I had an extended-ATX motherboard, and wanted a "Professional" looking case, nothing with all these flashy bells and whistles. Perfect.

Dual PSU bays is nice when you need added power, and still have a nice PSU you don't want (or need other that for Watts) to replace.

Removable HDD rack is a plus (underneath is a nice place to hide wires from a bottom mounted PSU)

Sturdy for the most part, nice aluminum finish.

HDD Fan is nice.

Cons: As mentioned previously, side air duct isn't very conducive to fan replacement, though with a dremel I managed to make the screw channels large enough to accommodate a replacement.

If you don't look at the spec sheet, this is rather large.

CPU fan duct only covered about 60% of my second CPU's heatsink (I have since put fans on the otherwise passive heatsinks)

Airflow behind 5.25" bays not the best

Other Thoughts: I have a pair of PC P&C 610W power supplies in this case with room to spare with wires. Cable management is excellent in this case.

You can replace the front hard drive fan with a Scythe UltraKAZE fan (it's thicker than most) and there's just enough room to get it in there.

System:
Dual Xeon 2.66GHz w/HT on an Extended-ATX board
4GB ECC FBDIMM
5xSeagate 750GB SATA's in RAID5 via 3ware card
1xSeagate 320GB IDE
passivly cooled ATI 2400HD (not a gamming rig obviously)
TV Tuner
3ware RAID card.

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Reviewed By: Dark Indy on 10/21/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Large. Easily fits the SLI, water cooling, and two PSU I needed for my setup. Clean look. Runs cool and very quiet with the three 120 fans.

Cons: The front bezel is not grounded to anything on the case. So when I touch it before grounding myself to the case, it causes my computer to turn off. I had to add a grounding strap to it and the case.

Other Thoughts: Lian Li has some accessories to let you mod this, but good luck finding a retailer that still caries them. It looks like this is the "old" model, as they do not even list it on Lian Li's web page. Make sure you have room at your desk, this thing is very tall.

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